“…This provides them with many advantages, such as greater ability to grasp objects (Pfeifer et al, 2012), increased conformability to a wide variety of objects and environments (Shen, 2016), and high deformability and capability to absorb energy (Kim et al, 2013). These soft robots are highly capable and diverse, including pneumatic grippers (Ilievski et al, 2011;Martinez et al, 2013;Maeder-York et al, 2014;Katzschmann et al, 2015;Galloway et al, 2016;Yeo et al, 2016), manipulators inspired by the octopus (Calisti et al, 2011;Cianchetti et al, 2011;Mazzolai et al, 2012), electroactive polymer grippers (Alici and Huynh, 2007), and granular jamming (Brown et al, 2010).…”