Announcements
- IEEE RoboSoft (April 23-26) Workshops:
- The Future of Tensegrity Robotics: Grand Challenges (Deadline March 23)
- Soft Robotic Actuation and Sensing Based on Functional Materials (Deadline March 28)
- Call for contributions: 2025 Symposium on the Future of Soft Robotics (April 9-11) organized by the SPP2100
- DARPA Funding: HyBRIDS: Hybridizing Biology and Robotics through Integration for Deployable Systems (Deadline April 7)
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Featured Videos
- MOGrip: Gripper for Multi-Object Grasping in Pick-and-Place Tasks via Translational Finger Movements
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Views and Reviews
- Robots that Can Survive the Egg Drop (Frontiers, Nov-24)
- Stretchable Shape Sensing and Computation for General Shape-Changing Robots (Annual Rev., Oct-24)
- Biodegradable Dielectric Elastomer Actuators and Sensors (IEEE RA-L, Nov-24)
- A Review of Methods and Applications for Improving Electric Driving Performance of Dielectric Elastomer (IEEE T-Dielectrics, Oct-24)
- Understanding the sense of self through robotics (Science, Oct-24)
- Paleoinspired robotics as an experimental approach to the history of life (Science, Oct-24)
- Architectured soft materials as autonomous microrobots (Nature, Nov-24)
- Soft Robotics in Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation and Assistance: Current Clinical Evidence and Recommendations
- Soft Robotics in Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation and Assistance: Current Clinical Evidence and Recommendations (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- How Do Combustions Actuate High-Speed Soft Robots? (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Soft Robotic Devices for Mechanotherapy of the Upper and Lower Extremities (Wiley, Dec-24)
- Comprehensive Analysis on Design, Working, and Manufacturing of Soft Robots (Wiley, Dec-24)
- Super-adaptive electroactive programmable adhesive materials to challenging surfaces: From intelligent soft robotics to XR haptic interfaces (Wiley, Nov-24)
- Deep Learning Methods in Soft Robotics: Architectures and Applications (Wiley, Nov-24)
- Learning Controllers for Continuum Soft Manipulators: Impact of Modeling and Looming Challenges (Wiley, Nov-24)
New Materials, Actuators & Stiffening Methods
- Design and Performance Analysis of a Single-Port Bidirectional Soft Actuator and Its Integration Into a Versatile 3-Finger Robot Gripper (IEEE Access, Dec-24)
- Augment Laminar Jamming Variable Stiffness Through Electroadhesion and Vacuum Actuation (IEEE T-RO, Dec-24)
- Magnetic Wall-Climbing Wheels With Controllable Adhesion Reduction via Soft Magnetic Material (IEEE RA-L, Nov-24)
- Soft Crawling Robot With a Dual-Morphing Origami Configuration (IEEE T-MRB, Oct-24)
- Serially Coupled Self-Excited Pneumatic Actuator for Environment-Adaptive Steering Robot (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- Steerable Flipping Elastic Robot That Leverages Elastic Energy Through Both Bending and Twisting Deformation (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- Multiple-Connected Variable Outer Diameter Pigs Using Pneumatic Artificial Muscle for Inspecting Narrow and Complex Pipeline, Including Many Bend Pipes (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- An agile multimodal microrobot with architected passively morphing wheels (Science, Dec-24)
- Magnetic kirigami dome metasheet with high deformability and stiffness for adaptive dynamic shape-shifting and multimodal manipulation (Science, Dec-24)
- Programming liquid crystal elastomers for multistep ambidirectional deformability (Science, Dec-24)
- Granular metamaterials with dynamic bond reconfiguration (Science, Dec-24)
- Temperature-responsive metamaterials made of highly sensitive thermostat metal strips (Science, Dec-24)
- Heterogeneous multiple soft millirobots in three-dimensional lumens (Science, Nov-24)
- A fully integrated breathable haptic textile (Science, Oct-24)
- Self-healing actuatable electroluminescent fibres (Nature, Dec-24)
- Shape-morphing of metastructures empowering locomotion (Nature, Oct-24)
