Abstract: Variable stiffness technologies have been widely adopted in soft robotics, also combining them with different actuation technologies and demonstrating the potential to increase the range of ...

Abstract: Piezoelectric actuators are widely utilized in many research and industrial fields, since they could achieve high positioning accuracy based on inverse piezoelectric effect. However, the ...

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