Announcements

• IROS 2026 Workshops:
  • Tensegrity Robotics: Toward Field-capable, Intelligent Systems (DL: 17.08.)
  • Miniature Multiterrain and Multimodal Locomotion: from Biology to Robotics (DL: 31.08.)
  • When Muscles Think: The Embodied Intelligence of Biological and Robotic Actuation 
  • Mechanically Intelligent Soft Robotics
  • The SOFT Frontier 4: Intelligent Interactions in Soft Robotics

Featured Videos and Demos

• Do Rigid-Body Simulators Dream of Soft Robots?

Featured Books

• Soft Material Robotic System: Recent Advances and Future Developments (Open Access Springer Nature, Jun-26)

Featured Articles

Views and Reviews

14 entries

• The Future of Soft Robotics (Springer, Jun-26)
• Switchable Strain-Limiting Structures in Soft Actuators: Principles, Mechanisms, and Applications (Springer, Jun-26)
• Soft Everting Robots for Medical Applications: A Review (IEEE T-BME, Jun-26)
• Sustainable Human–Robot Interaction with Soft Robotic Systems (ACM, Mar-26)
• Manufacturing, Sensing, and Applications of Data Gloves: A Review (IEEE Sensors, Jun-26)
• Enhancing the functionality of soft continuum robots for minimally invasive and endoluminal interventions: a review (BioMed Eng, Jun-26)
• Soft pneumatic actuators for wearable systems: a structural classification and integration-oriented evaluation (BioMed Eng, Jun-26)
• Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers (Adv Intel Sys, Apr-26)
• Design-for-Benchmarking in Soft Robotics: Navigating Component-System Dichotomy (Adv Intel Sys, Apr-26)
• Neuromorphic Electronics for Intelligence Everywhere: Emerging Devices, Flexible Platforms, and Scalable System Architectures (Adv Mater, Apr-26)
• 3D-Printed Metamaterial-Based Soft Sensors: Materials, Design, and Fabrications (SMALL, Jun-26) 
• Flexible Multi-Parameter Implantable Sensors: From Integrated Physiological Monitoring to Intelligent Therapeutic Systems (Adv Func Mater, May-26)
• Omni-Scale Biomimetic Robotics (Adv Mater Tech, May-26)
• Liquid Metal-Enabled Soft Bioelectronics for Human Health Monitoring (SMALL, May-26)

