Highlighted News
* IEEE RAM published a special issue on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation along with other relevant articles (Issue 3, Sept 2016)
* The September issue of Soft Robotics journal is published
New Videos
* Mass control of pneumatic soft continuum actuators with commodity components
* High-force soft printable pneumatics for soft robotic applications
* Material challenges in human robot interaction
Published Journal Articles
* Related review / special issue:
- Soft robotics and morphological computation [From the guest editors] (IEEE RAM, Sept 2016)
- Contest-driven soft-robotics boost: The RoboSoft grand challenge (Front. Robot AI, Sept 2016)
- Variable stiffness actuators: Review on design and components (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Oct 2016)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Verification of throwing operation by a manipulator with variable viscoelastic joints with straight-fiber-type artificial muscles and magnetorheological brakes (Adv. Robotics, August 2016)
* Soft locomotion, compliant manipulation:
- Human-like compliant locomotion: State of the art of robotic implementations (Bioinspir. Biomim., August 2016)
- Underwater soft-bodied pulsed-jet thrusters: Actuator modeling and performance profiling (Int. J. Robot. Res, Sept 2016)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Robots with a sense of touch (Nature Materials: Commentary, August 2016)
- From biological cilia to artificial flow sensors: Biomimetic soft polymer nanosensors with high sensing performance (Sci. Rep., Sept 2016)
- Restoring touch (Nature Material, August 2016)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- A novel linear elastic actuator for minimally invasive surgery: development of a surgical gripper (Smart Mater. Struct., August 2016)
- Stretchable materials for robust soft actuators towards assistive wearable devices (Sci. Rep., Sept 2016)
- Modelling the nonlinear response of fibre-reinforced bending fluidic actuators (Smart Mater. Struct., Sept 2016)
- Interactions between dielectric elastomer actuators and soft bodies (Soft Robotics, Sept 2016)
* Soft robot application:
- A magnetic resonance compatible soft wearable robotic glove for hand rehabilitation and brain imaging (IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng, August 2016)
Soft robot fabrication, growing robot:
- An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots (Nature, August 2016)
- Highly-stretchable 3D-architected mechanical metamaterials (Sci. Rep., Sept 2016)
* Morphological computation, morphological change, self-organization, evolutionary design:
- Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., August 2016)
- Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., October 2016)
- Artificial metamorphosis: Evolutionary design of transforming, soft-bodied robots (Artificial Life, Sept 2016)
Books / Proceedings
- Soft robotics: Trends, applications and challenges (Proceedings of the Soft Robotics Week, Livorno, Italy)
- A biologically inspired soft robotic hand using chopsticks for grasping tasks (SAB 2016)
- Co-exploring actuator antagonism and bio-inspired control in a printable robot arm (SAB 2016)
Popular Articles
- Robot octopus points the way to soft robotics with eight wiggly arms (IEEE Spectrum, August 2016)
- Robotics: Generation soft (Nature: News & Views, August 2016)
- Festo’s fantastical flying robots (IEEE Spectrum, August 2016)
- ‘Octobot’ is the world’s first soft-bodied robot (Science-News, August 2016)
- Pneumatic octopus is first soft, solo robot (BBC News, August 2016)
- MIT unveils DuoSkin: Temporary tattoos that function as on-skin interfaces to interact with computers, mobile devices (Tech Times, August 2016)
- Alighting on soft robot rays (Nature Biotechnology: News & Views, Sept 2016)
- Disney robot with air-water actuators shows off “very fluid” motions (IEEE Spectrum, Sep 2016)
- Engineers work to improve that electric feel (Chemical & Engineering News, Oct 2016)