Highlighted News
* Session on Soft Bodied Robotics at IROS 2014 chaired by Jamie Paik (EPFL) and with the keynote speech by Cecilia Laschi (The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
* Recently launched soft robotics toolkit, the related press release can be found here
* Special session on “soft and underactuated robotics” at ICIAfS 2014
New Videos
* A low-friction passive fluid transmission and fluid-tendon soft actuator, scientific result was presented at IROS 2014
Published Journal Articles
* Related review:
- Robotics and neuroscience (Curr. Biol, Sept. 2014)
- Biorobotics: Using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion (Science, Oct. 2014)
* Soft manipulation:
- Identification and active exploration of deformable object boundary constraints through robotic manipulation (Int. J. Robot Res., Sept. 2014)
- On the visual deformation servoing of compliant objects: Uncalibrated control methods and experiments (Int. J. Robot Res., Sept. 2014)
- Noncontact orientation of objects in three-dimensional space using magnetic levitation (PNAS, Sept. 2014)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Effect of caudal fin flexibility on the propulsive efficiency of a fish-like swimmer (Bioinspir. Biomim., August 2014)
- Periodic spring–mass running over uneven terrain through feedforward control of landing conditions (Bioinspir. Biomim., August 2014)
- FILOSE for Svenning: A flow sensing bioinspired robot (IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag., Sept. 2014)
- A robotic crawler exploiting directional frictional interactions: experiments, numerics and derivation of a reduced model (Proc. R. Soc. A, Sept. 2014)
- Nonlinear dynamics of a rotating elastic rod in a viscous fluid (Phys. Rev. E, Sept. 2014)
- Active elastic dimers: Cells moving on rigid tracks (Phys. Rev. E, Sept. 2014)
- Locomotion of inchworm-inspired robot made of smart soft composite (SSC) (Bioinspir. Biomim., Oct. 2014)
- A simple running model with rolling contact and its role as a template for dynamic locomotion on a hexapod robot (Bioinspir. Biomim., Oct. 2014)
- 8-DoF biped robot with compliant-links (Robot. Auton. Syst., Oct. 2014)
- Sidewinding with minimal slip: Snake and robot ascent of sandy slopes (Science, Oct. 2014)
- Of snakes and robots (Science – Perspective, Oct. 2014)
- Locomotion of microorganisms near a no-slip boundary in a viscoelastic fluid (Phys. Rev. E, Oct. 2014)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- The feel of MEMS barometers: Inexpensive and easily customized tactile array sensors (IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag., August. 2014)
- Intrinsic low pass filtering improves signal-to-noise ratio in critical-point flexure biosensors (Apl. Phys. Lett., August 2014)
- Highly deformable liquid-state heterojunction sensors (Nat. Comunn, Sept. 2014)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Soft machines made like Lego (Nature, August 2014)
- Using “Click-e-Bricks” to make 3D elastomeric structures (Advanced Materials, September 2014)
- Dielectric elastomer actuators for octopus inspired suction cups (Bioinspir. Biomim., Sept. 2014)
- A unified system identification approach for a class of pneumatically-driven soft actuators (Robot. Auton. Syst., Sept. 2014)
- Soft robotic glove for combined assistance and at-home rehabilitation (Robot. Auton. Syst., Sept. 2014)
* Soft robot application:
- Human-robot skills transfer interfaces for a flexible surgical robot (Comput. Meth. Prog. Bio., Sept. 2014)
- Tissue removal inside the beating heart using a robotically delivered metal MEMS tool (Int. J. Robot Res., Sept. 2014)
* Morphological computation, morphological change, self-organization:
- Soft cells for programmable self-assembly of robotic modules (Soft Robotics, Sept. 2014)
- Exploiting short-term memory in soft body dynamics as a computational resource (J. R. Soc. Interface, Sept. 2014)
- A modular approach to adaptive structures (Bioinspir. Biomim., October 2014)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Nanocharacterization of the negative stiffness of ferroelectric materials (Appl. Phys. Lett., August 2014)
- Three-dimensionally deformable, highly stretchable, permeable, durable and washable fabric circuit boards (Proc. R. Soc. A, Sept. 2014)
- Extremely stretchable all-carbon-nanotube transistor on flexible and transparent substrates (Appl. Phys. Lett., Oct. 2014)
Conference Papers (IROS 2014)
- A new coefficient-adaptive orthonormal basis function model structure for identifying a class of pneumatic soft actuators
- Design of paper mechatronics: Towards a fully printed robot
- Development of a meal assistive exoskeleton made of soft materials
- Spatial parallel soft robotic architectures
- Whole arm planning for a soft and highly compliant 2D robotic manipulator
- An untethered jumping soft robot
- Motion pattern discrimination for soft robots with morphologically flexible sensors
- An active compliant control mode for interaction with a pneumatic soft robot
- Conformable actuation and sensing with robotic fabric
- Kinematics of a new class of smart actuators for soft robots based on generalized pneumatic artificial muscle
Popular Articles
- Graphene rubber bands: flexible, low-cost body sensors (KurzweilAI, August, 2014)
- Wireless robot octopus swims with the fishes (Scientific American, Sept. 2014)
- A stretchable, light-up surface inspired by squid skin (Wired, Sept. 2014)
- New fabric circuit boards can be worn, washed, stretched, and shot (Wired, Sept. 2014)
- GelSight sensor measures deformation of flexible manipulator surface (Robohub, Sept. 2014)
- Soft robotics ‘toolkit’ features everything a budding robot-maker needs (KurzweilAI, Sept. 2014)
- ‘Active clothing’ for soft robots (KurzweilAI, Sept. 2014)
- ‘Greener,’ low-cost transistor heralds advance in flexible electronics (KurzweilAI, Sept. 2014)
- Freaky soft robot walks through fire and ice (IEEE Spectrum, Sept. 2014)
- Supercapacitors from ‘crumpled graphene’ could power flexible electronic devices (KurzweilAI, Oct. 2014)
- The technology of Big Hero 6 (GeekDad, Oct. 2014)