New Materials, Actuators & Stiffening Methods

39 entries

• Origami-Inspired Soft Actuator Utilizing a Low-Melting-Point Alloy for Multi-Modal Motion and Shape Locking (RoboSoft, Apr-26)
• Origami-Inspired 3-DoF Robotic Joint Design With Pneumatic Actuators (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• Development of a Bernoulli Suction-Type Non-Contact Manipulator Capable of Controlling Object Position and Orientation During Holding (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• Guidance of cellular nematic elastomers into shape-programmable living surfaces (Science, Apr-26) 
• Biaxially ductile supramolecular polymer networks (Science, Apr-26)
• Ultra-Soft and Stretchable Permanent Magnetic Elastomer Enables Wireless Vectorial Motion Monitoring Toward Neuromuscular Disorder Management (Adv Func Mater, Apr-26)
•  Magnetothermal-Triggered Response and Self-Healing of Recyclable and Reprocessable Nanocomposites for Actuation Systems (Adv Func Mater, Apr-26)
• A Soft Robotic Jellyfish with Decoupled Actuators for Agile 3D Locomotion (Adv Intel Sys, Apr-26)
• Tough, Flexible, Strong: Characterization of Soft-Soft Silicone Interfaces for Soft Robotics (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)
• Origami Actuator with Tunable Limiting Layer for Morphological Adaptive Soft Robots (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)
• Low-Heat and Near-Silent Pneumatic Source Driven by Integrated Endothermic-Exothermic Chemical Reactions for Soft Robots (SoRo Journal, Apr-26) 
• SIMBI: Soft Intelligent Module for Benthic Interactions (SoRo Journal, Apr-26) 
• Cable Pneumatic Robot: Fabrication and Simulation (SoRo Journal, Apr-26) 
• Nocturnal Eye-Inspired Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change Soft Actuator with Laser-Induced Graphene: Enhanced Environmental Light Harvesting and Photothermal Conversion (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)  
• Multimodal Soft Surgical Robots Enabled by Eco-Degradable, Sterilizable Polymers and Transient Electronics (Adv Func Mater, Jun-26) 
• High Center-of-Mass, Multi-Legged Soft Robots Powered by Geometrically Encoded Liquid Crystal Elastomer Arc Appendages (Adv Mater, Jun-26)
• BiPneu: Design and Control of a Bipolar-Pressure Pneumatic System for Soft Robots (IEEE T-Mech, Jun-26)
• Human-Inspired Finger Design With Pressure-Based Variable Stiffness Spherical Joints (IEEE T-Mech, Jun-26)
• Cardan-Worm Bimodal Actuator for Underactuated Walking and Running With Soft Hip Exoskeleton (IEEE T-Mech, Jun-26) 
• A Novel Soft Hydrogel Actuator With Rapid and Bidirectional Bending Based on pH and Temperature Responses (Polymer, Jun-26)
• Ionic Wind Cooling Enables High-Frequency Shape Memory Alloy Actuators for Origami-Inspired Soft Robotics (SMALL, Jun-26) 
• Highly Programmable Liquid Crystalline Polyurethane/MXene Hybrids for Large-Strain, High-Work-Capacity Artificial Muscles (SMALL, Jun-26)  
• A Fast Bipedal Biohybrid Crawler Driven by Single Muscle Swinging (SoRo Journal, Jun-26) 
• A Soft Magnetic Jamming Method Enabling Variable Stiffness and Active Steering for Robotic Catheter (SoRo Journal, Jun-26) 
• Thermally Tunable Deformation Wave on a Bistable Lattice to Enhance Soft-Bodied Climbing Robots (SoRo Journal, Jun-26) 
• Flexible Morphing Aerial Robot with Inflatable Structure for Perching-Based Human-Robot Interaction (SoRo Journal, Jun-26) 
• Two-Dimensionalizing and Light Programming of Soft Actuators Enable Adaptive Robots (Adv Func Mater, May-26)
• Dual-Programmable Architected Magnetic Soft Materials: Tuning Mechano-Electric Responses by Inverse Design (Adv Func Mater, May-26) 
• Controllable Passive Suction Cups With Mechanical Programmability for Soft Robotics (Adv Func Mater, May-26) 
• Dual-Mode Magnetic Elastomer for On-Demand Motion and Degradation (Adv Func Mater, May-26)  
• Coating Artificial Spider Silk Fiber with Magnetic FeCo: An Effective Strategy for Creating a Flexible Magneto-Responsive Material (Adv Func Mater, May-26) 
• Field-Programable Dynamics in a Soft Magnetic Actuator Enabling True Random Number Generation and Reservoir Computing (Adv Intel Sys, May-26)
• Programmable Soft Actuators Enabled by Wavelength-Selective Liquid-Gas Phase Transition (Adv Mater Tech, May-26)
• A Multimodal Magnetically Driven Soft Robot With Integrated Actuation-Sensing Based on Photothermal Reprogramming Technology (Adv Sci, May-26)
• Origami-Mediated Low-Voltage Electret Soft Robotic Actuators for Human-Machine Haptic Interfaces (Adv Sci, May-26)
• Quantifying Structure-Property Relationships in Ferroelectric Polymers Toward High-Performance Soft Robots (Adv Sci, May-26)  
• Electrohydraulic Folding Ring Actuators for Radial Contraction (Adv Sci, May-26)
• Enhancing Durability and Payload Capacity of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots Using Multimaterial Soft-Rigid Hybrid Structure (IEEE T-Mech, May-26) 
• Rollable-based layer jamming device with variable stiffness for soft wearable applications (IJRR, May-26)

