Highlighted News
* Robosoft 2019 was successfully held in Seoul on April 14-18, 2019. The detail program, list of organized workshops and presented papers can be found from here
* April 2019 issue of Soft Robotics is already online
* Soft robotics seminar on “Motion of Soft Robots with Physically Embodied Intelligence” was held in Michigan State University on 13 March 2019
New Videos
* Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks (Feb 2019)
* Festo – BionicSoftArm (Feb 2019)
* Tough fibers that dissipate energy one break at a time (Feb 2019)
* RI seminar: Robert J. Wood : The mechanical side of artificial intelligence (March 2019)
* Origami robot gripper (March 2019)
* Soft robotic automation: Sausage roll handling (March 2019)
Published Journal Articles
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Towards a variable stiffness surgical manipulator based on fiber jamming transition (Front. robot. AI., March 2019)
- Soft-smart robotic end effectors with sensing, actuation, and gripping capabilities (Smart Mater. Struct., March 2019)
- Magnetic augmented self-sensing flexible electroadhesive grippers (IEEE RA-L, March 2019)
- Modeling and prototyping of a soft closed-chain modular gripper (Ind. Robot., March 2019)
- Elasto-capillary adhesion: Effect of deformability on adhesion strength and detachment (Phys. Rev. Fluids., March 2019)
- Soft actuators with stiffness and shape modulation using 3D-printed conductive polylactic acid material (Soft Robotics, April 2019)
- Grasping interface with wet adhesion and patterned morphology: Case of thin shell (IEEE RA-L, April 2019)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- A hopping robot driven by a series elastic dual-motor actuator (IEEE RA-L, Feb 2019)
- Microscale magneto-elastic composite swimmers at the air-water and water-solid interfaces under a uniaxial field (Phys. Rev. Applied., April 2019)
- Morphing robots using robotic skins that sculpt clay (IEEE RA-L, April 2019)
- Adapting stiffness and attack angle through trial and error to increase self-stability in locomotion (J. Biomech, April 2019)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Toughening stretchable fibers via serial fracturing of a metallic core (Sci Adv., Feb 2019)
- Stretchable, self-healing, transient macromolecular elastomeric gel for wearable electronics (Microsyst. Nanoeng., March 2019)
- Liquid metal-filled magnetorheological elastomer with positive piezoconductivity (Nat. Commun., March 2019)
- Integrated soft ionotronic skin with stretchable and transparent hydrogel–elastomer ionic sensors for hand-motion monitoring (Soft Robotics, March 2019)
- Toward a new generation of smart skins (Nat. Biotechnol., April 2019)
- Polymeric foams for flexible and highly sensitive low-pressure capacitive sensors (npj Flexible Electronics, April 2019)
- Srecen‐printed soft capacitive sensors for spatial mapping of both positive and negative pressures (Adv. Funct. Mater., April 2019)
- Wrinkled soft sensor with variable afferent morphology (IEEE RA-L, April 2019)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Numerical analysis of periodic laminar and fibrous media undergoing a jamming transition (Eur J. Mech. A-Solid, Feb 2019)
- Dynamic modeling of fiber-reinforced soft manipulator: A visco-hyperelastic material-based continuum mechanics approach (Soft Robotics, March 2019)
- Feedforward control of the rate-dependent viscoelastic hysteresis nonlinearity in dielectric elastomer actuators (IEEE RA-L, March 2019)
- The compressive strength of crumpled matter (Nat. Commun., April 2019)
* Soft robot application:
- Physiological and kinematic effects of a soft exosuit on arm movements (J Neuroeng. Rehabil., Feb 2019)
* Embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- Digital logic for soft devices (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., March 2019)
Popular Articles
- Robot melts its bones to change how it walks (IEEE Spectrum, Feb 2019)
- Coming soon: Battery-free pacemakers powered by the heart? (HealthDay, Feb 2019)
- Scientists create stretchy self-healing electronic skin inspired by jellyfish (InterestingEngineering, March 2019)
- Researchers create ‘Terminator-like’ soft magnetic metal (InterestingEngineering, March 2019)
- Soft circuits to control soft robots (IEEE Spectrum, April 2019)