Highlighted News
* Call for paper: IEEE Robosoft 2019, submission deadline is November 1
* August issue of Soft Robotics are already online
* A funded postdoc position at Soft Robotics and Biodesign lab, Robotics Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). For further information, please email guguoying@sjtu.edu.cn
* Tufts University Department of Mechanical Engineering is searching for a faculty member at the assistant or associate professor level. Questions about the position should be addressed to Dr. Gary Leisk, search committee chair, at gary.leisk@tufts.edu
New Videos
* Watch robotic ‘skins’ give life to inanimate toys (Sep 2018)
* Watch these alienlike robots weave a bus-size fiberglass structure—all by themselves (Sep 2018)
* Design, modeling, and control of a soft robotic arm (Oct, 2018)
* 4D-printed plants move like the real thing (Oct 2018)
Published Journal Articles
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed soft robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate deep-sea organisms (PLoS ONE, Aug 2018)
- A dexterous, glove-based teleoperable low-power soft robotic arm for delicate deep-sea biological exploration (Sci. Rep., Oct 2018)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- A bioinspired multilegged soft millirobot that functions in both dry and wet conditions (Nat. Commun., Sept 2018)
- Thrust force characterization of free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish (Bioinspiration. Biomim., Sept 2018)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- OmniSkins: Robotic skins that turn inanimate objects into multifunctional robots (Science Robotics, Sept 2018)
- Fully laser-patterned stretchable microsupercapacitors integrated with soft electronic circuit components (NPG Asia Mat., Sep 2018)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Fabrication of soft pneumatic network actuators with oblique chambers (J. Vis. Exp., Aug 2018)
- Online reconfiguration of a variable-stiffness actuator (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Aug 2018)
- Fiber embroidery of self-sensing soft actuators (Biomimetics, Sept 2018)
- A soft artificial muscle driven robot with reinforcement learning (Sci. Rep., Sept 2018)
- Programmable deformations of networked inflated dielectric elastomer actuators (IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, Sept 2018)
- A soft active origami robot (Extreme Mechanics Letters, Oct 2018)
- Modular and programmable material systems drawing from the architecture of skeletal muscle (Phys. Rev. E, Oct 2018)
- Two-wavelength infrared responsive hydrogel actuators containing rare-earth photothermal conversion particles (Sci. Rep., Sep 2018)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Stretchable electronics on another level (Nat. Electron., Aug 2018)
* Soft robot application:
- Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed soft robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate deep-sea organisms (PLoS ONE, August 2018)
- Bio-inspired upper limb soft exoskeleton to reduce stroke-induced complications (Bioinspiration. Biomim., Aug 2018)
- Walking and running with passive compliance: Lessons from engineering: A live demonstration of the ATRIAS Biped (IEEE Robot. Autom. Mag, Sept 2018)
* Embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- Morphological intelligence counters foot slipping in the desert locust and dynamic robots (Proc Natl Acad Sci, Aug 2018)
- The effects of wing twist in slow-speed flapping flight of birds: trading brute force against efficiency (Bioinspiration. Biomim., Aug 2018)
- How morphological development can guide evolution (Sci. Rep., Sept 2018)
- Computational model for tactile sensing system with wrinkle’s morphological change (Adv. Robot., Sept 2018)
- Bioinspired 3D structures with programmable morphologies and motions (Nat. Commun., Sep 2018)
Conference Articles
- Mass-spring damper array as a mechanical medium for computation (ICANN 2018)
- A quasi-static model for studying physical interaction between a soft robotic digit and a human finger (ASME 2018)
Popular Articles
- Glasgow researchers embed nanowires in flexible surfaces for bendable electronics manufacturing (ElectronicsWeekly, Aug 2018)
- 3D printed intelligent robotic fish helps underwater exploration (3Ders.org, Aug 2018)
- New research takes us one step closer to a bionic eye (Gizmodo, Aug 2018)
- Soft multi-functional robots get really small (Robohub, Aug 2018)
- A soft, on-the-fly solution to a hard, underwater problem (Robohub, Aug 2018)
- Smarty pants: Robot trousers could keep the elderly mobile (BBC News, Sep 2018),
- Multi-joint, personalized soft exosuit breaks new ground (Wyss Institute, Sep 2018)
- Flexible sensor encodes tactile stimuli into physiological signals (EEnews, Sep 2018)
- DelFly Nimble mimics the high-speed escape of fruit flies (Robohub, Sept 2018)
- A new spin for soft micro-actuators (Robohub, Sept 2018)
- Light, thin VR gloves put wearers in touch with virtual objects (NewAtlas, Oct 2018)
- Graphene printing technique “silk screens” flexible electronics (IEEE Spectrum, Oct 2018)
- A squishy robot that can help study underwater reefs (NBC News, Oct 2018)