Announcements
- 2021 issue of Soft Robotics Journal is available at (Link)
- Recording from the last Soft Robotics Debate on “Soft Robotics Impact: Exploratory Research vs. Application Oriented Solutions” is available at (Link)
- Multiple Research Topics on Soft Robotics in Frontiers: Robotics & AI (Link)
- Design, Manufacturing, Characterization, and Control of Soft Structures for Practical Applications
- Soft Robot State Estimation
- Wearable Soft Robotics in Diagnostics and Therapeutics
- Learning Rigid-Soft Interactions in Robotic Manipulation
- How Machines Interact with Their Environment: Embodied Intelligence, Soft Robots, and Beyond
- Design, Modeling and Control of Kinematically Redundant Robots
- Soft Robotics Journal call for cover art (Link)
- Dutch Soft Robotics Winterschool and Symposium (Link)
- Call for Paper: Special Issue “Soft Robotics: Fusing Function with Structure” [Robotics] (ISSN 2218-6581, CiteScore 3.5)
Vacancies
- PostDoc position on “large area electronic skin for #softrobotics” with Prof. Lucia Beccai at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Link)
- PhD Position on Co-Design of Soft Robots at TU Berlin (Link)
- Fully funded PhD studentships in Soft Robotics and Mechatronics at the University of Sussex (Link)
- PostDoc Fellowship in Soft Aerial Robotics at Imperial College London
- One Post-Doc Position Available in Soft Robotics at Khalifa University (Email Prof. Federico Renda, Khalifa U, UAE)
Featured Videos
- Tails stabilize Landing of gliding Geckos crashing Head-First Into Tree Trunks (Ardian Jusufi lab, Sep 2021)
- Laser Pouch Motors (IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, presented at RoboSoft 2020) (Phygital Media Lab, Aug 2021)
- Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real time tactile control (MIT, Aug 2021)
- Soft Robotics Introduces SoftAI™ – Accelerating the Adoption of Robotics in Food Processing (Soft Robotics Inc, Sep 2021)
- EFRI SoRo Project (Lehigh AIR Lab, Aug 2021)
- Chameleon robot (NPG Press)
- VENOM (BRAIN VISTEC, Jul 2021)
- Inflatable robot (Motion Intelligence Lab, Aug 2021)
- Soft Robotics Bakery Automation (Soft Robotics Inc., Aug 2021)
- GE’s Autonomous Robot Dig (GE Research, Jul 2021)
- NVIDIA Research: DiSECt – A Differentiable Simulation Engine for Autonomous Robotic Cutting (NVIDIA Developer, Jul 2021)
- Robotic hand has knack for video games (A. James Clark School of Engineering, Jul 2021)
- Surprisingly Robust In-Hand Manipulation: An Empirical Study – RSS 2021 (RBU TU Berlin, Jun 2021)
Featured Articles
Views and Reviews
- Review on mobile robots that exploit resonance (Eng Sci, Aug 2021)
- Application of soft computing methods in robotic grasping: A state-of-the-art survey (J Proc Mech Eng, Sep 2021)
Soft New Materials, Actuators & Stiffening Methods
- 4D Thermomechanical metamaterials for soft microrobotics (Commun Mat, Sep 2021)
- Performance Metrics for Fluidic Soft Robot Rotational Actuators (Front Rob AI, Aug 2021)
- Hardware Methods for Onboard Control of Fluidically Actuated Soft Robots (Front Rob AI, Aug 2021)
- Flow Path Optimization for Soft Pneumatic Actuators: Towards Optimal Performance and Portability (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Soft Robotic Oscillators With Strain-Based Coordination (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Bistable Valves for MR Fluid-Based Soft Robotic Actuation Systems (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Designing Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Thumb Movements (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Two-Sheet Type Rotary-Driven Thin Bending Mechanism Realizing High Stiffness (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- A Simple Free-Fold Test to Measure Bending Stiffness of Slender Soft Actuators (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- A Novel Pressure-Controlled Revolute Joint with Variable Stiffness (SoRo J, Jul 2021)
- Soft Twisting Pneumatic Actuators Enabled by Freeform Surface Design (IEEE RA-L, Jul 2021)
- Topology Optimization of Skeleton-Reinforced Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Desired Motions (IEEE/ASME ToM, Aug 2021)
- Bone-Inspired Bending Soft Robot (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
- A Soft Exoskeleton for Tremor Suppression Equipped with Flexible Semiactive Actuator (SoRo J, 2021)
- Design and Fabrication of a Low-Cost Silicone and Water-Based Soft Actuator with a High Load-to-Weight Ratio (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
- Analytical Modeling and Design of Generalized Pneu-Net Soft Actuators with Three-Dimensional Deformations (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
- Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Bimodal Bending Response Using a Single Pressure Source (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
