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  1. Vortex-Induced Torque in Grasping Soft Objects: Influence of Geometry and Pneumatic Parameters

    Nov 4, 2026Roman Mykhailyshyn, Tomohiro Motoda, Ivan Virgala +2Robotic GraspingDeformable Object Manipulation

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo 135-0064, Japan · Department of Industrial Automation and Mechatronics, Technical University of Košice, 04200 Košice, Slovak Republic · Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA +1

  2. Flap like a bat: Soft pneumatic wings for biomimetic ornithopters

    Oct 31, 2026Besetty Satyanarayana, Sirivelu Akhilesh, Bammidi Abhilash +1Aerial RoboticsBioinspired Robotics

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy, Hyderabad, 502285, Telangana State, India.

  3. FallGown: A Soft Pneumatic Wearable Device for Fall Prevention

    Oct 8, 2026Megan C. Coram, Haoran Lei, Steven H. Collins +4Pneumatic ActuationAssistive Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. · General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

  4. A Reconfigurable Fabric Based Pneumatic Actuator with Button Fastened Constraint Modules for Multi Mode Actuation

    Oct 8, 2026Kentaro Kimura, Hiroki Ishizuka, Yusuke Sakaue +2Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan

  5. Coupled State-Space Modelling, Control, and Policy Distillation for Hybrid Rigid-Pneumatic Manipulators

    Sep 24, 2026Alan Royce Gabriel Samuel, Pulkit VermaRobotic ControlPneumatic Actuation

    Department of Data Sciences and AI, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  6. A Wearable Pneumatic Device for Continuous, Closed-Loop, Bidirectional Tactile Interaction

    Sep 1, 2026Cosima du Pasquier, Aliyah Smith, Serin Huber +5Tactile SensingRobot Teleoperation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  7. Task-space model-based control of pneumatic soft actuators

    Aug 27, 2026Nithin S. Kumar, Joshua Gaston, D. Caleb Rucker +1Robotic ControlSoft Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 · Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996

  8. Control-Oriented Learning for Dynamic Tracking and Stability Analysis of Soft Pneumatic Actuators

    Aug 25, 2026Nithin S. Kumar, Eric J. BarthExtended Dynamic Mode DecompositionSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37215

  9. Pneumatic Units for Logic-based Sequential Excitation (PULSE) in Wearable Haptic Devices

    Aug 20, 2026Jessica Healey, Anoush Sepehri, Michael T. Tolley +1Pneumatic ActuationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    University of California, San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093, USA

  10. A Task-Agnostic Control Strategy for Dynamic Assistance with Pneumatically Actuated Soft Exosuits

    Aug 18, 2026Anoush Sepehri, Zachary Huang, Raymond de Callafon +2Assistive RoboticsUpper-Limb Exoskeletons

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, USA

  11. Manufacturing Complex Airtight Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Robotics: Process Evaluation and Optimization

    Aug 13, 2026Mohammed AbboodiManufacturingSoft Pneumatic Actuators

  12. Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Based on the Drawstring Principle

    Jul 21, 2026Chendong Liu, Dapeng Yang, Yiming Dai +2Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.

  13. Selective Unit-Cell Actuation in Lattice Structures for Distributed Morphology in Soft Robots

    Jun 17, 2026Trevor Exley, Altair Coutinho, Lucia BeccaiPneumatic ActuationSoft Robotics

    Soft BioRobotics Perception Lab of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova 16163, Italy

  14. Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Robotics: A Motion-Based Review of Actuation Mechanisms and Performance Trade-offs

    May 24, 2026Mohammed AbboodiSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

  15. Analytical and Experimental Force Analysis of a Soft Linear Pneumatic Actuator

    May 21, 2026Mohammed AbboodiSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

  16. Topology-Optimized Pneumatic Soft Actuator: Design and Experimental Validation

    May 19, 2026Sumit Mehta, Konstantinos PouliosTopology OptimizationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

