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physics.app-ph2018★ 501 cited
Leveraging Elastic instabilities for Amplified Performance: spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots
Yichao Tang, Yinding Chi, Jiefeng Sun +6
Soft machines typically exhibit slow locomotion speed and low manipulation strength because of intrinsic limitations of soft materials. Here, we present a generic design principle…
physics.app-ph2018★ 177 cited
Switchable Adhesion Actuator for Amphibious Climbing Soft Robot
Yichao Tang, Qiuting Zhang, Gaojian Lin +1
Climbing soft robots are of tremendous interest in both science and engineering due to their potential applications in intelligent surveillance, inspection, maintenance, and detect…
physics.app-ph2018
Design of Multifunctional Soft Doming Actuator for Soft Machines
Yichao Tang, Jie Yin
Bilayer bending based soft actuators are widely utilized in soft robotics for locomotion and object gripping. However, studies on soft actuators based on bilayer doming remain larg…