- A Novel Pneudraulic Actuation Method to Enhance Soft Robot Control (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Ultralow Voltage High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Electro-Ionic Actuators for Soft Robots (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- A Rolling Soft Robot Driven by Local Snap-Through Buckling (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- FluidicOscillation-BasedPneumaticActuationfor SoftLocomotionandGrasping (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Design and Analytical Modeling of a Dumbbell-Shaped Balloon Anchoring Actuator for Safe and Efficient Locomotion Inside Gastrointestinal Tract (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Design and Analysis of Reconfigurable Origami-Based Vacuum Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Versatile Robotic System (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Perceptually Inspired C0-Continuity Haptic Shape Display with Trichamber Soft Actuators (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Woven Fabric Muscle for Soft Wearable Robotic Application Using Two-Dimensional Zigzag Shape Memory Alloy Actuator (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- A Reconfigurable Soft Linkage Robot via Internal “Virtual” Joints (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Development of a Variable-Pitch Flexible-Screw-Driven Continuum Robot (FSDCR) with Motion Decoupling Capability (SoRo Journal, Nov-24)
- Reconfigurable origami with variable stiffness joints for adaptive robotic locomotion and grasping (Royal Society, Oct-24)
- Annelids-Inspired Modular Design of Multi-Modal Deformation for Magnetic Soft Robots (Wiley, Dec-24)
- A Motion-Sensing Integrated Soft Robot with Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Pipeline Inspection (Wiley, Dec-24)
- Emerging Applications of Smart Hydrogel Nanocomposites in 3D Printing (Wiley, Dec-24)
- Modular Stimuli-Responsive Valves for Pneumatic Soft Robots (Wiley, Dec-24)
- Clutchable Fabric Actuator for Energy-Efficient Wearable Robots (Wiley, Dec-24)
- MXene Hydrogels for Soft Multifunctional Sensing: A Synthesis-Centric Review (Wiley, Nov-24)
- Azobenzene-Functionalized Semicrystalline Liquid Crystal Elastomer Springs for Underwater Soft Robotic Actuators (Wiley, Oct-24)
- Hierarchically Reconfigurable Soft Robots with Reprogrammable Multimodal Actuation (Wiley, Nov-24)
- Blue Light Controlled Supramolecular Soft Robotics of Phenylazothiazole Amphiphiles for Rapid Macroscopic Actuations (Wiley, Oct-24)
- A Soft Mimic Robotic Arm Powered by Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (Wiley, Oct-24)
- Frequency-Controlled Fluidic Oscillators for Soft Robots (Wiley, Oct-24)
Sensing, Flexible Electronic & Skins
- Multipole Magnetic Tactile Sensor With Super-Resolution for 3-D Pose Estimation (IEEE TIM, Dec-24)
- A High-Sensitivity Flexible Stretchable Fiber-Optic Sensor Based on the Waveguide Loss Principle (IEEE TIM, Dec-24)
- Integrating Human-Like Impedance Regulation and Model-Based Approaches for Compliance Discrimination via Biomimetic Optical Tactile Sensors (IEEE T-RO, Dec-24)
- Modeling and Simulation of Microstructure Geometry and Material Type on Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensors by Finite Element Analysis (IEEE Sensors, Dec-24)
- Analysis of Embroidered Strain Sensors in the Presence of Dynamic Forces (IEEE Sensors, Dec-24)
- Development of SWCNTs/PDMS Composite Strain Sensors Integrated Smart Glove for Human-Machine Interface Applications (IEEE Sensors, Dec-24)
- Soft Self-Healing Damage Localization Sensor With Reduced Measuring Electrodes (IEEE Sensors, Dec-24)
- Magnetorheological Fluid for Adaptive Soft Robotics (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- A Body-Scale Robotic Skin Using Distributed Multimodal Sensing Modules: Design, Evaluation, and Application (IEEE T-RO, Nov-24)
- E-BTS: Event-Based Tactile Sensor for Haptic Teleoperation in Augmented Reality (IEEE T-RO, Nov-24)
- Fabrication and Characterization of a Soft and Stretchable Capacitive Strain Sensor for Hand Gesture Recognition (IEEE Sensors, Nov-24)
- Flexible Electrospun Nanofibers for Tactile Sensing and Integrated System Research (IEEE Sensors, Nov-24)
- Honeycomb-Inspired Metamaterial for Tactile Sensors With Variable Stiffness (IEEE Sensors, Nov-24)
- Soft Magnetic Skin With Motion and Contact Sensing for Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger (IEEE RA-L, Nov-24)
- Embedded Force Sensor for Soft Robots With Deep Transformation Calibration (IEEE T-MRB, Oct-24)
- The multifunctional use of an aqueous battery for a high capacity jellyfish robot (Science, Nov-24)
- Stiffness-tunable velvet worm–inspired soft adhesive robot (Science, Nov-24)
