Highlighted News
* Workshop on “Application-Oriented Modelling and Control of Soft Robots” will be organized in IEEE IROS 2020
* Recording of 1st Soft Robotics debate: “Morphological Contribution vs. Traditional Methods for Control and Planning in Soft Robotics”
* August issue of Soft Robotics is already online
New Videos
* Fully wearable actuated soft exoskeleton for grasping assistance in everyday activities (Jun 2020)
* Webinar on liquid metals for soft devices (Jun 2020)
* Soft robots driven by twisted-and-coiled actuators (Jun 2020)
* Liquid metal streams the size of a hair: Overcoming rayleigh plateau instabilities (Jul 2020)
* Jellyfish-inspired soft robots can outswim their natural counterparts (Jul 2020)
* Four-limb motor-tendon actuated soft robot – RoboSoft 2020 (Jul 2020)
* Agile and soft tele-controlled robot (ASTRO) – RoboSoft 2020 (Jul 2020)
* Cambridge soft hover – RoboSoft 2020 (Jul 2020)
* Hybrid soft exoskeleton glove with a telescopic extra thumb, abduction capabilities – RoboSoft 2020 (Jul 2020)
* Directed assembly of liquid metal–elastomer conductors for stretchable and self‐healing electronics (Jul 2020)
Published Journal
* Related view and review:
- Liquid metal direct write and 3D printing: A review (Adv Mater Technol, Jun 2020)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Kinematics of soft robots by geometric computing (IEEE T Robot, Aug 2020)
- A dexterous soft robotic hand for delicate in-hand manipulation (IEEE RA-L, Jul 2020)
- Modeling, calibration, and evaluation of a tendon-actuated planar parallel continuum robot (IEEE RA-L, Jul 2020)
- A soft manipulator for efficient delicate grasping in shallow water: modeling, control, and real-world experiments (Int J Robot Res, Jul 2020)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- IRONSperm: Sperm-templated soft magnetic microrobots (Sci Adv, Jul 2020)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- 3D printed deformable sensors (Sci Adv, Jun 2020)
- Ionic spiderwebs (Sci Robot, Jun 2020)
- A breathable, biodegradable, antibacterial, and self-powered electronic skin based on all-nanofiber triboelectric nanogenerators (Sci Adv, Jun 2020)
- Structuring of tactile sensory information for category formation in robotics palpation (Auton Robots, Jul 2020)
- A model-based sensor fusion approach for force and shape estimation in soft robotics (IEEE RA-L, Jul 2020)
- Sensor reduction of variable stiffness actuated robots using moving horizon estimation (IEEE T Contr Syst T, Jul 2020)
- Soft acoustic waveguides for strain, deformation, localization and twist measurements (IEEE Sens J, Jul 2020)
- A potentiometric mechanotransduction mechanism for novel electronic skins (Sci Adv, Jul 2020)
- Data–driven disturbance observers for estimating external forces on soft robots (IEEE RA-L, Aug 2020)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Soft electromagnetic actuators (Sci Adv, Jun 2020)
- Towards a soft magnetoelastic twist actuator (Phys Rev, Jun 2020)
- Twisted-and-coiled actuators with free strokes enable soft robots with programmable motions (Soft Robotics, Jun 2020)
- Hand gesture control and design of a rotary pneumatic soft actuator using leap motion sensor (IJIRA, Jun 2020)
- Multimode hydraulically amplified electrostatic actuators for wearable haptics (Adv. Mater., Jul 2020)
- Smart thermally actuating textiles (Adv Mater Technol, Jul 2020)
- Design of a pneumatic soft actuator controlled via eye tracking and detection (Heliyon, Jul 2020)
- In-air fast response and high speed jumping and rolling of a light-driven hydrogel actuator (Nat Commun, Aug 2020)
* Soft robot fabrication, embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- Negshell casting: 3D-printed structured and sacrificial cores for soft robot fabrication (PLOs ONE, Jun 2020)
- Biosynthetic self-healing materials for soft machines (Nat Mater, Jul 2020)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Directed assembly of liquid metal–elastomer conductors for stretchable and self‐healing electronics (Adv Mater, Jun 2020)
- Lighter and stronger: Cofabricated electrodes and variable stiffness elements in dielectric actuators (Adv Intell Syst, Jul 2020)
- Overcoming Rayleigh–Plateau instabilities: Stabilizing and destabilizing liquid-metal streams via electrochemical oxidation (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, Aug 2020)
Conference Articles
- Morphological communication for swarms (ALIFE 2020)
- Learning of sub-optimal gait controllers for magnetic walking soft millirobots (RSS 2020)
- Efficient Bayesian exploration for soft morphology-action co-optimization (Robosoft 2020)
Popular Articles
- Malleable structure makes robot arm more versatile (IEEE Spectrum, Jul 2020)
- Bio-ink for 3-D printing inside the body (IEEE Spectrum, Jul 2020)
- New research in origami metamaterials promises wide implications (GeorgiaTech NewsCenter, Jul 2020)
- Sensory “skin” detects cracks in bridges (IowaStateUniv.News, Jul 2020)
- Superman of soft robots (ASME, Aug 2020)