Highlighted News
* A special issue on Design Optimization of Soft Robots is published in December issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
* December issue of Soft Robotics is already online
New Videos
* Large-scale vision-based tactile sensing for robot links: Design, modeling, and evaluation (Nov 2020)
Published Journal
* Related view and review:
- Design optimization of soft robots (IEE Robot Autom Mag, Dec 2020)
- Soft robotics: The journey thus far and the challenges ahead (IEEE Robot Autom Mag, Dec 2020)
- Design optimization of soft robots: A review of the state of the art (IEEE Robot Autom Mag, Dec 2020)
- Soft sensors that can feel it all (Sci Robot, Dec 2020)
- In the soft grip of nature (Sci Robot, Dec 2020)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- In situ stiffness manipulation using elegant curved origami (Sci Adv, Nov 2020)
- Bio‐inspired conformable and helical soft fabric gripper with variable stiffness and touch sensing
(Adv Mater Technol, Nov 2020) - A variable structure pneumatic soft robot (Sci Rep, Nov 2020)
- Dynamics of continuum and soft robots: A strain parameterization based approach (IEEE Trans Robot, Nov 2020)
- Underwater mobile manipulation: A soft arm on a benthic legged robot (IEEE Robot Autom Mag, Dec 2020)
- Design and optimization of a dextrous robotic finger: Incorporating a sliding, rotating, and soft-bending mechanism while maximizing dexterity and minimizing dimensions (IEEE Robot Autom Mag, Dec 2020)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Ultra-sensitive and resilient compliant strain gauges for soft machines (Nature, Nov 2020)
- Large-scale vision-based tactile sensing for robot links: Design, modeling, and evaluation
(IEEE Trans Robot, Nov 2020) - Heterogeneous sensing in a multifunctional soft sensor for human-robot interfaces (Sci Robot, Dec 2020)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Expanding pouch motor patterns for programmable soft bending actuation: Enabling soft robotic system adaptations (IEEE Robot Autom Mag, Dec 2020)
* Soft robot application:
- Investigating the effects of strapping pressure on human-robot interface dynamics using a soft robotic cuff (IEEE Trans Med Robot Bionics, Dec 2020)
- Design, modeling, control, and application of everting vine robots (Front Robot AI, Nov 2020)
* Soft robot fabrication, embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- A soft robot that adapts to environments through shape change (Nat Mach Intell, Nov 2020)
- Skills for physical artificial intelligence (Nat Mach Intell, Nov 2020)
- Room temperature self-healing in soft pneumatic robotics: Autonomous self-healing in a Diels-Alder polymer network (IEEE Robot Autom Mag, Dec 2020)
- Laser reprogramming magnetic anisotropy in soft composites for reconfigurable 3D shaping (Nat Commun, Dec 2020)
Conference Articles
- Adaptive neural CPG-based control for a soft robotic tentacle (Int Conf on Neural Information Processing)
- A tip mount for transporting sensors and tools using soft growing robots (IEEE IROS)
- On the use of (lockable) parallel elasticity in active prosthetic ankles (IEEE IROS)
- Estimation of energy minimizing series elastic spring stiffness for an active knee prosthesis (IEEE BIOROB)
- Multi-material 3D Printing of thermoplastic elastomers for development of soft robotic structures with integrated sensor elements (Int Conf on Additive Manufacturing in Products and Applications)
Popular Articles
- This ‘squidbot’ jets around and takes pics of coral and fish (Techxplore, Oct 2020)
- Poimo is a portable inflatable E-Bike (IEEE Spectrum, Oct 2020)
- These giant robots are made of air, fabric (IEEE Spectrum, Nov 2020)
- Jamming solids find use as all-purpose robotic skin (AdvancedScienceNews, Nov 2020)
- Shape-changing robots that adapt to their environments (Yale Univ. News, Nov 2020)
- Aquatic robot inspired by sea creatures walks, rolls, transports cargo (Techxplore, Dec 2020)
- The soft grip of animals inspires scientists to improve robots (Wageninen Univ. News, Dec 2020)
- A magnetically-controlled hydrogel for octopus-like robots (AdvancedScienceNews, Dec 2020)