Potential future bottlenecks for soft robots and their corresponding solutions

Abstract This paper briefly introduces the current situation of soft robots. Then, through the analysis of the current situation, it is concluded that there are two bottlenecks for soft robots, which are material bottleneck and performance bottleneck. In terms of materials, a usable soft robot often requires multiple tasks at the same time, but soft robots lack materials that can meet the needs of multiple tasks at present. In terms of performance, soft robots are different from traditional robots. Soft robots have unlimited degrees of freedom, which will lead to the CPU processing a large amount of data. Therefore, this paper proposes to introduce the concept of robot group into soft robots and solve the problems existing in soft robots by using the characteristics of low CPU and low individual strength requirements of robot groups.