Soft robots are valued for compliance, allowing safe operation around humans.
However, this compliance often results in lower mechanical efficiency, limiting payload capacity, workspace, and motion accuracy.
We aim to overcome traditional limitations by developing a muscular-skeletal manipulator.
By integrating rigid skeletons with soft artificial muscles, we can enhance the mechanical efficiency of soft robots.
A key challenge is to create energy-efficient artificial muscles that can be seamlessly integrated with rigid skeletons.