Sensing, Flexible Electronic & Skins

51 entries

• MyoDEA: A Self-Sensing Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Real-Time Muscle Stiffness Monitoring (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• External Photoreflective Tactile Sensing Based on Surface Deformation Measurement (IEEE Sensors, Jun-26) 
• Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensors With Microstructured-Porous Dielectric Layers for Pressure, Shear, and Proximity Detection (IEEE Sensors, Jun-26) 
• Accurate Shape Sensing for Magnetic Soft Continuum Robots Using Sparse FBG Arrays (IEEE Sensors, Apr-26) 
• A Phase-Coherent Impedance-Based Soft Sensor for Arc Electrical Integrity (IEEE Sensors, Apr-26) 
• A Novel Capacitive Array Sensor for Real-Time Force Measurements in Total Knee Arthroplasty (IEEE Sensors, Apr-26) 
• Influences of Bending Degree on Noncontact Gap and Pressure Measurements by Using Eddyingized Conductive Polymer Composite (IEEE Sensors, Jun-26)
• Smart Illuminated Touch: Integrated AI for Improved Optical Tomography-Based Soft Sensors (IEEE Sensors, May-26)
• Three-Dimensional Flexible Tactile Sensor Arrays for Perceptual Grasping: Toward Enhanced Perceptual Robotics (IEEE Sensors, May-26)
• An FBG-Based Soft Wearable Device for Force Monitoring During Palpation (IEEE Sensors, Apr-26) 
• Strain-programmable liquid metal fibers for anti-interference electronic textiles (Nature, Apr-26)
• Thin-Film Thermal Sensors on Chitosan Substrates for Sustainable Transient Electronics (Adv Elec Mater, Apr-26)
• Ultratough, Stretchable Silk Protein Fibrous Membranes for Robust and Permeable Epidermal Bioelectronic Sensors (Adv Func Mater, Apr-26) 
• Laser-Induced Graphene Bioelectronics for Flexible Multimodal Physiological-Electrophysiological Monitoring (Adv Func Mater, Apr-26)
• Dual-Anchored Interfacial Adhesion-Enhanced Strain-Insensitive Hydrogels Electronic Skin for Consciousness-Driven Brain-Computer Interface (Adv Func Mater, Apr-26) 
• A Self-Healing Magnetoelectric Sensor with Pain Sensing for Underwater Soft Electronics (Adv Mater, Apr-26)
• Galinstan Liquid Metal/Polyurethane Composite as a Multifunctional Stretchable Electrode and Piezoresistive Strain Sensor With Minimal Drift (Adv Mater Tech, Apr-26)
• Fatigue-Resistant Kirigami Ionic Skins for High-Fidelity Strain Sensing and Rehabilitation Motion Recognition (Adv Mater Tech, Apr-26)
• Printable Conductive Hydrogels for Electrochemical Biosensing and Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces (Adv Sci, Apr-26)
• Conjugated Polymers Engineered for Flexible/Stretchable Electronics (Polymer, Apr-26) 
• A Crack-Based One-Dimensional Microspheres Array Enables Thermal-Mechanical Decoupled Dual-Functional Sensing (Adv Sci, Apr-26) 
• Flexible, large-area, recyclable, decoupled dual sensing of temperature and pressure enabled by mechanically-electrically hybrid networks (Nature, Apr-26) 
• High-strength liquid metal composite-hydrogel interfaces enable robust stretchable electronics (Nature, Apr-26) 
• Intrinsically stretchable complementary circuits based on direct photo-patternable polymer semiconductors (Nature, Apr-26)
• Unveiling the immoral ramp feature of dissolved oxygen signals with dynamical systems analysis: perspectives for robust soft-sensor development (Nature, Apr-26)
• Heterogeneous Knitted Fabrics for 3D Flexible Capacitive Sensors With Enhanced Sensitivity and Durability (Adv Elec Mater, Jun-26) 
