Highlighted News
* Special Issue on “Design Optimization of Soft Robots” in IEEE RAM. Submission procedure can be found here. Submission Deadline: 1 February 2020
* Special Issue in the areas of “Open Soft Robotics Research” in PLOS ONE. Submission Deadline: 7 February 2020
* October issue of Soft Robotics is already online
* Five Marie Curie Fellow positions related to tactile sensing and soft skin available at BEST Group, University of Glasgow, as part of EU funded Innovative Training Network (ITN) project – Neutoch and INTUITIVE. For more information, please refer to this link or send an email to the following address.
* Call for IEEE-RAS RoboSoft next organizers: RoboSoft 2021 and RoboSoft 2022. Please contact the chair of Robosoft steering committee for more information.
* In just a few months, the new podcast program has attracted approximately five thousand audiences from more than 50 countries. The full interview podcasts can be found here.
New Videos
* Vine robots: Design, teleoperation, and deployment for navigation and exploration (Oct 2019)
Published Journal
* Related review:
- Advanced functional materials for soft robotics: Tuning physicochemical properties beyond rigidity control (Multifunctional Materials, Oct 2019)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Hybrid jamming for bioinspired soft robotic fingers (Soft Robotics, Nov 2019)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- On-demand orbital maneuver of multiple soft robots via hierarchical magnetomotility (Nat. Commun., Oct 2019)
- Soft mobile robot inspired by animal-like running motion (Sci. Rep., Oct 2019)
- Controlled flight of a microrobot powered by soft artificial muscles (Nature, Nov 2019)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Color-based proprioception of soft actuators interacting with objects (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Oct 2019)
- Fiber optic shape sensing for soft robotics (Soft Robotics, Oct 2019)
- Flexible temperature sensor integrated with soft pneumatic microactuators for functional microfingers (Sci. Rep., Oct 2019)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Visible and infrared three-wavelength modulated multi-directional actuators (Nat. Commun., Oct 2019)
- Magnetic quadrupole assemblies with arbitrary shapes and magnetizations (Sci. Robot., Oct 2019)
- Neuromuscular actuation of biohybrid motile bots (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Oct 2019)
- 3D-printing and machine learning control of soft ionic polymer-metal composite actuators (Sci. Report., Nov 2019)
* Soft robot application:
- Homeostasis and soft robotics in the design of feeling machines (Nat. Mach. Intell., Oct 2019)
- Vine Robots: Design, teleoperation, and deployment for navigation and exploration (IEEE Robot Autom Mag., Nov 2019)
* Embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- Nanomagnetic encoding of shape-morphing micromachines (Nature, Nov 2019)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Stretchable elastic synaptic transistors for neurologically integrated soft engineering systems (Sci. Adv., Oct 2019)
Conference Articles
- Energy harvesting in soft robot locomotion with complex dynamics (IEEE CIS-RAM, Nov 2019)
- Design and analysis of a gripper with interchangeable soft fingers for ungrounded mobile robots (IEEE CIS-RAM, Nov 2019)
- Design and characterization of a novel vacuum bending actuator and a bimorph: For preliminary use in a continuum robot arm (IEEE CIS-RAM, 2019)
Popular Articles
- New soft actuators could make soft robots less bulky (ScienceDaily, Oct 2019)
- Researchers build a soft robot with neurologic capabilities (ScienceDaily, Oct 2019)
- Soft microbots programmed by nanomagnets (Nature News and Views, Nov 2019)
- MIT researchers develop a much better way to optimize the control of soft robots (Techcrunch, Nov 2019)
- Smash This Robot (IEEE Spectrum, Dec 2019)
- This tiny, soft robo-bug scoots with smarts and survives swats (Techcrunch, Dec 2019)
- Self-propelling DEAnsect soft robots gear up to swarm (TheEngineer, Dec 2019)