Soft Robotics aims at providing state of art on research and potential approaches of soft robotics. It particularly challenges the traditional thinking of engineers, as the confluence of technologies, ranging from new materials, sensors, actuators and production techniques to new design tools, will make it possible to create new systems whose structures are almost completely made of soft materials, which bring about entirely new functions and behaviors, similar in many ways to natural systems. This is a huge research topic, “hot and with a huge potential due to new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies.
1. Introduction - p. ix 2. Chapter One: Soft microrobotics - p. 1 3. Chapter Two: Advances in printing technologies for soft robotics devices applications - p. 45 4. Chapter Three: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for sensing - p. 91 5. Chapter Four: Hydrogels for sensing applications - p. 123 6. Chapter Five: Integrated microsystems for bridging multiscale elements - p. 157 7. Chapter Six: Smart sensors for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their possible application as end of service life indicator (ESLI) for respirator cartridges - p. 226 8. Chapter Seven: Additive manufacturing of biomaterials - p. 238 9. Conclusions - p. 260 10. Index - p. 260
Soft Robotics aims at providing state of art on research and potential approaches of soft robotics. It particularly challenges the traditional thinking of engineers, as the confluence of technologies, ranging from new materials, sensors, actuators and production techniques to new design tools, will make it possible to create new systems whose structures are almost completely made of soft materials, which bring about entirely new functions and behaviors, similar in many ways to natural systems. This is a huge research topic, “hot and with a huge potential due to new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies.
1. Introduction - p. ix 2. Chapter One: Soft microrobotics - p. 1 3. Chapter Two: Advances in printing technologies for soft robotics devices applications - p. 45 4. Chapter Three: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for sensing - p. 91 5. Chapter Four: Hydrogels for sensing applications - p. 123 6. Chapter Five: Integrated microsystems for bridging multiscale elements - p. 157 7. Chapter Six: Smart sensors for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their possible application as end of service life indicator (ESLI) for respirator cartridges - p. 226 8. Chapter Seven: Additive manufacturing of biomaterials - p. 238 9. Conclusions - p. 260 10. Index - p. 260
