Highlighted News
* Special issue on Soft Robotics is published in Biomimetics
* June and August issue of Soft Robotics are already online
* HybridHeart: a soft biocompatible artificial heart project is started
* Open-access tutorial on how to design and build laminar jamming structures is available here
* A postdoctoral position in mechanical sensing is available here
New Videos
* Soft tensegrity robots (June 2018)
* Soft robotics word – in Japanese (June 2018)
* The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots (July 2018)
* Robotics flexible electronics (video1 and video2) (July 2018)
* MORPH: A new soft material microfabrication process (August 2018)
* The DLR CLASH hand – a soft gripper for commercial food handling (August 2018)
Published Journal Articles
* Related review:
- Moving toward soft robotics: A decade review of the design of hand exoskeletons (Biomimetics, July 2018)
- Capability by stacking: The current design heuristic for soft robots (Biomimetics, July 2018)
- Hydrogel actuators and sensors for biomedical soft robots: Brief overview with impending challenges (Biomimetics, July 2018)
- Toward perceptive soft robots: Progress and challenges (Adv Sci, July 2018)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Design and development of a topology-optimized three-dimensional printed soft gripper (Soft Robotics, July 2018)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Microtransformers: Controlled microscale navigation with flexible robots (Phys Rev Fluids, June 2018)
- A multi-body dynamics based numerical modelling tool for solving aquatic biomimetic problems (Bioinspiration Biomim, July 2018)
- Intermittent locomotion of a fish-like swimmer driven by passive elastic mechanism (Bionspiration Biomim, July 2018)
- Design and assessment of a flexible fish robot actuated by shape memory alloys (Bionspiration Biomim, July 2018)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Consistent and reproducible direct ink writing of eutectic gallium–indium for high-quality soft sensors (Soft Robotics, July 2018)
- A soft optical waveguide coupled with fiber optics for dynamic pressure and strain sensing (IEEE RA-L, July 2018)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials (Nature, June 2018)
- Covalent-supramolecular hybrid polymers as muscle-inspired anisotropic actuators (Nat Commun, June 2018)
- Modeling of dielectric elastomer oscillators for soft biomimetic applications (Bionspiration Biomim, June 2018)
- Development, characterization and electromechanical actuation behavior of ionic polymer metal composite actuator based on sulfonated poly(1,4-phenylene ether-ether-sulfone)/carbon nanotubes (Sci Rep, July 2018)
- Exploiting textile mechanical anisotropy for fabric-based pneumatic actuators (Soft Robotics, July 2018)
- Novel control strategy for the +SPEA: A redundant actuator with reconfigurable parallel elements (Mechatronics, August 2018)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Robotic flexible electronics with self-bendable films (Soft Robotics, July 2018)
- Microfluidic-based flexible reflective multicolor display (Microsyst Nanoeng, July 2018)
- Three-dimensional integrated stretchable electronics (Nature Electronics, August 2018)
* Soft robot application:
- Assisting hand function after spinal cord injury with a fabric-based soft robotic glove (J Neuroeng Rehabil, June 2018)
- Passive back support exoskeleton improves range of motion using flexible beams (Frontiers in Robotics and AI, June 2018)
- Autonomous multi-joint soft exosuit with augmentation-power-based control parameter tuning reduces energy cost of loaded walking (J Neuroeng Rehabil, July 2018)
- Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed soft robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate deep-sea organisms (PLoS ONE, August 2018)
* Morphological computation, morphological change:
- Twist of tubular mechanical metamaterials based on waterbomb origami (Sci Rep, June 2018)
- Exploiting the dynamics of soft materials for machine learning (Soft Robotics, June 2018)
Conference Articles
- Proceedings of IEEE Robosoft 2018 is already online
- Toward computing with spider webs: Computational setup realization (Living Machine 2018)
- Evolution of fin undulation on a physical knifefish-inspired soft robot (GECCO 2018)
Popular Articles
- Watch this shape-shifting magnetic material catch a ball on command (Nature News, June 2018)
- ‘Electronic skin’ allows user of prosthetic hand to feel pain (Gizmodo, June 2018)
- Flexible force sensors for microrobotics (Wyss Institute, June 2018)
- Watch hyper-realistic skin get made for bionic limbs (Popular Mechanics, June 2018)
- Implantable 3D-printed organs could be coming sooner than you think (TechCrunch, June 2018)
- Artificial sensory neurons may give future prosthetic devices and robots a subtle sense of touch (KurzweilAI, June 2018)
- Popcorn-driven robotic actuators (IEEE Spectrum, July 2018)
- Solar powered synthetic skin for robotics and prosthetics (Nanowerk, July 2018)