• Bio-Inspired Soft Robots for Confined Spaces: Double-Mode Motion Regulation Based on Magnetic Self-Locking and Contact Sensing (Adv Func Mater, Jun-26) 
• A Photoswitchable Hydrogel Engineered by a UV-Triggered Fe3+/Fe2+Valence Cycle for Optically Modulatable Triboelectric Sensing (Adv Func Mater, Jun-26) 
• A Two-Stage Characterization Pipeline and Open-Source Framework for Reproducible Tactile Sensing (Adv Intel Sys, Jun-26) 
• Ordered-Disorder Transition Induced Stretchable Collagen Ionic Gels Toward Flexible Sensors (Adv Mater, Jun-26) 
• Ultratough, Filler-Free Gallic Acid-Reinforced PVA/Casein Supramolecular Hydrogel with Intrinsic Protonic Conductivity for Wearable Strain and Motion Sensing (Adv Mater Tech, Jun-26)
• Synergistic Integration of Artificial Merkel Disc and Meissner Corpuscle via Dermal Papillary Structures for Mechanically Filtered Multimodal Tactile Sensing (Adv Sci, Jun-26) 
• PneuGelSight: Soft robotic vision-based proprioception and tactile sensing (IJRR, Jun-26)
• Deep learning-enabled versatile shape perception for soft robots via single-ended multimode fiber (Science, Jun-26) 
• Biofunctionalized polymer semiconductors toward soft and stretchable transistor-based biosensors (Science, Jun-26) 
• Shape and Tactile Perceptions of Soft Fingers via Distributed Curvature Sensing for Intelligent Grippers (SoRo Journal, Jun-26) 
• A Soft, Insect-Inspired, Distributed Tactile Sensor Enables Effective Touch Perception (SoRo Journal, Jun-26) 
• Towards Real-Time Monitoring of Soft Robotic Systems in Endoscopic Application With Ultra-Flexible Organic Transistor-Based Strain Sensors (Adv Elec Mater, May-26) 
• Surface Energy Modulated Self-Assembly of Percolative Gallium Nanodroplet Films for Stretchable Electronics (Adv Elec Mater, May-26) 
• Gallium-Based Liquid Metal Composites for Flexible Sensors: Design Strategies, Sensing Functions, and Application (Adv Elec Mater, May-26)
• Multimodal Perception and Machine Learning-Empowered Human Machine Interfaces With Double-Network Hydrogel Fibers (Adv Func Mater, May-26)
• Solid Particle-Liquid Metal Mixtures for Robust High-Current Interconnects in Stretchable Electronics and Soft Robotics (Adv Mater Tech, May-26)
• Morphology-Driven Electromechanical Performance of Graphene-Based Electrofluids for Emerging Soft Electronic Systems (Adv Mater Tech, May-26) 
• Buckling-Driven Linearity in Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensors Based on a Three-Dimensional Dual-Pore Polyurethane Structure (Adv Mater Tech, May-26) 
• Upcycling Compact Discs Into Ultra-Stable, Flexible, and Stretchable Nanoporous Gold Electrodes for Enhanced Biosensing Performance (Adv Mater Tech, May-26)
• A Soft Mechanoluminescent Skin for High-Resolution Optical Tactile Sensing in Human-Machine Interaction (Adv Sci, May-26)
• A Supramolecular Reversible and Anisotropic Conductive Adhesive for Flexible Electronics (Adv Sci, May-26) 
• Soft Robotic Proprioceptive Posture and Positioning Enhancement via Distributed Multifield Magnetic Inductive Sensing (IEEE T-Mech, May-26)
• Stretchable and Bendable Design of Pressure Sensor for Lower-Limb Motion Monitoring (IEEE T-Mech, May-26)
• A large-scale stretchable neuromorphic circuit for on-body edge computing (Nature, May-26)
• Ultrastable Soft Capacitive Tactile Sensor with Impedance-Modulated Signal (SoRo Journal, May-26)

