Highlighted News
* IEEE ICRA 2015 Workshop on Soft robotics: Actuation, integration, and applications – Blending research perspectives for a leap forward in soft robotics technology
Date: May 30th, 2015
Poster abstracts and Live Demos submission deadline: March 2nd, 2015
Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2015
* The 2015 Prize for Contributions in Soft Robotics:
The Soft Robotics Toolkit team is delighted to announce the 2015 Prize for Contributions in Soft Robotics. The $5,000 prize is intended to support and promote research that advances the field of soft robotics. Researchers are invited to submit original work to the Soft Robotics Toolkit website in order to be considered for the award. An international panel of expert judges will evaluate the entries and the winners will be announced on July 15th. For more details, please see this link.
* Soft Robotics Week:
Soft Robotics Week will be held on April 13-17, 2015, in Livorno, Italy.
Two major events will take place: (1) Joint School on “Applications and Frontiers of Soft Robotics”- April 13-17, including the SMART-E Technical Skills Workshop and the RoboSoft Spring School (2) RoboSoft Plenary Meeting – April 15-16, 2015
The SMART-E Technical Skills Workshop and the RoboSoft Spring School merge together in a unique Joint School on “Applications and Frontiers of Soft Robotics” co-organized by the SMART-E Initial Training Network and the RoboSoft Coordination Action.
New Videos
* A low-friction passive fluid transmission and fluid-tendon soft actuator, scientific result was presented in Adv. Funct. Mater.
Published Journal Articles
* Related review:
- Artificial skin and tactile sensing for socially interactive robots: A review (Robot. Auton. Syst., Jan. 2015)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Ultra-fast escape maneuver of an octopus-inspired robot (Bioinspir. Biomim., Feb. 2015)
- Template for robust soft-body crawling with reflex-triggered gripping (Bioinspir. Biomim., Feb. 2015)
- A new torsion control mechanism induced by blood circulation in dragonfly wings (Bioinspir. Biomim., Feb. 2015),
- Force measurements of flexible tandem wings in hovering and forward flights (Bioinspir. Biomim., Feb. 2015)
- Large-amplitude undulatory swimming near a wall (Bioinspir. Biomim., Feb. 2015)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Flexible and stretchable fabric-based tactile sensor (Robot. Auton. Syst., Jan. 2015)
- Tactile surface classification for limbed robots using a pressure sensitive robot skin (Bioinspir. Biomim., Feb. 2015),
- Bio-inspired flow sensor from printed PEDOT: PSS micro-hairs (Bioinspir. Biomim., Feb. 2015)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- A unified system identification approach for a class of pneumatically-driven soft actuators (Robot. Auton. Syst., Jan. 2015)
- Ultrafast all-Polymer electrically tunable silicone lenses (Adv. Funct. Mater., Jan. 2015)
- Synthesis and analysis of soft parallel robots comprised of active constraints (J. Mechanisms Robotics, Feb. 2015)
* Soft robot application:
- Stronger, smarter, softer: Next-generation wearable robots (IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag., Dec. 2014)
- XPED2: A passive exoskeleton with artificial tendons (IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag., Dec. 2014)
- Tissue removal inside the beating heart using a robotically delivered metal MEMS tool (Int. J. Robot. Res., Feb. 2015)
* Morphological computation, morphological change, self-organization:
- Self-soldering connectors for modular robots (IEEE Trans. Robot., Dec. 2014)
- A would-be nervous system made from a slime mold (Artif. Life, Dec. 2014)
- A bioinspired multi-modal flying and walking robot (Bioinspir. Biomim., Jan. 2015)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- A strain-absorbing design for tissue–machine interfaces using a tunable adhesive gel (Nat. Commun., Dec. 2015)
- Electronic dura mater for long-term multimodal neural interfaces (Science, Jan. 2015)
Popular Articles
- Tiny soft robotic hands with magnetic nanoparticles could improve cancer diagnostics, drug delivery (Kurzweil AI, Jan. 2015)
- Robot looks like a fish to ride with marine life (Phys.org, Jan. 2015)
- Skin-based generators scavenge muscle motion to power wearables (IEEE Spectrum, Jan. 2015)
- These inflatable pouch motors will make building robots as easy as using stickers (IEEE Spectrum, Jan. 2015)
- Flying, walking vampire bat robot is back (IEEE Spectrum, Jan. 2015)
- Flexible 3D graphene supercapacitors may power portables and wearables (Kurzweil AI, Feb. 2015)