Highlighted News
* April issue of Soft Robotics is already online
* The importance of soft robotics is acknowledged in EU publications on industrial human-robot collaboration
* SMART Innovative Training Network is recruiting PhD Students. More information can be found here
* Special issue of the Actuators journal on “Electroactive Polymer Actuators for Soft Robotics II”. Submission deadline: 31 July 2020
* New full podcast episodes are available here
New Videos
* Underwater Snail-o-Bot gets kick from light (Feb 2020)
* Eversion and retraction of a soft robot towards the exploration of coral reefs (Feb 2020)
* Soft machines lab introduces new soft, multifunctional composite (Feb 2020)
* Robotic gripping and handling of seafood (March 2020)
* The gripper guys explain how soft robotics solves for variability (Mar 2020)
* In-hand manipulation with RBO Hands (Apr 2020)
Published Journal
* Related view and review:
- Current advances in soft robotics: Best papers from RoboSoft 2018 (Front. Robot. AI., Apr 2020)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Programmable droplet manipulation by a magnetic-actuated robot (Sci. Adv., Feb 2020)
- Universal SMP gripper with massive and selective capabilities for multiscaled, arbitrarily shaped objects (Sci. Adv., Feb 2020)
- Design and prototyping soft–rigid tendon-driven modular grippers using interpenetrating phase composites materials (Int. J. Robot. Res., Feb 2020)
- Octopus arm-inspired tapered soft actuators with suckers for improved grasping (Soft Robotics, Feb 2020)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Deformable microswimmer in an external force field (Phys. Rev. Fluids, Mar 2020)
- A 1mm-thick miniatured mobile soft robot with mechanosensation and multimodal locomotion (IEEE RA-L, Apr 2020)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Sustainable manufacturing of sensors onto soft systems using self-coagulating conductive pickering emulsions (Sci. Robot, Feb 2020)
- CoboSkin: Soft robot skin with variable stiffness for safer human-robot collaboration (IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., March 2020)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Seamless multimaterial 3D liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators for next-generation entirely soft robots (Sci Adv., Feb 2020)
- Geometric confined pneumatic soft–rigid hybrid actuators (Soft Robotics, Feb 2020)
- Design, optimization and energetic evaluation of an efficient fully powered ankle-foot prosthesis with a series elastic actuator (IEEE Access, March 2020)
- Varying mechanical compliance benefits energy efficiency of a knee joint actuator (Mechatronics, April 2020)
* Soft robot application:
- Characterization, simulation and control of a soft helical pneumatic implantable robot for tissue regeneration (IEEE T-MRB, Feb 2020)
- Inflatable soft wearable robot for reducing therapist fatigue during upper extremity rehabilitation in severe stroke (IEEE RA-L, March 2020)
* Soft robot fabrication, embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- Vertical fibrous morphology and structure-function relationship in natural and biomimetic suction-based adhesion discs (Matter, Feb 2020)
- Additive manufacturing for self-healing soft robots (Soft Robotics, Mar 2020)
- An untethered isoperimetric soft robot (Sci. Robot, Mar 2020)
- Inverse statics optimization for compound tensegrity robots (IEEE RA-L, March 2020)
- Flexoskeleton printing enables versatile fabrication of hybrid soft and rigid robots (Soft Robotics, Apr 2020)
- Model-based pose control of inflatable eversion robot with variable stiffness (IEEE RA-L, Apr 2020)
- Lightweight highly tunable jamming-based composites (Soft Robotics, Apr 2020)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Nanofabrication for all-soft and high-density electronic devices based on liquid metal (Nat. Commun., Feb 2020)
- Soft, wireless periocular wearable electronics for real-time detection of eye vergence in a virtual reality toward mobile eye therapies (Sci Adv., Mar 2020)
Popular Articles
- Underwater Snail-o-Bot gets kick from light (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Feb 2020)
- Vertical fibers in the suckerfish’s suction cup-like fin help it hitchhike (Phys.org, Feb 2020)
- The tentacle bot (Harvard News & Events, Feb 2020)
- One indestructible bug in a soft robotic body (ASME, Mar 2020)
- Stanford engineers create shape-changing, free-roaming soft robot (Stanford News, Mar 2020)
- Engineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants (MIT News, Mar 2020)
- Liquid metal that floats on water could make transformable robots (NewScientist, Mar 2020)
- Soft robot takes cues from a sea slug’s swimming stroke (Nature Research Highlight, Mar 2020)
- A resilient robotic bug (Advanced Science News, March 2020)
- Thanks to ‘flexoskeletons,’ these insect-inspired robots are faster and cheaper to make (Jacobs School News, Apr 2020),