ReviewSmart medicine2024
Pioneering healthcare with soft robotic devices: A review.
Review in Smart medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Deformation Driven Suction Cups: A Mechanics-Based Approach to Wearable Electronics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- A Review and Perspective of Techniques for Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound Acquisitions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Plant Robotics for Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Robots: Insights from Actuation Characteristics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
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- Robotic Horizons in Plastic Surgery: A Look Toward the Future.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- From Sensors to Care: How Robotic Skin Is Transforming Modern Healthcare-A Mini Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Recent applications of EEG-based brain-computer-interface in the medical field.Military Medical Research · 2025Review
- Hollow fiber-based strain sensors with desirable modulus and sensitivity at effective deformation for dexterous electroelastomer cylindrical actuator.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Article
- Pioneering healthcare with soft robotic devices: A review.Smart medicine · 2024Review
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Recent advancements in soft robotics have been emerging as an exciting paradigm in engineering due to their inherent compliance, safe human interaction, and ease of adaptation with wearable electronics. Soft robotic devices have the potential to provide innovative solutions and expand the horizons of possibilities for biomedical applications by bringing robots closer to natural creatures. In this review, we survey several promising soft robot technologies, including flexible fluidic actuators, shape memory alloys, cable-driven mechanisms, magnetically driven mechanisms, and soft sensors. Selected applications of soft robotic devices as medical devices are discussed, such as surgical intervention, soft implants, rehabilitation and assistive devices, soft robotic exosuits, and prosthetics. We focus on how soft robotics can improve the effectiveness, safety and patient experience for each use case, and highlight current research and clinical challenges, such as biocompatibility, long-term stability, and durability. Finally, we discuss potential directions and approaches to address these challenges for soft robotic devices to move toward real clinical translations in the future.
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