Highlighted News
* The latest issue (June 2017) of the Soft Robotics journal is already available.
* The dataset containing the CAD models for creating a RBO Hand is already available. Further information can be found here.
* Paper on Soft Robotics was a Finalist for the Best Systems Paper in Memory of Seth Teller at RSS 2017
New Videos
* Development of a deformation-driven rolling robot with a soft outer shell (June 2017)
* Harvard arthrobots (June 2017)
* Stanford researchers develop vine-like, growing robot (July 2017)
* Watch a robotic exoskeleton help a stroke patient walk (July 2017)
* Simulation of robot traversing curved surface (Aug. 2017)
Published Journal Articles
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- A geometry deformation model for braided continuum manipulators (Front. Robot. AI,, June 2017)
- A wet-tolerant adhesive patch inspired by protuberances in suction cups of octopi (Nature, June 2017)
- A soft multi-module manipulator with variable stiffness for minimally invasive surgery (Bioinspir. Biomim., June 2017)
- Index finger of a human-like robotic hand using thin soft muscles (IEEE RA-L, July 2017)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- A soft robot that navigates its environment through growth (Science Robotics, July 2017)
- Propulsion via flexible flapping in granular media (Phys. Rev. E, Jul 2017)
- Liquid metal amoeba with spontaneous pseudopodia formation and motion capability (Sci. Rep., Jul 2017)
- Long-legged hexapod giacometti robot using thin soft McKibben actuator (IEEE RA-L, July 2017)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- CNT-based sensor arrays for local strain measurements in soft pneumatic actuators (Int J Intell Robot, June 2017)
- Targeted feature recognition using mechanical spatial filtering with a low-cost compliant strain sensor (Sci. Rep., July 2017)
- The language of glove: Wireless gesture decoder with low-power and stretchable hybrid electronics (PLOS ONE, July 2017)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Feedback control of soft robot actuators via commercial flex bend sensors (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics , Aug. 2017)
* Soft robot application:
- Optimizing the power and energy consumption of powered prosthetic ankles with series and parallel elasticity (MEMAT, June 2017)
- Energetic analysis and optimization of a MACCEPA actuator in an ankle prosthesis (Auton Robots., June 2017)
- Bilateral, misalignment-compensating, full-DOF hip exoskeleton: Design and kinematic validation (Appl. Bionics Biomech., June 2017)
- Varying negative work assistance at the ankle with a soft exosuit during loaded walking (J Neuroeng Rehabil., June 2017)
- A soft robotic exosuit improves walking in patients after stroke (Sci. Transl. Med., July 2017)
- Continuous sweep versus discrete step protocols for studying effects of wearable robot assistance magnitude (J Neuroeng Rehabil., July 2017)
- Bilateral, misalignment-compensating, full-DOF hip exoskeleton: Design and kinematic validation (Appl Bionics Biomech., July 2017)
- Reducing circumduction and hip hiking during hemiparetic walking though targeted assistance of the paretic limb using a soft robotic exosuit (Am. J. Phys. Med. Rehabil., Aug. 2017)
* Soft robot fabrication, growing robot, self-healing robot:
- Designing toughness and strength for soft materials (Proc Natl Acad Sci, July 2017)
- Batch fabrication of customizable silicone-textile composite capacitive strain sensors for human motion tracking (Adv. Mater. Technologies, July 2017)
- A highly stretchable capacitive-based strain sensor based on metal deposition and laser rastering (Adv. Mater. Technologies, July 2017)
- Self-healing soft pneumatic robots (Science Robotics, Aug. 2017)
- An additive millimeter-scale fabrication method for soft biocompatible actuators and sensors (Adv. Mater. Technologies, Aug. 2017)
* Morphological computation, morphological change, self-organization:
- Evolutionary developmental robotics: Improving morphology and control of physical robots (Artif. Life., June 2017)
- Programmable deployment of tensegrity structures by stimulus-responsive polymers (Sci. Rep., June 2017)
Conference Articles
- Localized differential sensing of soft deformable surfaces (ICRA, June 2017)
- Variable Stiffness Link (VSL): Toward inherently safe robotic manipulators (ICRA, June 2017)
- Variable stiffness adaptation to mitigate system failure in inflatable robots (ICRA, June 2017)
- Multi-objective design optimization of a soft, pneumatic robot (ICRA, June 2017)
- Motion planning for mobile robots using inverse kinematics branching (ICRA, June 2017)
- A physics based model for twisted and coiled actuator (ICRA, June 2017)
- Mechanics of continuum manipulators, a comparative study of five methods with experiments (TAROS, July 2017)
Popular Articles
- Flexible, self-healing wearable device harvests energy from body heat (New Atlas, June 2017)
- Graphene makes mini moisture-controlled robots in a flash (New Atlas, June 2017)
- Soft robotic exosuit can help stroke patients (IEEE Spectrum, July 2017)
- Low-cost pliable materials transform glove into sign-to-text machine (IEEE Spectrum, July 2017)
- A colonoscopy robot and other weird biomedical tech from IEEE’s biggest robotics conference (IEEE Spectrum, Jul 2017)
- Metal that remembers its shape (ASME, July 2017)
- Folding robots: No battery, no wire, no problem (Science Daily, July 2017)
- Hybrid crawling robot made with living tissue (ABME, July 2017)
- Robotic exoskeleton adapts while it’s worn (Scientific America, July 2017)
- Testing a soft artificial heart (ETH Zurich News, July 2017)