March 2017

Highlighted News 

* The first book / e-book dedicated on the foundations and trends in soft material robotics is published (also available as sixty-eight pages journal article)

* IEEE ICRA 2017 Workshop: Advanced Fabrication and Morphological Computation for Soft Robotics

* IEEE ICRA 2017 Workshop: Innovative Haptic Interfaces Emerging from Soft Robotics

* IEEE ICRA 2017 Competition: Soft Material Robot Challenge

* Call for Paper: Advanced Robotics Special Issue on “Morphological computation in Soft Robotics”. For further information, please read this link.

* PhD and Postdoc position is available at Bristol Univ. For further information, please read here.

* Postdoc position is available at Univ. of Cambridge. To apply for the position, please follow this link.

New Videos

Apple picking robot uses soft robotics gripper & FANUC 3D vision to safely package apples (Feb 2017)

* Festo – Octopus gripper (March 2017)

Festo – BionicCobot (March 2017)

End-Effector airbags to accelerate human-robot collaboration in industrial scenarios (March 2017)

Building a soft robotic cube (March 2017)

Published Journal Articles

* Related review:

* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:

* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:

* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:

* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:

* Soft robot application:

* Soft robot fabrication, growing robot:

* Morphological computation, morphological change, self-organization:

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