Contact

Co-Chairs

Matteo Cianchetti

Soft Robotics

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Pisa, Italy

E: matteo.cianchetti@santannapisa.it

Josie Hughes

Soft Robotics

EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland

E: josie.hughes@epfl.ch

Hugo Rodrigue

Soft Robotics

Sungkyunkwan University
Seoul, South Korea

E: rodrigue@skku.edu

Sheila Russo

Soft Robotics

Boston University
Boston (MA). USA

E: russos@bu.edu

Associate chair(s) — Newsletter

Jan Peters

Soft Robotics Associate Chair - Newsletter

Leibniz Universität
Hannover, Germany

E: peters@match.uni-hannover.de

S.M.Hadi Sadati

Soft Robotics Associate Chair - Newsletter

King’s College
London, UK

E: smh_sadati@kcl.ac.uk

Associate chair(s) — Podcast

Marwa Eldiwiny

Soft Robotics Associate Chair - Podcast

Vrije Universiteit
Brussels, Belgium

E: marwaeldiwiny1991@gmail.com

Student Representatives

• Maks Gepner, Edinburgh University
• Frank Juliá Wise, Boston University
• Niccolò Pagliarani, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
• Alexia Le Gall, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
• Nana Obayashi, EPFL

Advisory board

• Ryuma Niiyama, Meiji University
• Yigit Menguc, Oregon State University
• Fumiya Iida, University of Cambridge
• Cecilia Laschi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
• Akio Ishiguro, Tohoku University
• Barry A. Trimmer, Tufts University
• Carmel Majidi, Carnegie Mellon University
• Daniela Rus, MIT
• Dario Floreano, EPFL
• Hod Lipson, Columbia University
• Kyujin Cho, Seoul National University
• Maarja Kruusmaa, Tallinn University of Technology
• Robert Wood, Harvard University
• Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zürich
• Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London
• Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Yale University
• Mike Tolley, UC San Diego
• Yong Lae Park, Seoul National University
• Surya G. Nurzaman, Monash University
• S.M.Hadi Sadati, King’s College London

RoboSoft Steering Committee (April 2024 - April 2025)

• Barbara Mazollai (Chair), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
• Adam Stokes, University of Edinburgh
• Matteo Cianchetti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
• Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado, Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Raye Yeow, National University of Singapore
• Jamie Paik, EPFL
• Jovana Jovanova, TU Delft
• Michael T. Tolley, University of California, San Diego
• Nick Gravish, University of California, San Diego
• Tania Morimoto, University of California, San Diego
• Rebecca Kramer, Yale University
• Hugo Rodrigue, Sungkyunkwan University
• Josie Hughes, EPFL
• Sheila Russo, Boston University

Official Website

http://softrobotics.org

Founding date

2012

Member count

561