Highlighted News
* December issue of Soft Robotics are already online
* Engineer and roboticist Robert Wood is honored with Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for his role and accomplishments in the field of soft robotics
* Call for abstracts: AMAM 2019, Adaptive motion in animals and machines, Aug 19-23 2019, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Deadline: March 2019)
New Videos
* Multi-joint personalized soft exosuit breaks new ground, see J Neuroeng Rehabil (Oct 2018)
* Engineering soft robots for paradigm shift in rehabilitation, see NSF News (Oct 2018)
* Soft poly-limb compilation (Oct 2018)
* Spider silk is five times stronger than steel—and now scientists know why (Nov 2018)
Published Journal Articles
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Discrete cosserat approach for multisection soft manipulator dynamics (IEEE Trans. Robot., Oct 2018)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Controllable switching between planar and helical flagellar swimming of a soft robotic sperm (PLoS ONE, Nov 2018)
- Experimental trajectory optimization of a flapping fin propulsor using an evolutionary strategy (Bioinspiration. Biomim., Nov 2018)
- EuMoBot: replicating euglenoid movement in a soft robot (J. Royal Soc. Interface, Nov 2018)
- Soft wall-climbing robots (Science Robotics, Dec 2018)
- Chasing biomimetic locomotion speeds: Creating untethered soft robots with shape memory alloy actuators (Science Robotics, Dec 2018)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Control of a muscle-like soft actuator via a bioinspired approach (Bioinspiration. Biomim., Oct 2018)
- Modeling of soft robots actuated by twisted-and-coiled actuators (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Oct 2018)
- A soft aquatic actuator for unsteady peak power amplification (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Oct 2018)
- Introducing series elastic links for affordable torque-controlled robots (IEEE RAL, Oct 2018)
- Reverse pneumatic artificial muscles (rPAMs): Modeling, integration, and control (PLoS ONE, Oct 2018)
- Inflating to shape (Nat. Mater., Nov 2018)
- Predicting leaky heart valves with 3D printing (Wyss Institute, Dec 2018)
* Soft robot application:
- A dexterous, glove-based teleoperable low-power soft robotic arm for delicate deep-sea biological exploration (Sci. Rep., Oct 2018)
- The effects of variable mechanical parameters on peak power and energy consumption of ankle-foot prostheses at different speeds (Adv. Robotics, Oct 2018)
- Rotorigami: A rotary origami protective system for robotic rotorcraft (Science Robotics, Oct 2018)
- A soft pneumatic actuator as a haptic wearable device for upper limb amputees: Toward a soft robotic liner (IEEE RAL, Oct 2018)
* Embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- Effect of toe joint stiffness and toe shape on walking biomechanics (Bioinspiration. Biomim., Oct 2018)
- Mechanics of wet adhesion in soft interaction with patterned morphology (Bioinspiration. Biomim., Nov 2018)
- Predicting the mean first passage time (MFPT) to reach any state for a passive dynamic walker with steady state variability (PLoS ONE, Nov 2018)
- On the biological mechanics and energetics of the hip joint muscle–tendon system assisted by passive hip exoskeleton (Bioinspiration. Biomim., Dec 2018)
Popular Articles
- Elephant trunks derive power and finesse by simulating bone joints (CosmoMagazine, Oct 2018)
- Origami cushions protect drones from collisions (ICL News, Oct 2018)
- Robots getting a grip on general manipulation (IEEE Spectrum, Nov 2018)
- Graphene unlocks new potential for ‘smart textiles’ (New Electronics, Dec 2018)
- Predicting leaky heart valves with 3D printing (Wyss Institute, Dec 2018)
- Graphene unlocks new potential for ‘smart textiles’ (New Electronics, Dec 2018)