Highlighted News
* Workshop on “Application-Oriented Modelling and Control of Soft Robots” will be organized in IEEE IROS 2020
* Recording of 2nd Soft Robotics debate: “Bridging the Gap Between Soft Robots and Soft Materials: Discovering New Material Functionalities vs. Creating Architected Compliance”
* October issue of Soft Robotics is already online
New Videos
* Material scientists learn how to make liquid crystal shape-shift (Sept 2020)
* Walking robot (Sept 2020)
* Poimo: Portable and inflatable mobility devices customizable for personal physical characteristics (Sept 2020)
* Pick, spin, place: Multi-step open-loop manipulation with the RBO Hand 3 (Oct 2020)
Published Journal
* Related view and review:
- Tensegrity metamaterials for soft robotics (Sci Robot, Aug 2020)
- Shape changing robots: Bioinspiration, simulation, and physical realization (Adv Mater, Sept 2020)
- Speedy soft robots (Nat Rev Mater, Sept 2020)
- Soft manipulation – editorial (Int J Robot Res, Oct 2020)
- 3D-printed multifunctional materials enabled by artificial-intelligence-assisted fabrication technologies (Nat Rev Mater, Oct 2020)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Compliant gripper design, prototyping, and modeling using screw theory formulation (Int J Robot Res, Aug 2020)
- Soft microtubule muscle-driven 3-axis skin-stretch haptic devices (IEEE Access, Aug 2020)
- A multimodal, enveloping soft gripper: Shape conformation, bioinspired adhesion, and expansion-driven suction (IEEE Trans Robot”, Sept 2020)
- A protein-coated micro-sucker patch inspired by octopus for adhesion in wet conditions (Sci Rep, Sept 2020)
- Hand closure model for planning top grasps with soft robotic hands (Int J Robot Res, Oct 2020)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- An 88-milligram insect-scale autonomous crawling robot driven by a catalytic artificial muscle (Sci Robot, Aug 2020)
- Detachment of the remora suckerfish disc: kinematics and a bio-inspired robotic model (Bioinspir Biomim, Aug 2020)
- Untethered and ultrafast soft-bodied robots (Comms Mater, Sept 2020)
- Rolling soft membrane-driven tensegrity robots (IEEE RA-L, Oct 2020)
- Light-steered locomotion of muscle-like hydrogel by self-coordinated shape change and friction modulation (Nat Commun, Oct 2020)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Self healable neuromorphic memtransistor elements for decentralized sensory signal processing in robotics (Nat Commun, Aug 2020)
- Hierarchically patterned self-powered sensors for multifunctional tactile sensing (Sci Adv, Aug 2020)
- Triboelectric nanogenerator sensors for soft robotics aiming at digital twin applications (Nat Commun, Oct 2020)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- In-air fast response and high speed jumping and rolling of a light-driven hydrogel actuator (Nat Commun, Aug 2020)
- Nonlinear electromechanical coupling in graded soft materials: Large deformation, instability, and electroactuation (Phys Rev E, Aug 2020)
- On the motion/stiffness decoupling property of articulated soft robots with application to model-free torque iterative learning control (Int J Robot Res, Aug 2020)
- Analytical modeling and design of generalized Pneu-Net soft actuators with three-dimensional deformations (Soft Robotics, Aug 2020)
- Surface actuation and sensing of a tensegrity structure using robotic skins (Soft Robotics, Sept 2020)
- Jamming skins that control system rigidity from the surface (Adv Funct Mater, Sept 2020)
- Untethered feel‐through haptics using 18‐µm thick dielectric elastomer actuators (Adv Funct Mater, Oct 2020)
- CTF-based soft touch actuator for playing electronic piano (Nat Commun, Oct 2020)
* Soft robot application:
- 3D printed patient-specific aortic root models with internal sensors for minimally invasive applications (Sci Adv, Aug 2020)
- Understanding the interaction between older adults and soft service robots: Insights from robotics and the technology acceptance model (AIS Trans Hum-Comput Interact, Sept 2020)
* Soft robot fabrication, embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change:
- 3D-printed programmable tensegrity for soft robotics (Sci Robot, Aug 2020)
- Biomorphic structural batteries for robotics (Sci Robot, Aug 2020)
- Integrating chemical fuels and artificial muscles for untethered microrobots (Sci Robot, Aug 2020)
- Asymmetric elastoplasticity of stacked graphene assembly actualizes programmable untethered soft robotics (Nat Commun, Aug 2020)
- Roboticizing fabric by integrating functional fibers (Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A., Aug 2020)
- Stimuli-responsive functional materials for soft robotics (J Mater Chem B, Aug 2020)
- Reprogrammable shape morphing of magnetic soft machines (Sci Adv, Sept 2020)
* Soft robot modeling, control, learning, state estimation:
- New development of the dynamic modeling and the inverse dynamic analysis for flexible robot (Int J Adv Robot Syst, Aug 2020)
- Robust tracking control of variable stiffness joint based on feedback linearization and disturbance observer with estimation error compensation (IEEE Access, Sept 2020)
Conference Articles
- Multi-material 3D printing of thermoplastic elastomers for development of soft robotic structures with integrated sensor elements (Int Conf on Additive Manufacturing in Products and Applications)
Popular Articles
- Podcast: Ergonomic tools for manufacturing (ASME, Aug 2020)
- Minuscule RoBeetle turns liquid methanol into muscle power (IEEE Spectrum, Aug 2020)
- A classic toy pops into usefulness (ASME, Sept 2020)
- Yale’s smart robotic fabric is as flexible as you need it to be (Engadget, Sept 2020)
- Autonomous robots could mine the deep seafloor (IEEE Spectrum, Sept 2020)
- Tubular robot maneuvers through the body (ASME, Oct 2020)
- Untethered squid robot could help study coral reefs (The Engineer, Oct 2020)
- Soft robotic glove boosts workers’ grip (ASME, Oct 2020)