Materials, Actuators, and Sensors for Soft Bioinspired Robots

Biological systems can perform complex tasks with high compliance levels. This makes them a great source of inspiration for soft robotics. Indeed, the union of these fields has brought about bioinspired soft robotics, with hundreds of publications on novel research each year. This review aims to survey fundamental advances in bioinspired soft actuators and sensors with a focus on the progress between 2017 and 2020, providing a primer for the materials used in their design.

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Biological systems inspire advancements in soft robotics, leading to the development of bioinspired soft actuators and sensors; this review surveys the progress in these fields between 2017 and 2020, focusing on the materials used in their design.