Highlighted News
* Article about e-skin became the main topic of IEEE Spectrum magazine (August 2013)
* More media coverage for SoftRobot 2013 (July 2013): Electrosuisse homepage
Upcoming Events
* IROS 2013 Workshop on Soft Technologies for Wearable Robots (November 2013)
* Call for papers special issue: “Soft Actuators” (Deadline: December 2013)
Published Journal Articles
* Review:
- Soft robots (Current Biology, August 2013)
- Variable impedance actuators: A review (Robotics and Autonomous Systems, August 2013)
- Soft-robotics [TC Spotlight] (IEEE Robot. Autom. Mag., Sept. 2013)
* Soft locomotion:
- A bio-inspired study on tidal energy extraction with flexible flapping wing (Bioinspir. Biomim., August 2013)
- Efficient worm-like locomotion: slip and control of soft-bodied peristaltic robots (Bioinspir. Biomim., August 2013)
- True-slime-mould-inspired hydrostatically coupled oscillator system exhibiting versatile behaviours (Bioinspir. Biomim., August 2013)
- Biomimetic design of elastomer surface pattern for friction control under wet conditions (Bioinspir. Biomim., August 2013)
- Animal biomechanics: a new silent partner in the control of motion (Current Biology, August 2013)
- Phase-field approach to chemotactic driving of neutrophil morphodynamics (Phys. Rev. E, August 2013)
* Soft sensing:
- A reconfigurable plasmofluidic lens (Nat Commun., August 2013)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- A clear advance in soft actuators (Science: Perspective, August 2013)
- Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting (Nat Commun., August 2013)
- Elastic models of the fast traps of carnivorous Dionaea and Aldrovanda (Phys. Rev. E, September 2013)
* Morphological computation, self organization:
- DNA-directed self-assembly of shape-controlled hydrogels (Nat Commun., September 2013)
* Soft-matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Stretchable, transparent, ionic conductors (Science, August 2013)
- Carbon nanotubes on a spider silk scaffold (Nat Commun., Sept 2013)
Popular Article
- Robotic plant learns to grow like the real thing (NewScientist, August 2013)