- Additively manufactured micro-lattice dielectrics for multiaxial capacitive sensors (Science, Oct-24)
- Sensing expectation enables simultaneous proprioception and contact detection in an intelligent soft continuum robot (Nature, Nov-24)
- Self-healing electronic skin with high fracture strength and toughness (Nature, Nov-24)
- Flexible Electrical Energy Storage Structure with Variable Stiffness for Soft Robotics and Wearable Electronics (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- FDM-Printed CMOS Logic Gates from Flexing Beam Mechanisms for the Control of Soft Robotic Systems (Wiley, Nov-24)
Fabrication Techniques & Hardware Toolkits
- Design of Compliant Components in Linkage-Driven Prosthetic Fingers: A Multi-Material Printing-Based Method (IEEE Access, Dec-24)
- Cut, Bond and Play: Volume-Preserved Reprogrammable Soft Pneumatic Actuators (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics (Science, Dec-24)
- Upgrading and extending the life cycle of soft robots with in situ free-form liquid three-dimensional printing (Science, Dec-24)
- Activity-driven polymer knotting for macromolecular topology engineering (Science, Nov-24)
- Robo-Matter towards reconfigurable multifunctional smart materials (Nature, Oct-24)
- Printing Untethered Self-Reconfigurable, Self-Amputating Soft Robots from Recyclable Self-Healing Fibers (Wiley, Dec-24)
- 3D Printed Biodegradable Soft Actuators from Nanocellulose Reinforced Gelatin Composites (Wiley, Nov-24)
- Organic Ink Multi-Material 3D Printing of Sustainable Soft Systems (Wiley, Nov-24)
Locomotion, Swimming & Flying
- Optimal Gait Design for Nonlinear Soft Robotic Crawlers (IEEE L-CSS, Dec-24)
- Design and gait research of pneumatic soft quadruped robot (SAGE, Dec-24)
- Spontaneous snapping-induced jet flows for fast, maneuverable surface and underwater soft flapping swimmer (Science, Dec-24)
Manipulation & Grasping
- Computational Design of Customized Vacuum-Driven Soft Grippers (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- Kinetostatics and Retention Force Analysis of Soft Robot Grippers With External Tendon Routing (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- Autologous Variable Stiffness Soft Finger Based on Cross-Layer Jamming for Multimode Grasping (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- Soft Human-Robot Handover Using a Vision-Based Pipeline (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- PneuNet Based Hybrid Soft Gripper for Multi-Shape Object Handling (IEEE Access, Dec-24)
- A Dexterous and Compliant (DexCo) Hand Based on Soft Hydraulic Actuation for Human-Inspired Fine In-Hand Manipulation (IEEE T-RO, Nov-24)
- BerryTwist: A Twisting-Tube Soft Robotic Gripper for Blackberry Harvesting (IEEE RA-L, Nov-24)
- Trident: A Multi-Functional Soft Appendage for Underwater Locomotion and Grasping (IEEE RA-L, Nov-24)
- A Rigid-Flexible-Soft Coupled Dexterous Hand With Sliding Tactile Perception and Feedback (IEEE RA-L, Nov-24)
- Simulation, Design, and Application of Intelligent-Edge-Based Soft Magnetic Tactile Sensor With Super-Resolution (IEEE Sensors, Nov-24)
- TacPalm: A Soft Gripper With a Biomimetic Optical Tactile Palm for Stable Precise Grasping (IEEE Sensors, Oct-24)
- Design and analysis of soft flexible gripper of robot using Taguchi-fuzzy logic analysis (SAGE, Oct-24)
- MOGrip: Gripper for multiobject grasping in pick-and-place tasks using translational movements of fingers (Science, Dec-24)
- Research on the operational properties of the soft gripper pads (Nature, Dec-24)
- Toward Damage-Less Robotic Fragile Fruit Grasping: A Closed-Loop Force Control Method for Pneumatic-Driven Soft Gripper (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Model-Based Design of Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Actuated by Smart Hydrogels (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- A Soft-Rigid Gripper for Safe Handling and Transportation (Wiley, Dec-24)
- A Soft-Containing Gripper for High-Speed Handling of Breadcrumb-Coated Oysters (Wiley, Dec-24)
- Optimizing the grasping behavior of a soft robot’s gripper (Wiley, Oct-24)
Biomimicry & Bioinspiration
- Spider-Inspired Pneumatic Folding Membrane Soft Actuator (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- Deformation Control and Thrust Analysis of a Flexible Fishtail With Muscle-Like Actuation (IEEE T-RO, Nov-24)
- A Controllable Nonlinear Bistable “Fishtail” Boosting Robotic Swimmer with Excellent Maneuverability and High Energy Efficiency (SoRo Journal, Nov-24)
