Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University, 305 River Ridge Parkway, San Marcos, TX 78666, United States of America.
Department of Biology, University of Scranton, 800 Linden Street, Scranton, PA 18510, United States of America.
Bioinspir Biomim. 2024 Nov 14;20(1). doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/ad8b8d.
Over the last two decades, robotics engineering has witnessed rapid growth in the exploration and development of soft robots. Soft robots are made of deformable materials with mechanical properties or other features that resemble biological structures. These robots are often inspired by living organisms or mimic their locomotion, such as crawling and swimming. This paper aims to assist researchers in robotics and engineering to design soft robots incorporating or inspired by biological systems with a more informed perspective on biological models and functions. We address the characteristics of fluidic soft robots inspired by or mimicking biological examples, establish a method to categorize soft robots from a functional biological perspective, and provide a wider range of organisms to inspire the development of soft robotics. The actuation mechanisms in bioinspired and biomimetic soft robotics would benefit from a clearer understanding of the underlying principles, organization, and function of biological structures.
在过去的二十年中，机器人工程在探索和开发软体机器人方面取得了快速发展。软体机器人由具有机械性能或其他类似于生物结构特征的可变形材料制成。这些机器人通常受到生物的启发，或者模仿它们的运动方式，例如爬行和游泳。本文旨在为机器人和工程领域的研究人员提供帮助，使他们能够设计出结合或受生物系统启发的软体机器人，从而更深入地了解生物模型和功能。我们介绍了受生物启发或模仿生物的流体软体机器人的特点，建立了从功能生物学角度对软体机器人进行分类的方法，并提供了更广泛的生物体来激发软体机器人的发展。生物启发和仿生软体机器人的致动机制将受益于对生物结构的基本原理、组织和功能有更清晰的认识。
