Highlighted News
* The first IEEE Conference on Soft Robotics (Robosoft 2018) will be held on April 24-28, 2018 (deadline for paper submission: December 1, 2017)
* September issue of Soft Robotics is already online
* Special issue on Morphological Design for Haptic Interaction and Perception on Advanced Robotics
New Videos
* New soft robots suck! (August 2017)
* Electrostatic gripper for flexible objects (Sept. 2017)
* Novel bioinspired hexapod robot developed by soft dielectric elastomer actuators (Sept. 2017)
* Flippy: A Soft, autonomous climber with simple sensing and control (Sept. 2017)
* This robotic ‘remora’ can cling to objects with a force 340 times its own weight (Oct. 2017)
* Special issue on Morphological Design for Haptic Interaction and Perception on Advanced Robotics
Published Journal Articles
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Control space reduction and real-time accurate modelling of continuum manipulators using Ritz and Ritz-Galerkin method (IEEE RA-L, August 2017)
- A soft multi-module manipulator with variable stiffness for minimally invasive surgery (Bioinspir. Biomim., Sept. 2017)
- A biorobotic adhesive disc for underwater hitchhiking inspired by the remora suckerfish (Science Robotics, Sept 2017)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Dynamical analysis and development of a biologically inspired SMA caterpillar robot (Bioinspir. Biomim., Sept. 2017)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Inorganic semiconducting materials for flexible and stretchable electronics (npj Flexible Electronics, Sept. 2017)
- An extremely simple macroscale electronic skin realized by deep machine learning (npj Flexible Electronics, Sept. 2017)
- Wrin’Tac: Tactile sensing system with wrinkle’s morphological change (IEEE Trans. Ind. Informat., Oct. 2017)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities (Science Robotics, August 2017)
- Light-triggered soft artificial muscles: Molecular-level amplification of actuation control signals (Sci. Rep., August 2017)
- Elastic inflatable actuators for soft robotic applications (Adv. Mater., Sept 2017)
- Topology optimization of hyperelastic structures using a level set method (J. Comput. Phys., Sept 2017)
- Soft material for soft actuators (Nat. Commun., Sept. 2017)
- Modeling of viscoelastic electromechanical behavior in a soft dielectric elastomer actuator (IEEE Trans. Robot, Oct 2017)
- Multiple-degrees-of-freedom dielectric elastomer actuators for soft printable hexapod robot (Sens. Actuators A Phys., Oct. 2017)
* Soft robot fabrication, growing robot, self-healing robot:
- Self-healing soft pneumatic robots (Science Robotics, August 2017)
- Self-healing and damage resilience for soft robotics: A review (Front. Robot AI, Oct 2016)
* Morphological computation, morphological change, self-organization:
- Artificial insect wings with biomimetic wing morphology and mechanical properties (Bioinspir. Biomim., Sept. 2017)
- Artificial Manduca sexta forewings for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles: how wing structure affects performance (Bioinspir. Biomim., Sept. 2017)
- Artificial ‘skin’ gives robotic hand a sense of touch (KurzweilAI, Sept. 2017)
Conference Articles
- Twelve papers are presented in “Soft Material Robotics” sessions in IEEE IROS
- Workshop on “Soft Morphological Design for Haptic Sensation, Interaction and Display” was held in IEEE IROS
- Design and analysis of soft grippers for hand rehabilitation (ASME MSEC 2017)
Popular Articles
- Watch this soft robot heal like Wolverine (Science News, August 2017)
- Blossom: A handmade approach to social robotics from Cornell and Google (IEEE Spectrum, August 2017)
- This self-healing robot can regenerate after being stabbed (New Scientist, August 2017)
- Robots can hitch-hike on sharks thanks to ultrastrong sucker (New Scientiest, Sept 2017)
- Skin colouration in silicone wearables (Interactivearchitecture.org, Sept. 2017)
- Artificial ‘skin’ gives robotic hand a sense of touch (KurzweilAI, Sept. 2017)
- Scientists remove one of the final barriers to making lifelike robots (KurzweilAI, Sept. 2017)
- A battery-free origami robot powered and controlled by external magnetic fields (KurzweilAI, Sept. 2017)
- Could we build a blade runner-style ‘replicant’? (The conversation, Oct. 2017)
- New transistor design enables flexible, high-performance wearable/mobile electronics (KurzweilAI, Oct. 2017)
- An edible actuator for ingestible robots (IEEE Spectrum, Oct. 2017)