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Review: Textile-based soft robotics for physically challenged individuals

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Due to the rapid advancements in the human–robot interface, soft robotics is getting attention in recent times. Conventional robots or robotic devices are not compatible with being used for internal application of the patient’s body even outer applications are also inhibited due to lack of flexibility, heavyweight, and less motion creation. As physically challenged persons require different degree of comfortability and flexibility in their everyday work or therapy, textile-based soft robots have diverse advantages including safety, easiness to use, and proper deformability to assist them. Any robotic system for rehabilitation of the impaired patients is composed of three different units of sensing, actuation, and controlling. The accommodation of these three units in conventional robotic systems makes the device heavy, rigid, and mechanically less functional. Textile materials have a higher level of inherent and programmable properties regarding physical and chemical structure, weight, durability, and deformability. Leveraging textile structures, many efforts have already been done for the fabrication of soft robots. This review will discuss the present scenario of textile-based soft actuators that are made to assist physically challenged individuals. Materials, fabrication methods, outcomes of the devices, requirement specific applications of soft robotics for physically challenged individuals have been discussed. Finally, we suggest some future directions for textile-based soft robots addressing some challenges in this field.

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Zannat, A., Uddin, M.N., Mahmud, S.T. et al. Review: Textile-based soft robotics for physically challenged individuals. J Mater Sci 58, 12491–12536 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-023-08799-4

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