Highlighted News
* Registration for RoboSoft 2020 is now open. Early-bird Registration available through March 1, registration closes March 22.
* February issue of Soft Robotics is already online
* The most updated podcast episodes are available here.
New Videos
* MakeSense: Automated sensor design for proprioceptive soft robots (Jan 2020)
* Superpick polybagpicking system from soft robotics (Soft Robotics Inc., Jan 2020)
Published Journal
* Related view and review:
- A vision for future bioinspired and biohybrid robots (Sci. Robot, Jan 2020)
- Metal or muscle? The future of biologically inspired robots (Sci. Robot, Jan 2020)
* Soft arm, manipulation, grasping:
- Model-based dynamic feedback control of a planar soft robot: trajectory tracking and interaction with the environment (Int. J. Robot. Res., Dec 2020)
- On an improved state parametrization for soft robots with piecewise constant curvature and its use in model based control (IEEE RA-L, Jan 2020)
- A haptic continuum interface for the teleoperation of extensible continuum manipulators (IEEE RA-L, Jan 2020)
- TMTDyn: A Matlab package for modeling and control of hybrid rigid–continuum robots based on discretized lumped system and reduced order models (Int. J. Robot. Res., Jan 2020)
- Online disturbance estimation for improving kinematic accuracy in continuum manipulators (IEEE RA-L, Jan 2020)
- A soft gripper with programmable effective length, tactile and curvature sensory feedback (Smart. Mater. Struct., Jan 2020)
- Complex multiphase organohydrogels with programmable mechanics toward adaptive soft-matter machines (Sci. Adv., Jan 2020)
* Soft locomotion, compliant locomotion:
- Toward a gecko-inspired, climbing soft robot (Front. Neurorobotics, Dec 2019)
- An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators (Sci. Robot., Dec 2019)
- Confined spaces path following for cable-driven snake robots with prediction lookup and interpolation algorithms (Sci. China Technol. Sci., Dec 2019)
- A lightweight simulation model for soft robot’s locomotion and its application to trajectory optimization (IEEE RA-L, Jan 2020)
* Soft sensing, artificial skin, electronic skin:
- Towards FBG-based shape sensing for micro-scale and meso-scale continuum robots with large deflection (IEEE RA-L, Jan 2020)
- Future trends in instrumentation and measurement: Indirect sensing in soft robots using observers/filters (IEEE Instru. Meas. Mag., Feb 2020)
- An ambient-stable and stretchable ionic skin with multimodal sensation (Mater. Horiz., Feb 2020)
- Stiffness imaging with a continuum appendage: Real-time shape and tip force estimation from base load readings (IEEE RA-L, Feb 2020)
* Soft actuator, flexible actuator, compliant actuator:
- Autonomic perspiration in 3D-printed hydrogel actuators (Sci. Robot, Jan 2020)
- Electrically-driven soft fluidic actuators combining stretchable pumps with thin McKibben muscles (Front. Robot. AI., Jan 2020)
* Soft robot application:
- Design, modeling, and evaluation of fabric-based pneumatic actuators for soft wearable assistive gloves (Soft Robotics, Jan 2020)
- Improving the performance of industrial machines with variable stiffness springs (Mech. Based Des. Struc., Jan 2020)
* Embodied intelligence, morphological computation, morphological change, growing robots:
- Quasi-static modeling of a novel growing soft-continuum robot (Int. J. Robot. Res., Dec 2019)
- Bio-inspired active skins for surface morphing (Sci. Rep., Dec 2019)
- Retraction of soft growing robots without buckling (IEEE RA-L, Jan 2020)
- A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Jan 2020)
- Large-scale automated investigation of free-falling paper shapes via iterative physical experimentation (Nat. Mach. Intell., Jan 2020)
- Complex multiphase organohydrogels with programmable mechanics toward adaptive soft-matter machines (Sci. Adv., Jan 2020)
- Variable stiffness morphing limb for amphibious legged robots inspired by chelonian environmental adaptations (Bioinspir. Biomim., Feb 2020)
* Soft matter electronics, stretchable electronics:
- Lighting up soft robotics (Nat. Mater., Dec 2019)
- Reconfigurable and programmable origami dielectric elastomer actuators with 3D shape morphing and emissive architectures (NPG Asia Mater., Dec 2019)
Popular Articles
- Soft skin-like robots you can put in your pocket (Science Daily, Dec 2019)
- Smash this robot (IEEE Spectrum, Dec 2019)
- A research team builds robots from living cells (The Economist, Jan 2020)
- First ‘living robots’ designed on supercomputer (The Guardian, Jan 2020)
- Scientists create a robot made entirely of living cells (CBC.Ca, Jan 2020)
- Meet Xenobot, an eerie new kind of programmable organism (Wired.com, Jan 2020)
- Scientists assemble frog stem cells into first ‘living machines’ (Smithsonian Mag., Jan 2020)
- Soft robot fingers sweat to cool themselves (IEEE Spectrum, Jan 2020)
- High-speed chameleon tongue redefines soft robots (ASME.org, Jan 2020)
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