Design and fabrication of a shape-morphing soft pneumatic actuator: Soft robotic pad

Silicone-based soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) is one of the key interests in soft robotic research. Currently, most of the SPAs bear a similar one-dimensional rod-like shape, regardless of their design and fabrication. There are few prototypes of SPAs with two-dimensional initial shapes, however, they are basically the linear combination of several one-dimensional SPAs. This paper presents a new class of silicone-based SPA named soft robotic pad...