  17. BiPneu: Design and Control of a Bipolar-Pressure Pneumatic System for Soft Robots

    May 12, 2026Yu Mei, Xinyu Zhou, Vedant Naik +2Robotic ControlRobust Control

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  18. A Compact Peristaltic Pump Based on Magneto-Elastic Hysteresis with Single Pneumatic Control

    Apr 23, 2026Minjo Park, Metin SittiPneumatic ActuationSoft Robotics

    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent System, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany · School of Medicine and College of Engineering, Kocſ University, İstanbul, Rumelifeneri Yolu 34450, Türkiye

  19. A Reconfigurable Pneumatic Joint Enabling Localized Selective Stiffening and Shape Locking in Vine-Inspired Robots

    Apr 17, 2026Ayodele James Oyejide, Ustaz A. Yaqub, Samir Erturk +2Pneumatic ActuationRobotics

    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kadir Has University, Cibali, Istanbul, Türkiye · Department of Computer Engineering, Kadir Has University, Cibali, Istanbul, Türkiye · Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  20. Elastomeric Strain Limitation for Design of Soft Pneumatic Actuators

    Apr 3, 2026Gregory M. CampbellSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania

  21. A soft and lightweight fabric-based pneumatic interface for multimodal fingertip tactile feedback

    Apr 1, 2026Rui Chen, Daniele Leonardis, Antonio FrisoliPneumatic ActuationHaptic Feedback

    Institute of Mechanical Intelligence, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna (SSSA), 56127 Pisa, Italy.

  22. Design, Modelling and Characterisation of a Miniature Fibre-Reinforced Soft Bending Actuator for Endoluminal Interventions

    Mar 25, 2026Xiangyi Tan, Aoife McDonald-Bowyer, Danail Stoyanov +1Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    All authors are with the UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

  23. Inductance-Based Force Self-Sensing in Fiber-Reinforced Pneumatic Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators

    Mar 19, 2026Yunsong Zhang, Tianlin Li, Mingyang Yang +1Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    Robotics and Control Laboratory, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, and the State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  24. Development of Low-Cost and Bidirectional Syringe Pumps for Soft Robotics Applications

    Mar 17, 2026Krishamsu Subedi Chhetri, Aryan Mayor, Elise Corbin +2Pneumatic ActuationSoft Robotics

    Evolutionary Robotics Laboratory Department of Computer Science, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA

  25. Thermopneumatic Pixels: Fast, Localized, Robust, Low-Voltage Touch Feedback

    Mar 17, 2026Max Linnander, Yon VisellHaptic FeedbackPneumatic Actuation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106 USA

  26. Multi-Mode Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Driven by Hybrid Positive-Negative Pressure

    Mar 16, 2026Siyuan Feng, Ruoyu Feng, Shuguang LiPneumatic ActuationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. · Beijing Key Laboratory of Transformative High-end Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.

  27. Dynamic Properties and Motion Reproducibility of a Compact Pneumatically Actuated Humanoid Upper Body for Data-Driven Control

    Mar 16, 2026Hiroshi Atsuta, Hisashi Ishihara, Minoru AsadaRobotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, The University of Osaka, Suita, Osaka, Japan · College of Arts and Design, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan · International Professional University of Technology in Osaka, Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan +1

  28. Geometry-based pneumatic actuators for soft robotics

    Feb 27, 2026Rui Chen, Daniele Leonardis, Domenico Chiaradia +1Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsPneumatic Actuation

    Institute of Mechanical Intelligence, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna (SSSA), 56127 Pisa, Italy.

  29. Physics-Embedded Neural ODEs for Learning Antagonistic Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Dynamics

    Feb 27, 2026Xinyao Wang, Jonathan RealmutoPneumatic ActuationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

  30. Snapping Actuators with Asymmetric and Sequenced Motion

    Feb 20, 2026Xin Li, Ye Jin, Mohsen Jafarpour +2Pneumatic ActuationSoft Robotics