Highlighted News
* Special Issue on “Design Optimization of Soft Robots” in IEEE RAM. Submission Deadline: 1 February 2020
* Special Issue in the areas of “Open Soft Robotics Research” in PLOS ONE. Submission Deadline: 7 February 2020
* October issue of Soft Robotics is already online
New Videos
* A soft matter computer for soft robots (Aug 2019)
* Materials tactile logic via innervated soft thermochromic elastomers (Sept 2019)
* Khalifa University – Flagellate underwater robotics (Sept 2019)
* Anguilliform swimming performance of an eel inspired robot (Oct 2019)
Published Journal
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Ultragentle manipulation of delicate structures using a soft robotic gripper (Sci. Robot, Aug 2019)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Untethered soft robotic matter with passive control of shape morphing and propulsion (Sci. Robot, Aug 2019)
- Soft phototactic swimmer based on self-sustained hydrogel oscillator (Sci. Robot, Aug 2019)
- Ferromagnetic soft continuum robots (Sci. Robot, Aug 2019)
- Moving with fluid control (Nat. Rev. Mater., Sept 2019)
- Soft mobile robot inspired by animal-like running motion (Sci. Rep., Oct 2019)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Multifunctional metallic backbones for origami robotics with strain sensing and wireless communication capabilities (Sci. Robot, Aug 2019)
- A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time (Nat. Commun., Sept 2019)
- Materials tactile logic via innervated soft thermochromic elastomers (Nat. Commun., Sept 2019)
- Soft wearable skin-stretch device for haptic feedback using twisted and coiled polymer actuators (IEEE Trans. Haptics, Sept 2019)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- MXene artificial muscles based on ionically cross-linked Ti3C2Tx electrode for kinetic soft robotics (Sci. Robot, Aug 2019)
- Programming curvilinear paths of flat inflatables (Proc Natl Acad Sci, Aug 2019)
- A magnetically coupled dielectric elastomer pump for soft robotics (Adv. Mater., August 2019)
- Multi-stimuli-responsive programmable biomimetic actuator (Nat. Commun., Sept 2019)
- Scaling laws of compliant elements for high energy storage capacity in robotics (Mech. Mach. Theory, Sept 2019)
- Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer–based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation (Sci. Adv., Oct 2019)
- Visible and infrared three-wavelength modulated multi-directional actuators (Nat. Commun., Oct 2019)
- Design and characterization of artificial muscles from wedge-like pneumatic soft modules (Sens. Actuator A-Phys, Oct 2019)
* Soft robot application:
- An actuatable soft reservoir modulates host foreign body response (Sci. Robot, Aug 2019)
* Embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- A soft matter computer for soft robots (Sci. Robot, Aug 2019)
- Homeostasis and soft robotics in the design of feeling machines (Nat. Mach. Intell., Oct 2019)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Materials tactile logic via innervated soft thermochromic elastomers (Nat. Commun., Sept 2019)
- Stretchable elastic synaptic transistors for neurologically integrated soft engineering systems (Sci. Adv., Oct 2019)
Conference Articles
- Nonlinear system identification and state estimation in a pneumatic based soft continuum robot (IEEE CCTA, August 2019)
Popular Articles
- Stretchy wearable patch allows two-way communication with robots (IEEE Spectrum, Aug 2019)
- These robo-shorts are the precursor to a true soft exoskeleton (TechCrunch, Aug 2019)
- Scientists made a robotic hand so soft it can handle a jelly fish (InterestingEngineering, Aug 2019)
- Soft computer logic for soft robots (ASME, Sep 2019)
- Soft self-healing materials for robots that cannot be destroyed (IEEE Spectrum, Sept 2019)
- A soft matter computer for soft robots (Robohub, Oct 2019)