Announcements
- Recording for the latest Soft Robotics Debate: ”Special Issue: Leveraging Advancements in Smart Materials Science (an ICRA 2022 Workshop)”
- Upcoming Workshops
- Computational Design of Soft Robots (IROS, 23.10.2022)
- 5th Workshop on Proximity Perception – Towards Next-Generation Multi-Modal Sensing in Soft Structures (IROS, 23.10.2022)
- Large-scale robotic skin: Perception, Interaction, and Control (IROS, 23.10.2022)
- Soft Robots for Humanity (IROS, 27.10.2022)
- Special Issues
- Summer School “Deformations in Robotics” (July 4-8 2022)
Vacancies
Featured Videos
- Lip-Inspired Passive Jamming Gripper (IEEE Spectrum, Apr 2022)
- PneuBots: Modular Inflatables for Playful Exploration of Soft Robotics (IEEE Spectrum, Apr 2022)
- Novel Tensegrity Robot Driven by Thin Artificial Muscles (IEEE Spectrum, Apr 2022)
- Wearable assistive robotics with integrated sensing (IEEE Spectrum, May 2022)
- Reimagining Robots to be Smaller, Softer and Safer (IEEE Spectrum, Jun 2022)
- Cephalopod-Inspired Robot Capable of Cyclic Jet Propulsion Through Shape Change (IEEE Spectrum, Jun 2022)
- An Electromagnetic Soft Robot that Carries its Own Magnet (The Faboratory at Yale University, Jul 2022)
- Malleable Robots: Reconfigurable Robotic Arms with Continuum Links of Variable Stiffness (Imperial REDS Lab, Jun 2022)
- What is Soft Robotics? Lets understand it in the easiest way! (Afaque Manzoor YouTube, Jul 2022)
Featured Articles
Views and Reviews
- Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review of Design, Fabrication, Modeling, Sensing, Control and Applications (IEEE Access, June 2022)
- Advances and future outlooks in soft robotics for minimally invasive marine biology (Science Robotics, May 2022)
- The Machines from Our Future (MIT Press, May 2022)
- Editorial: Living machines: from biological models to soft machines (Bioinspir. Biomim, Apr 2022)
- Decade of bio-inspired soft robots: a review (Smart Mater. June 2022)
New Materials, Actuators & Stiffening Methods
- Hydrogel-based strong and fast actuators by electroosmotic turgor pressure (Science, Apr 2022)
- Neuron-Inspired Soft Robot Teams and Their Non-Contact Electric Signal Transmission Based on Electromagnetic Induction (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Electroactive Polymer-Based Soft Actuator with Integrated Functions of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Motion and Perception (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- A Gas–Ribbon-Hybrid Actuated Soft Finger with Active Variable Stiffness (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Harnessing the Multistability of Kresling Origami for Reconfigurable Articulation in Soft Robotic Arms (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- A Novel Spider-Inspired Rotary-Rolling Diaphragm Actuator with Linear Torque Characteristic and High Mechanical Efficiency (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- A Novel Jamming Structure With Interlocking Mechanism Towards Applications in Wearable Robots (IEEE RA-L, Apr 2022)
- Design and Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Soft Actuators for Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Device (IEEE RA-L, Apr 2022)
- Simple and Scalable Soft Actuation Through Coupled Inflatable Tubes (IEEE Access, Apr 2022)
- A Multi-Segmented Soft Finger Using Snap-Through Instability of a Soft Valve With a Slit (IEEE RA-L, June 2022)
- Untethered small-scale magnetic soft robot with programmable magnetization and integrated multifunctional modules (Science Advances, June 2022)
- Wireless soft millirobots for climbing three-dimensional surfaces in confined spaces (Science Advances, May 2022)
- Locally controllable magnetic soft actuators with reprogrammable contraction-derived motions (Science Advances, Jun 2022)
- Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling (SoRo Journal, May 2022)
- Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method (SoRo Journal, May 2022)
- 3D Printed Acoustically Programmable Soft Microactuators (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
- Finite-Time Contraction Control of a Ring-Shaped Soft Pneumatic Actuator Mimicking Gastric Pathologic Motility Conditions (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
- Sensing, Actuating, and Interacting Through Passive Body Dynamics: A Framework for Soft Robotic Hand Design (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
- Development of the Ultralight Hybrid Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Modelling and optimization (PLoS ONE, Apr 2022)
