In the past decade, the use of soft, deformable materials has gained widespread interest due to their potential to carry out tasks in unstructured environments, such as grasping or manipulating objects with a wide variety of shapes and sizes, locomotion in irregular terrains, and enabling safe and flexible interactions between humans and robots. This emerging research field, generally known as soft robotics, also pushes the boundaries of visionary research topics, such as self-growing and self-healing robotic systems.

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软机器人：迄今为止的旅程和未来的挑战[TC Spotlight]

在过去的十年中，柔软，可变形的材料因其在非结构化环境中执行任务的潜力而引起了广泛的兴趣，例如在各种结构和大小的物体上抓握或操纵物体，在不规则地形中移动以及使人与机器人之间安全，灵活的交互。这个新兴的研究领域通常称为软机器人，它也突破了有远见的研究主题的边界，例如自我成长和自我修复的机器人系统。