Highlighted News
* Focus issue on Soft Robotics is published in Nature Review Materials
* June issue of Soft Robotics is already online
* The first IEEE Conference on Soft Robotics (Robosoft 2018) was successfully held in Livorno, Italy
New Videos
* Evolution of fin undulation on a physical knifefish-inspired soft robot (April 2018)
* Design and fabrication of a soft robotic hand and arm system (April 2018)
* Design of frictional 2D-anisotropy surface for wriggle locomotion of printable soft-bodied robots (May 2018)
* Multi-fingered soft robotic hand presented at RoboSoft 2018 (May 2018)
* New hybrid robot uses living muscles to move (May 2018)
* Soft robotics toolkit overview (June 2018)
Published Journal Articles
* Related review:
- Growing the soft robotics community through knowledge-sharing initiatives (Soft Robotics, April 2018)
- Soft robotic grippers (Adv. Mater., May 2018)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., May 2018)
- A unified multi-soft-body dynamic model for underwater soft robots (Int. J. Robotics Res., May 2018)
- A study on plant root apex morphology as a model for soft robots moving in soil (PLoS ONE, June 2018)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Electronic skins for soft, compact, reversible assembly of wirelessly activated fully soft robots (Science Robotics, May 2018)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators (Science Robotics, April 2018)
- Modelling the viscoelastic hysteresis of dielectric elastomer actuators with a modified rate-dependent Prandtl-Ishlinskii model (Polymers, May 2018)
- Silicones for stretchable and durable soft devices: Beyond Sylgard-184 (Appl. Mater. Interfaces, May 2018)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- An autonomously electrically self-healing liquid metal–elastomer composite for robust soft-matter robotics and electronics (Nat. Mater, May 2018)
* Soft robot application:
- Towards alternative approaches for coupling of a soft robotic sleeve to the heart (Ann Biomed Eng, May 2018)
- Human-in-the-loop development of soft wearable robots (Nat Rev Mater, May 2018)
Popular Articles
- FlyJacket lets you control a drone with your body (Comm. of the ACM, April 2018)
- Why a robot can’t yet outjump a flea (Duke Today, April 2018)
- Coiled carbon fiber artificial muscle lifts 12,000 times its own weight (New Atlas, April 2018)
- Feel what this robot feels through tactile expressions (Comm. of the ACM, May 2018)
- Researchers 3D print on skin for breakthrough applications (ASME, May 2018)
- Flexible, highly efficient multimodal energy harvesting (NewElectronics, May 2018)
- Learning software in a soft exosuit (Hackaday.com, June 2018)