- Soft fabric muscle based on thin diameter SMA springs (Smart Mater. Struct, Apr 2022)
- Effects of soft and hard magnetic particles on the mechanical performance of ultra-soft magnetorheological elastomers (Smart Matter. Struct, May 2022)
- An Electromagnetic Soft Robot that Carries its Own Magnet (IEEE RoboSoft, Apr 2022)
- Design and Study of Scissor-Mechanism-Based Pneumatic Actuator With a Characteristic of Bidirectional Contraction (IEEE TMECH, May 2022)
- Monolithic Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Hydrogels for Bioinspired Soft Robots Fabrication (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
Sensing, Flexible Electronic & Skins
- 3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- An Electronic Skin Strain Sensor for Adaptive Angle Calculation (IEEE, May 2022)
- Paper-Based Piezoresistive Force Encoder for Soft Robotic Applications (IEEE Sensors, June 2022)
- A biomimetic elastomeric robot skin using electrical impedance and acoustic tomography for tactile sensing (Science Robotics, Jun 2022)
- Bioinspired soft electroreceptors for artificial precontact somatosensation (Science Advances, May 2022)
- Neuro-inspired electronic skin for robots (Science Robotics, Jun 2022)
- Integrated stretchable pneumatic strain gauges for electronics-free soft robots (Nature, June 2022)
- Artificial Whisker Sensor with Undulated Morphology and Self-Spread Piezoresistors for Diverse Flow Analyses (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability (SoRo Journal, May 2022)
- Design of a Novel Sensing Method for a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuator-Driven 2-Degrees of Freedom Parallel Joint (SoRo Journal, May 2022)
- A direct ink writing based fabric-embedded soft sensor for improved durability and sewability (Smart Mater. Struct., May 2022)
- Self-healing sensorized soft robots (Materials Today Electronics, May 2022)
- hysteresis conducting polymer hydrogel strain sensors for soft machines (Adv. Mater., Jun 2022)
Fabrication Techniques & Hardware Toolkits
- Sensitivity Analysis for 3D Printed Soft Pneumatic Actuators from 2D Origami Patterns to Functional Systems (IEEE, April 2022)
- Out-of-Plane Soft Lithography for Soft Pneumatic Microactuator Arrays (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
- Toward the Development of Large-Scale Inflatable Robotic Arms Using Hot Air Welding (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
Locomotion, Swimming & Flying
- Bioinspired Amphibious Origami Robot with Body Sensing for Multimodal Locomotion (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
- Propulsion optimization of a jellyfish-inspired robot based on a nonintrusive reduced-order model with proper orthogonal decomposition (Bioinspir. Biomim, May 2022)
- Corrigendum: Biologically inspired swimming robotic frog based on pneumatic soft actuators (Bioinspir. Biomim. May 2022)
- Research on Target Tracking for Robotic Fish Based on Low-Cost Scarce Sensing Information Fusion (IEEE RA-L, Apr 2022)
- Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces (Sci. Robot., May 2022) – Video
- Fast Aquatic Swimmer Optimization with Differentiable Projective Dynamics and Neural Network Hydrodynamic Models (ICML Mar 2022)
- SMORS: A soft multirotor UAV for multimodal locomotion and robust interaction (IEEE ICRA, Mar 2022)
Manipulation & Grasping
- A Soft and Bistable Gripper with Adjustable Energy Barrier for Fast Capture in Space (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Leaf-Like Origami with Bistability for Self-Adaptive Grasping Motions (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Multimode Grasping Soft Gripper Achieved by Layer Jamming Structure and Tendon-Driven Mechanism (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Versatile Soft Robot Gripper Enabled by Stiffness and Adhesion Tuning via Thermoplastic Composite (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Inflatable Particle-Jammed Robotic Gripper Based on Integration of Positive Pressure and Partial Filling (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Sequential contact-based adaptive grasping for robotic hands (Sage Robotics, May 2022)
- Design and kinematic of a dexterous bioinspired elephant trunk robot with variable diameter (Bioinspir. Biomim. June 2022)
Biomimicry & Bioinspiration
- LM-Jelly: Liquid Metal Enabled Biomimetic Robotic Jellyfish (SoRo Journal, May 2022)
- Biomimicry in Microwave Photonic and Fiber Optic Sensors Embedded Soft Robotics (IEEE, Apr 2022)
