Activities
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (Robosoft)
The 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dates TBD.
- Website: https://softroboticsconference.org/
Conference activities
The following workshops and competitions are endorsed or sponsored by the TC on Soft Robotics in upcoming conferences:
- ICRA 2024: Continuum and Soft robotics for medical applications with rising stars on the stage
- ICRA 2024: (Re)designing the tree of robotic life: a game of alternative timelines
- ICRA 2024: Impulsive motion in soft robotic and microrobotic systems
- ICRA 2024: Advancing Sustainable Food Systems through Agri-Robotics Innovations
- ICRA 2024: Soft Continuum Manipulators: Bottlenecks and Applications
- ICRA 2024: Sustainable Soft Robots: Working with the Environment
- ICRA 2024: Cognition across species: from nature to robotic application
The following workshops and competitions were endorsed or sponsored by the TC on Soft Robotics in previous conferences:
- IROS 2023: Workshop on Agricultural Robotics for a Sustainable Future
- IROS 2023: Tensegrity Robotics Workshop
- IROS 2023: Functional Fashion
- IROS 2023: Soft Robotics Balloon Robots
Awards (2024)
- IEEE RoboSoft Best Paper Awards
- Winner:
- Maximilian Stölzle, Sonal Santosh Baberwal, Daniela Rus, Shirley Coyle, Cosimo Della Santina. Guiding Soft Robots with Motor-Imagery Brain Signals and Impedance Control.
- Runner up:
- Joshua Pinskier, James Brett, David Howard. Towards Bespoke Soft Grippers through Voxel-Scale Metamaterial Topology Optimisation.
- Winner:
- IEEE RoboSoft Best Poster Awards
- Winner:
- Baekgyeom Kim, Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Seungyong Han, Daeshik Kang, Saad Bhamla, Je-Sung Koh. Passive Aerial Righting and Safe Landing of a Small Bio-inspired Jumping Robot.
- Runner up:
- Cathleen Arase, Qifan Yu, Kaitlyn Becker. Bonding Rigid and Soft Materials Using Flocking.
- William Foster-Hall, David J. Harvey, Rini Akmeliawati. Soft Robotics for Space Applications: Towards a Family of Locomotion Platforms.
- Winner:
- IEEE RoboSoft Excellence in Manufacturing Reproducibility
- Winner:
- Savita Vitthalrao Kendre, Lehong Wang, Ethan Wilke, Nicholas Pacheco, Loris Fichera, Markus Nemitz. FDM Printing: a Fabrication Method for Fluidic Soft Circuits.
- Runner up:
- Baekgyeom Kim, Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Seungyong Han, Daeshik Kang, Saad Bhamla, Je-Sung Koh. Passive Aerial Righting and Safe Landing of Small Scale Bio-inspired Jumping Robot.
- Ryo Kanno, Huy Nguyen Pham, Joshua Pinskier, David Howard, Sukho Song, Mirko Kovac. Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaptation.
- Winner:
- IEEE RoboSoft Competition Winners
- Design: WADDLEGRAB, Bristol Soft Robotics Lab
- Locomotion: SOFTech, Southern University of Science and Technology, Lu Jinxuan, Xie Lingyim Qu Zeyang, Hu Xinshu, Hongqiang Wang
- Manipulation: KIWIBOTIC, Leibniz University Hannover, Ditzia Susana Garcia Morales, Lisa Katharina Kesting, Lucia Natalia Flores Sarco, Anna Elisa Leal, Miriam Walter
- Autonomy: RobUST, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- IEEE RoboSoft Demo Awards
- 1st place: Dallin L Cordon, Shaden Moss, Marc Killpack, John Salmon. Human Robot Co-Manipulation with Pneumatic Robotic Manipulators.
- 2nd place: Cosima du Pasquier, Lavender Tessmer, Ian Scholl, Liana Tilton, Tian Chen, Skylar Tibbits, Allison Okamura. Haptic Knits for Distributed Softness Wearable Haptics.
- 3rd place: Pragna Mannam, Xingyu Liu, Ding Zhao, Jean Oh, Nancy S Pollard. Design and Control Co-Optimization for Automated Design Iteration of Dexterous Anthropomorphic Soft Robotic Hands.
- IEEE/ SICE SII2024 Best Soft Robotic Paper Award
- Hiroyuki Nabae. Fiber Jamming Mechanism for Back-Stretchable McKibben Muscles.