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. 2023 Aug 2;17(16):15277–15307. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c04089

Figure 12.

Figure 12

Various applications of soft robots with sensing capability. (a) Sea-anemone-inspired bellows gripper that can measure velocity of water and self-regulate the gripper length for stable anchoring. Reproduced with permission from ref (172). Copyright 2021 Elsevier. (b) Soft gripper equipped with a TENG sensor and running on a machine learning algorithm for smart sorting of objects in the warehouse. Top left: Design of the soft gripper with 15 embedded sensors. Middle: Variation of voltage signal across the 15 channels during grasping of various objects. Bottom: Potential applications of soft robot with TENG sensor. Reproduced with permission from ref (176). Copyright 2020 The Authors under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, published by Springer Nature. (c) Soft gripper with a heat sensor for health monitoring. Reproduced with permission from ref (139). Copyright 2022 The Authors under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, published by Springer Nature. (d) Soft robotic hand with embedded tactile sensors for error detection and recovery from passive perception. Temporal data from sparse tactile sensors are used to predict and perform adaptive grasping before the failure. Reproduced with permission from ref (177). Copyright 2023 The Authors under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, published by Wiley-VCH GmbH. (e) Elephant-trunk-inspired arm with a soft gripper for smart harvesting of fruits. Reproduced with permission from ref (150). Copyright 2022 The Authors under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, published by Springer Nature. (f) Deep-sea exploration with soft robots. Top left: Gloves fitted with soft sensors for controlling the pressure within the gripper. Middle: Deep-sea exploration robot. Bottom: Design of the soft gripper and bending and rotary modules of the robot. Reproduced with permission from ref (178). Copyright 2018 The Authors under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, published by Springer Nature. (g) Soft robotic gloves with sensors for rehabilitation of patients with impaired mobility of hand. Reproduced with permission from ref (179). Copyright 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA, Weinheim.