Highlighted News
* Call for papers: Special issue on “Soft Robotics based on Electroactive Polymers” (Frontiers in Robotics and AI). Deadlines: 22 March 2019 (Abstract), 20 July 2018 (Manuscript).
* December issue of Soft Robotics is already online
Published Journal Articles
* Related review:
- An overview on principles for energy efficient robot locomotion (Front. Robot. AI, Dec 2018)
- Ten robotics technologies of the year (Science Robotics, Jan 2019)
- Energy autonomous electronic skin (npj Flexible Electronics, Jan 2019)
- Reprogrammable recovery and actuation behaviour of shape-memory polymers
(Nat. Rev. Mater., Jan 2019)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- An anthropomorphic soft skeleton hand exploiting conditional models for piano playing (Science Robotics, Dec 2018)
- Elasticity versus hyperelasticity considerations in quasistatic modeling of a soft finger-like robotic appendage for real-time position and force estimation (Soft Robotics, Jan 2019)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Soft wall-climbing robots (Science Robotics, Dec 2018)
- Adaptive locomotion of artificial microswimmers (Science Advances, Jan 2019)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks (Science Robotics, Jan 2019)
- Model-based compensation of rate-dependent hysteresis in a piezoresistive strain sensor (IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., Jan 2019)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Electro-ribbon actuators and electro-origami robots (Science Robotics, Dec 2018)
- Snapping of elastic strips with controlled ends (Int. Journal of Solid and Structures, Dec 2018)
- A variable-stiffness tendril-like soft robot based on reversible osmotic actuation (Nat. Comun., Jan 2019)
- Reconfigurable shape-morphing dielectric elastomers using spatially varying electric fields
(Nat. Commun., Jan 2019) - Fast-response, stiffness-tunable soft actuator by hybrid multimaterial 3D printing (Adv. Funct. Mater., Jan 2019)
- Finite element modeling and design of a pneumatic braided muscle actuator with multi-functional capabilities (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Jan 2019)
- Biohybrid valveless pump-bot powered by engineered skeletal muscle (Proc Natl Acad Sci, Jan 2019)
- Realizing the potential of dielectric elastomer artificial muscles (Proc Natl Acad Sci, Feb 2019)
- High-precision tracking control of a soft dielectric elastomer actuator with inverse viscoelastic hysteresis compensation (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Feb 2019)
* Soft robot application:
- The challenges and achievements of experimental implementation of an active transfemoral prosthesis based on biological quasi-stiffness: The CYBERLEGs beta-prosthesis (Front. Neurorobotics, Dec 2018)
- Ingestible electronics for diagnostics and therapy (Nat. Rev. Mater., Jan 2019)
- Comparison of the human-exosuit interaction using ankle moment and ankle positive power inspired walking assistance (J. Biomech, Jan 2019)
- Sew-free anisotropic textile composites for rapid design and manufacturing of soft wearable robots (Extreme Mech Lett, Feb 2019)
* Embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- Evolving embodied intelligence from materials to machines (Nat. Mach. Intell., Jan 2019)
- Bifurcation-based embodied logic and autonomous actuation (Nat. Comun., Jan 2019)
Popular Articles
- Robot hand rocks a merry tune (New Atlas, Dec 2018)
- Micro-robots powered by chemistry grasp and creep (Nat. Highlights, Dec 2018)
- Skin advances for robots, humans (ASME, Jan 2019)
- Bots, britches, and bees (GatesNotes, Jan 2019)
- Researchers 3D print brainless smart objects with ’embodied logic’ (InterestingEngineering, Jan 2019)
- 3D printed, magnetic mesh “robots” float, bend and grab on demand (NewAtlas, Jan 2019)
- Medical micro-robots automatically change shape to swim through the body (New Atlas, Jan 2019)
- Soft exosuit for running (Wyss Institute, Feb 2019)