Highlighted News
* Successfully organized IEEE IROS 2013 Workshop on Soft Technologies for Wearable Robots
* IEEE IROS Time Capsule: the octopus-inspired artificial muscular hydrostat unit has been stored in the time capsule at IROS 2013 as example of actuation system for soft robot arms.
* “STIFF-FLOP surgical manipulator: mechanical design and experimental characterization of the single module” was selected as finalist for “ICROS award for IROS 2013 best application paper”
Upcoming Events / Call for Papers
* Reminder – Call for Papers, Special Issue: “Soft Actuators”, Journal: Actuators
* 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
* ALife 2014: The 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems
Published Journal Articles
* Soft locomotion:
- Influence of surface traction on soft robot undulation (Int. J. Robot. Res., Nov. 2013)
- Foot–terrain interaction mechanics for legged robots: Modeling and experimental validation (Int. J. Robot. Res., Nov. 2013).
- A dynamic finite element analysis of human foot complex in the sagittal plane during level walking (PLoS ONE, Nov. 2013)
- A bioinspired autonomous swimming robot as a tool for studying goal-directed locomotion (Biol. Cybern., Oct. 2013)
* Soft sensing:
- C. elegans sensing of and entrainment along obstacles require different neurons at different body locations (Scientific Reports, Oct. 2013)
* Soft interaction, soft robot behavior, soft human-robot interactions:
- Surface tension and contact with soft elastic solids (Nat Commun., Nov. 2013)
- Fluid–structure interaction-based biomechanical perception model for tactile sensing (PLoS ONE, Nov. 2013)
- Pressure–induced cell wall instability and growth oscillations in pollen tubes (PLoS ONE, Nov. 2013).
- Analysis of initial cell spreading using mechanistic contact formulations for a deformable cell model (PLoS Comp. Biol., Oct. 2013)
- A psychophysical evaluation of haptic controllers: viscosity perception of soft environments (Robotica, January 2014)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Artificial heartbeat: design and fabrication of a biologically inspired pump (Bioinspir. Biomim., Nov. 2013)
* Soft robotics application:
- Robotics and neuroprosthetics – Smaller, Softer, Safer, Smarter Robots (Sci. Transl. Med. – editorial, Nov. 2013)
* Morphological computation, morphological change, self organization:
- Guided hierarchical co-assembly of soft patchy nanoparticles (Nature, Nov. 2013)
- A generalized approach to the modeling and analysis of 3D surface morphology in organisms (PLoS ONE, Oct. 2013)
- Understanding collective dynamics of soft active colloids by binary scattering (Phys. Rev. E, Nov. 2013)
- Engineering particle trajectories in microfluidic flows using particle shape (Nat Commun., Nov. 2013)
- Understanding collective dynamics of soft active colloids by binary scattering (Phys. Rev. E, Nov. 2013)
- Shape transitions in soft spheres regulated by elasticity (Phys. Rev. E, Nov 2013)
* Biological studies:
- Stiffness dependent separation of cells in a microfluidic device (PLoS ONE, Nov. 2013)
- The limits on trypanosomatid morphological diversity (PLoS ONE, Nov. 2013)
- Choose your weapon: defensive behavior is associated with morphology and performance in scorpions (PLoS ONE, Nov. 2013).
- Indentation quantification for in-liquid nanomechanical measurement of soft material using an atomic force microscope: Rate-dependent elastic modulus of live cells (Phys. Rev. E, Nov. 2013)
Popular Article
- Rise of the soft robot (Nature.com Blogs, Nov. 2011)
- Worms and octopuses inspire pliable machines that go where no metallic robots can (Scientific American, Nov. 2013).
- Soft robots that deform as they move (Scientific American, Nov. 2013)