Fabrication Techniques & Hardware Toolkits

8 entries

• Pellet Printing for Soft Robotic Devices (Adv Science, Mar-26)
• An Open-Source, Reproducible Tensegrity Robot That Can Navigate Among Obstacles (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• Stiffness Map Generation for Soft Materials Using Axis-Aligning Non-Contact Measuring Device (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• Bridging Performance and Fate: A Framework for Sustainable, Composite-Based Flexible Electronic Systems (Adv Elec Mater, Jun-26)
• Hierarchical laser-programmed soft actuators for designing bionic robots with freeform morphing shapes (Science, Jun-26)
• Transfer Printing and Reconfiguration of Soft Electronics Using Digital Microfluidics and Laser Machining (Adv Func Mater, May-26) 
• Texoskeletons: Developing the Fundamental Technologies for Creating Intelligent Soft Robotic Clothing With Integrated 1D Sensors and Actuators (Adv Func Mater, May-26)
• One-Shot Multimaterial 3D Printing of a Flexible Spine for a Robotic Fish Prototype (Adv Intel Sys, May-26)

Locomotion, Swimming & Flying

10 entries

• Eel-Inspired Electrohydraulic Soft Swimmer With Programmable Undulatory Gaits (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• A Worm-Inspired Origami Robot with Multimodal Locomotion for Adaptive Mobility in Complex Pipeline Environments (Adv Sci, Apr-26)
• Numerical investigation of wake interaction and bio-inspired propulsive performance of tandem flapping foils for soft-robotic underwater locomotion (Nature, Apr-26)
• Soft Robotic Snake Locomotion on Curved Surfaces (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)
• A Teleost-Inspired Multimodal Locomotion Soft Robot with High Bandwidth Artificial Muscles (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)
• Biologically Constrained Insect Models Enable Realistic Simulations and Improve Biomechanical Predictions of Locomotion (SoRo Journal, Apr-26) 
• Pre-Curved Everting Robots With Embedded Steering Intelligence Fabricated by CO2 Laser Welding (Adv Intel Sys, Jun-26)
• Vibration of Soft, Twisted Beams for Underactuated Quadrupedal Locomotion (IEEE T-Mech, Jun-26)  
• Research on the Design of Variable Stiffness Adhesive Feet and Cooperative Crawling Mechanism for Soft Bionic Gecko-Inspired Wall-Climbing Robots (SoRo Journal, Jun-26)
• Rod-Pipe-Climbing Soft Robot With Transitioning Locomotion (IEEE T-Mech, May-26)

Manipulation & Grasping 

12 entries

• Topology-Optimized, Dual-Phase Gripper With Force Estimation for Underwater Operation (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• A Continuum Robot Based on a Conical Helical Configuration for Adaptive Grasping of Irregular Objects (IEEE RA-L, May-26) 
• Bioinspired Morphology-Decoupled Soft Gripper with Enhanced Bidirectional Grasping Capability (Adv Sci, Apr-26)
• An integrated tomato harvesting framework using a hybrid soft-rigid gripper with semantic segmentation and keypoint detection (Nature, Apr-26) 
• Co-Programming Shape Morphing and Interaction Forces of Soft Grippers for Compliant Grasping (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)
• Feline Tongue-Inspired Filiform Microstructure Improving Grasp Performance of Soft Robotic Hands (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)
• Everything-Grasping Gripper: A Universal Gripper with Synergistic Suction-Grasping Capabilities for Cross-Scale and Cross-State Manipulation (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)  
• Stacked Variable Structure Gripper Based on Dielectric Elastomer Minimum Energy Structures (Adv Mater Tech, Jun-26)
• Toward a Soft Robotic Gripper Integrating High Force Grasping and Dexterous Manipulation: The SOFRo Gripper (IEEE RA-M, Jun-26)
• Contact-Triggered Sequential Grasping With an HSA-Driven Underactuated Gripper for Delicate Produce (IEEE T-Mech, Jun-26)
• Bioinspired Swallowing Soft Gripper with Toroidal Optical Waveguides for Multimodal Interactive Perception (SoRo Journal, May-26)
• Three-Finger Borescope-Mounted IPMC Gripper (SoRo Journal, May-26) 

