Announcements

Upcoming RoboSoft Workshops

-  Ocean Soft Robots: Exploration and Data Challenges

-  Soft Robots for Environmental Intelligence

-  Additive Manufacturing for Soft Robotics: Challenges and Opportunities

-  When Soft Robots get Small: Current Trends and New Perspectives in the Fabrication, Design and Application of Small-Scale Soft Robots

-  Workshop on Functional Adaptiveness in Soft Sensors and Sensing Technology

-  Towards Sustainable Solutions: The Design, Application, and Future of Soft Robotics in Health Care and Rehabilitation Applications

-  Soft and Social Robotics for Improved Human Centred Applications

-  Bi- and Multi-Stability in Soft Robots

-  Bio-Inspired Soft Aerial Robotics

-  Mechanical and Fluidic Control of Untethered Soft Robots

-  Reduced-Order Modelling for Soft Robots

Upcoming ICRA Workshops

-  Soft Growing Robots: From Search-and-Rescue to Intraluminal Interventions

-  Origami-based structures for designing soft robots with new capabilities

-  Soft Robotics: Fusing function with structure

-  Towards an accessible soft robotics toolbox and validation test rig

Upcoming events

-  Embodied Intelligence (EI) International Conference

-  CLAWAR 2023: the 26th issue of the International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines

-  IDETC-CIE 2023: International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & 

-  Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

-  Falling paper: Join the CREATE Lab’s citizen science experiment (teaser)

-  Mastering Mobile Manipulators: Learn how to create ROS applications for autonomous mobile manipulators

-  Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium 2023: Workshop on Untethered Soft Robotics

-  May 15, DesignLab, University of Twente

-  International Symposium on Smart Materials

Special issues

-  Soft Actuators and Robotics (MDPI Actuators)

-  Advances in Soft Aerial Robotics (MDPI Robotics)

Featured Videos

-  Electrochemical Bubble Actuator

-  Tentacle robot can gently grasp fragile objects

-  A butterfly-stroke-like soft robotic swimmer that is fast and efficient

-  Frictional anisotropic locomotion and adaptive neural control for a soft crawling robot

-  Hyperbaric Vacuum-based Artificial Muscles for High-performance Actuation

-  Self-Propelled Soft Everting Toroidal Robot for Navigation and Climbing in Confined Spaces

-  6N-DoF Pose Tracking for Tensegrity Robots

Featured Reviews and News Articles

Featured News Articles

-  Robot Aims to Help Children with Cerebral Palsy (ASME, Nov 2022)

-  If It Only Had a Brain (ASME, Nov 2022)

Featured Review Papers

-  Wearable Robotics for Impaired Upper-Limb Assistance and Rehabilitation: State of the Art and Future Perspectives (IEEE Access, Oct 2022)

-  Dielectric elastomer actuators as artificial muscles for wearable robots (Sage, Nov 2022)

-  Opportunities and challenges in the development of exoskeletons for locomotor assistance (Nature, Dec 2022)

Announcements