- Online Hydraulic Stiffness Modulation of a Soft Robotic Fish tail for Improved Thrust and Efficiency (SoRo Journal, Oct-24)
Soft Robot Applications
- Infiltration of Cell-Inspired Ultra-Deformable Magnetic Microrobots in Restrictive Environments (IEEE T-MRB, Nov-24)
- Design, Characterization, and Validation of a Variable Stiffness Prosthetic Elbow (IEEE T-RO, Nov-24)
- Soft robotic shorts improve outdoor walking efficiency in older adults (Nature, Oct-24)
- 3D Printed Magnetic Bionic Robot Inspired by Octopus for Drug Transportation (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Impedance for Assistance: Upper-Limb Assistive Soft Robotic Suit Using Linked-Layer Jamming Mechanisms (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Aloe Leaves-Inspired Multi-Stimuli Bidirectional Bending Self-Sensing Actuator for Smart Solar Panel (Wiley, Dec-24)
- Actuation-Mediated Compression of a Mechanoresponsive Hydrogel by Soft Robotics to Control Release of Therapeutic Proteins (Wiley, Dec-24)
Theory: Learning, Modeling, & Control
- Inverse Design of Snap-Actuated Jumping Robots Powered by Mechanics-Aided Machine Learning (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- Control Pneumatic Soft Bending Actuator With Feedforward Hysteresis Compensation by Pneumatic Physical Reservoir Computing (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- Soft Synergies: Model Order Reduction of Hybrid Soft-Rigid Robots via Optimal Strain Parameterization (IEEE T-RO, Dec-24)
- Soft Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Machine Learning (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- A Motion Planner for Growing Reconfigurable Inflated Beam Manipulators in Static Environments (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- Dynamic Shape Estimation of Tendon-Driven Soft Manipulators via Actuation Readings (IEEE RA-L, Dec-24)
- Encoding Desired Deformation Profiles in Endoscope-Like Soft Robots (IEEE T-MRB, Nov-24)
- Learning-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Articulated Soft Robots Using Recurrent Neural Networks (IEEE RA-L, Nov-24)
- Physics-Guided Deep Learning Enabled Surrogate Modeling for Pneumatic Soft Robots (IEEE RA-L, Nov-24)
- Learning Based Exteroception of Soft Underwater Manipulator With Soft Actuator Network (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- State Estimation by Joint Approach With Dynamic Modeling and Observer for Soft Actuator (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- Design and Shape Control of Robotic Morphing Interface With Reprogrammable Stiffness Based on Machine Learning (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- Analysis and Verification on Backstepping Control of Antagonistic Variable Stiffness Actuators (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- Comparative Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms for PID Controller Optimization in Pneumatic Soft Robotic Systems: A Simulation and Experimental Study (IEEE Access, Oct-24)
- Characterization and Modeling of Fabric-Based Pneumatic Actuators With Asymmetric Chambers for Soft Gloves (IEEE RA-L, Oct-24)
- Model-Based Tracking Control of a Soft Growing Robot for Colonoscopy (IEEE T-MRB, Oct-24)
- A Koopman-based residual modeling approach for the control of a soft robot arm (Sage, Oct-24)
- Pneumatic coding blocks enable programmability of electronics-free fluidic soft robots (Science, Dec-24)
- An empirical model of soft bellows actuator (Nature, Nov-24)
- Optimal Sensor Placement for Motion Tracking of Soft Wearables Using Bayesian Sampling (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- A Computational Approach for Internal Tendon Routing Channels in a Tendon-Driven Continuum Joint (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- A Novel and Accurate BiLSTM Configuration Controller for Modular Soft Robots with Module Number Adaptability (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors (SoRo Journal, Dec-24)
- Automatic Design Framework of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Neural Network-Based Real-Time Simulation, Genetic Algorithm-Based Electrode Optimization, and Experimental Verification (SoRo Journal, Nov-24)
- A Novel Parameter Estimation Method for Pneumatic Soft Hand Control Applying Logarithmic Decrement for Pseudo-Rigid Body Modeling (Wiley, Dec-24)
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