- Bioinspired Multimodal Multipose Hybrid Fingers for Wide-Range Force, Compliant, and Stable Grasping (SoRo Journal, May 2022)
Soft Robot Applications
- Entrainment During Human Locomotion Using a Lightweight Soft Robotic Hip Exosuit (SR-HExo) (IEEE RA-L, Apr 2022)
- Analytical Modeling of the Interaction Between Soft Balloon-Like Actuators and Soft Tubular Environment for Gastrointestinal Inspection (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Entrainment During Human Locomotion Using a Lightweight Soft Robotic Hip Exosuit (SR-HExo) (IEEE, Apr 2022)
- Soft Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventions: Advances and Outlook (IEEE, May 2022)
- Soft, Lightweight Wearable Robots to Support the Upper Limb in Activities of Daily Living: A Feasibility Study on Chronic Stroke Patients (IEEE Transactions, May 2022)
- A Soft Exosuit Assisting Hip Abduction for Knee Adduction Moment Reduction During Walking (IEEE RA-L, June 2022)
- Hydraulic Detrusor for Artificial Bladder Active Voiding (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
- Sigmoidal Auxiliary Tendon-Driven Mechanism Reinforcing Structural Stiffness of Hyper-Redundant Manipulator for Endoscopic Surgery (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
Theory: Learning, Modeling, & Control
- A Learning-Based Approach to Sensorize Soft Robots (SoRo Journal, May 2022)
- Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks (SoRo Journal, Apr 2022)
- Kinematic Control for Crossed-Fiber-Reinforced Soft Manipulator Using Sparse Bayesian Learning (IEEE, Apr 2022)
- Modeling the Locomotion of Articulated Soft Robots in Granular Medium (IEEE RA-L, May 2022)
- Simultaneous Motion Tracking and Joint Stiffness Control of Bidirectional Antagonistic Variable-Stiffness Actuators (IEEE RA-L, May 2022)
- Model-Based Eversion Control of Soft Growing Robots With Pneumatic Actuation (IEEE, May 2022)
- Physics-Informed Recurrent Neural Networks for Soft Pneumatic Actuators (IEEE RA-L, May 2022)
- Force/Torque-Sensorless Joint Stiffness Estimation in Articulated Soft Robots (IEEE RA-L, May 2022)
- Model-Based Contact Detection and Accommodation for Soft Bending Actuators: An Integrated Direct/Indirect Adaptive Robust Approach (IEEE RA-L, May 2022)
- Quasi-Static FEA Model for a Multi-Material Soft Pneumatic Actuator in SOFA (IEEE RA-L, June 2022)
- Geometrically-Exact Inverse Kinematic Control of Soft Manipulators With General Threadlike Actuators’ Routing (IEEE RA-L, June 2022)
- Nonlinear Dynamics Modeling and Fault Detection for a Soft Trunk Robot: An Adaptive NN-Based Approach (IEEE RA-L, June 2022)
- SSVEP-Based Brain Computer Interface Controlled Soft Robotic Glove for Post-Stroke Hand Function Rehabilitation (IEEE Transactions, June 2022)
- Learning-Based Approach for a Soft Assistive Robotic Arm to Achieve Simultaneous Position and Force Control (IEEE RA-L, June 2022)
- Finite element modeling of an origami-inspired delta mechanism with flexible components and joints (Sage, June 2022)
- Control-Oriented Models for Hyperelastic Soft Robots Through Differential Geometry of Curves (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
- Lattice-and-Plate Model: Mechanics Modeling of Physical Origami Robots (SoRo Journal, June 2022)
- Topology and Morphology Design of Spherically Reconfigurable Homogeneous Modular Soft Robots (SoRo Journal, July 2022)
- Finite element modeling and validation of a soft array of spatially coupled dielectric elastomer transducers (Smart Mater. Struct. June 2022)
- Kinematic modeling and characterization of soft parallel robots (IEEE T-RO, Jun 2022)
- Modeling and Control of an Omnidirectional Micro Aerial Vehicle Equipped with a Soft Robotic Arm (IEEE RoboSoft, Apr 2022)
- DeSKO: Stability-Assured Robust Control with a Deep Stochastic Koopman Operator (ICLR conf, May 2022)
- Adaptive Dynamic Sliding Mode Control of Soft Continuum Manipulators (IEEE ICRA, Mar 2022)
- Simplified dynamical model and experimental verification of an underwater hydraulic soft robotic arm (Smart Mater. Struct., June 2022)
Featured News Articles
- Robot made of sticky tape and metal powder could crawl on your organs (NewScientist, Jul 2022)
- Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces (Science magazine, NewScientist, UK News Today, May 2022)
- Gallium: The liquid metal that could transform soft electronics (Knowable Magazine, Mar 2022)
- Soft assistive robotic wearables benefit from rapid design tool (Plant Eng., May 2022)