Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil—from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree.

Abstract: Soft actuators have shown strong potential in wearable devices, mobile robotics, and manipulators. This article presents a soft actuator driven by positive pressure, termed lateral pleated ...

When you picture different athletes – marathon runners, gymnasts and Olympic weightlifters, for example – you likely categorise them instinctively by their height, size and build. But what makes these ...

Abstract: This study applies the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) to estimate a contraction ratio of the McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) and to present ...