Biomimicry & Bioinspiration

7 entries

• Magnetically-driven deployable structure inspired by worms (IOP, May-26)
• Vibration-Driven Stimulus-Responsive and Omnidirectional Crawling Robot with the Bionic Bristle (Adv Eng Mater, Apr-26)
• 3D-Printed Shark-Inspired Soft-Hard Hybrid Underwater Robot With Buoyancy Control and Onboard Vision (Adv Intel Sys, Apr-26) 
• Multimodal Quad-Finger Soft Robotic Hand With Dual-Chamber Origami Actuator for Large-Workspace Manipulation (Adv Intel Sys, Apr-26)
• Octopus-Inspired Embodied Tactile Intelligence: A Universally Calibrated Miniature Vision-Based Suction Cup (IEEE T-Mech, Jun-26) 
• Armadillo-inspired active morphing skeletons for soft machines (Science, May-26)
• Plant-Inspired Elastic-Hydraulic Tactile Sensing Enables Quantitative Stiffness Estimation in Soft Robots (SoRo Journal, May-26)

Soft Robot Applications

17 entries

• ASDDSA Active Suction Device for Deep Sea Application (Springer, Jun-26)
• Electronics-free soft robotic minitablet for on-demand gastric molecular sensing and diagnostics in vivo (Science, May-26)
• Light-Actuated Fiber-Climbing Inchworm Robot Toward Endoluminal Navigation (Adv Func Mater, Apr-26)
• Jellyfish-Inspired Ultrafast and Versatile Magnetic Soft Robots for Biomedical Applications (Cyborg, Apr-26)
• Bio-Inspired Flower Robot for Emotional Human-Robot Interaction (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• Design and Modeling of Motorized Tapping Mechanism for Effective Needle Penetration (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)  
• Design of a Passive Finger-Tip Changer for Modular Robotic Manipulation (IEEE RA-L, Apr-26)
• Shared expectations of soft haptic feedback through imagined high-fives with robots and non-human animals at a science festival (Nature, Apr-26)
•  Design of a soft robotic endoscope with enhanced bending and AI-based prediction (Nature, Apr-26) 
• Tapered Magnetic Soft Continuum Catheters with Integrated Microchannels for Cerebral Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy Delivery (SoRo Journal, Apr-26)
• Inchiscope: A Modular Triple-Balloon Soft Robotic Endoscope for Navigating the Small Bowel (IEEE T-Mech, Jun-26) 
• A dexterous soft hand exoskeleton restores intentional grasping in individuals with severe hand impairment (Nature, Jun-26)
• Expressing Emotion Through Heartbeat: A Soft Robotic Heart Integrated With a Soft Sensor for Arts in Robotics (IEEE RA-M, May-26) 
• Literary Emotions in Motion: A Soft Robotics Installation for Tactile Storytelling (IEEE RA-M, May-26) 
• Peripheral control enabled by distributed sensing in an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm for autonomous underwater grasping (Nature, May-26)
• Electronics-free soft robotic minitablet for on-demand gastric molecular sensing and diagnostics in vivo (Science, May-26)
• Design, Modeling, and Validation of a Pneumatically Actuated Distal Segment for Endoscopy (SoRo Journal, May-26) 

Theory: Learning, Modeling, & Control 

Embodied Intelligence & Morphological Computation

0 entries

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