Soft Sensing, Electronic & Skins
- Digital light processing of liquid crystal elastomers for self-sensing artificial muscles (Sci Adv, Jul 2021)
- Tactile Scanning for Detecting Micro Bump by Strain-Sensitive Artificial Skin (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- 3D-printed liquid metal-based stretchable conductors and pressure sensors (Smart Matter Struct, Jul 2021)
- A Soft Variable-Area Electrical-Double-Layer Energy Harvester (Adv. Matter., Aug 2021)
Soft Robot Fabrication Techniques & Hardware Toolkits
- Fully 3D-printed soft robots with integrated fluidic circuitry (Sci Adv, Jul 2021)
- Wide-Bandwidth Soft Vibrotactile Interface Using Electrohydraulic Actuator for Haptic Steering Wheel Application (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Optical-Tactile Sensor for Lump Detection Using Pneumatic Control (Front. Robot AI, Jul 2021)
Soft Locomotion, Swimming & Flying
- Review on mobile robots that exploit resonance (Eng Sci, Aug 2021)
- Design of a novel inchworm in-pipe robot based on cam-linkage mechanism (Adv Eng Sci, Sep 2021)
- Soft Robotics: Morphology and Morphology-inspired Motion Strategy (IEEE/CAA J Autom Sinica, 2021)
- Origami-Inspired Robot That Swims via Jet Propulsion (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- An Analysis of Peristaltic Locomotion for Maximizing Velocity or Minimizing Cost of Transport of Earthworm-Like Robots (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
Soft Manipulation & Grasping
- Arrangement of soft fingers for automatic grasping of fabric pieces of garment (Textile Res J, Jul 2021)
- Surprisingly Robust In-Hand Manipulation: An Empirical Study (RSS conf, 2021)
- An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
Biomimicry & Bioinspiration
- Biomimetic chameleon soft robot with artificial crypsis and disruptive coloration skin (Nat Commun, Aug 2021)
- Flagellate Underwater Robotics at Macroscale: Design, Modeling, and Characterization (IEEE T-RO, Jul 2021)
- A Cephalopod-Inspired Soft-Robotic Siphon for Thrust Vectoring and Flow Rate Regulation (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
Soft Robot Applications
- Soft robotic manipulator for intraoperative MRI-guided transoral laser microsurgery (Sci Rob, Aug 2021)
- Soft robotic constrictor for in vitro modeling of dynamic tissue compression (Sci Rep, Aug 2021)
- Ferromagnetic soft catheter robots for minimally invasive bioprinting (Nat Commun, Aug 2021)
- Laser Endoscopic Manipulator Using Spring-Reinforced Multi-DoF Soft Actuator (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- RoSE: A Robotic Soft Esophagus for Endoprosthetic Stent Testing (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
Soft Robot Theory: Learning, Modelling, Control
- Learning to control active matter (Phys Rev Research, Sep 2021)
- Shape Recognition of a Tensegrity With Soft Sensor Threads and Artificial Muscles Using a Recurrent Neural Network (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Closed-Loop Position Control for Growing Robots Via Online Jacobian Corrections (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Analyzing the Performance Limits of Articulated Soft Robots Based on the ESPi Framework: Applications to Damping and Impedance Control (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Workspace Boundary Estimation for Soft Manipulators Using a Continuation Approach (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Inverse Dynamics Model-Based Shape Control of Soft Continuum Finger Robot Using Parametric Curve (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- earning Fingertip Force to Grasp Deformable Objects for Soft Wearable Robotic Glove With TSM (IEEE RA-L, 2021)
- Discrete Cosserat Method for Soft Manipulators Workspace Estimation: An Optimization-Based Approach (ASME J Mech Robot, Aug 2021)
- Facile Analytical Extraction of the Hyperelastic Constants for the Two-Parameter Mooney–Rivlin Model from Experiments on Soft Polymers (SoRo J, Aug 2021)
Embodied Intelligence & Morphological Computation
- Application of soft computing methods in robotic grasping: A state-of-the-art survey (J Proc Mech Eng, Sep 2021)
- Morphological Sensitivity and Falling Behavior of Paper V-Shapes(Artif Life, Sep 2021)
Featured News Articles
- Making 3D-Printed Objects Feel (IEEE Spectrum, Sep 2021)
- Exosuit That Helps With the Heavy Lifting (IEEE Spectrum, Sep 2021)
- Faster Microfiber Actuators Mimic Human Muscle (IEEE Spectrum, Sep 2021)
- A Soft, Wearable Brain–Machine Interface (IEEE Spectrum, Aug 2021)
- Chameleon-like camouflage made for soft robot (BBC News, Aug 2021)
- Tiny ‘maniac’ robots could deliver drugs directly to central nervous system (Front. Sci. News, Aug 2021)
- 4 Advances in Soft Robotics (ASME, Sep 2021)