Highlighted News
* International workshop on “Novel biomimetic models: materials, soft robots and artificial intelligence”, in the Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC2015), Hakodate, Japan, November 8-9, 2015.
* Special section on octopus-inspired robotics in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, June 2015
New Videos
Published Journal Articles
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Learning the inverse kinetics of an octopus-like manipulator in three-dimensional space (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2015)
- Stereotypical reaching movements of the octopus involve both bend propagation and arm elongation (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2015)
- Modal kinematics for multisection continuum arms (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2015)
- Exploitation of environmental constraints in human and robotic grasping (Int. J. Robot. Res., June 2015)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Passive mechanical models of fish caudal fins: effects of shape and stiffness on self-propulsion (Bioinspir. Biomim., April 2015)
- Octopus-inspired multi-arm robotic swimming (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2015)
- Aerodynamic performance of two-dimensional, chordwise flexible flapping wings at fruit fly scale in hover flight (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2015)
- Bioinspired locomotion and grasping in water: the soft eight-arm OCTOPUS robot (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2015)
- Towards versatile legged robots through active impedance control (Int. J. Robot. Res., May 2015)
- Snake robot uncovers secrets to sidewinders’ maneuverability (PNAS, May 2015)
* Soft robot fabrication, growing robot:
- Mechanically sintered gallium–indium nanoparticles (Adv. Mater., April 2015)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Onion artificial muscles (Appl. Phys. Lett., May 2015)
* Soft robot application:
- A bioinspired soft manipulator for minimally invasive surgery (Bioinspir. Biomim., May 2015)
* Morphological computation, morphological change, self-organization:
- Effects of sensilla morphology on mechanosensory sensitivity in the crayfish (Bioinspir. Biomim., April 2015)
- Information processing via physical soft body (Scientific Report, May 2015)
* Biological studies:
- Paws, pads and plants: the enhanced elasticity of cell-filled load-bearing structures (Proc. R. Soc. A, June 2015)
* Related review:
- Design, fabrication and control of soft robots (Nature, May 2015)
Conference and Workshop Papers (IEEE ICRA 2015)
- ICRA 2015 Regular Session on Soft Robotics
- ICRA 2015 Regular Session on Bio-Inspired Robotics and Soft Robotics
- ICRA 2015 Workshop Soft Robotics: Actuation, Integration, and Applications: Blending Research Perspectives. Pictures are available here
Popular Articles
- The robotics inventors who are trying to take the ‘hard’ out of hardware (New York Times, April 2015)
- Inkjet-printed liquid metal could lead to new wearable tech, soft robotics (KurzweilAI.net, April 2015)
- An artificial hand that can respond sensitively thanks to ‘muscles’ made of shape-memory wires (KurzweilAI.net, April 2015)
- ’4-D printing’ objects that morph based on stimuli like water and heat (KurzweilAI.net, April 2015)
- Gold-plated onion shows strength as an artificial muscle (Scientific America, May 2015),
- How we made an octopus-inspired surgical robot using coffee (Scientific America, May 2015)
- Smarter, cheaper technologies for improved point-of-care medicine in remote areas (KurzweilAI.net, May 2015)
- Flexible graphene electrodes embedded in textiles allows for wearable electronic devices (KurzweilAI.net, May 2015)
- Wearables and electric vehicles may get boost from boron-infused graphene (KurzweilAI.net, May 2015)
- Scientists want to send a fish-like ‘soft robot’ to swim the oceans of Europa (Washington Post, May 2015)
- Soft actuators go from squishy to stiff (and back again) (IEEE Spectrum, June 2015)
- A new grasp on robotic glove (Harvard Gazette, June 2015)
Book
* Soft robotics – Transferring theory to application: Overview of current developments in the emerging field of soft robotics. The table of content can be downloaded from here.