Univ. of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, June 16-17 2026 Contributors: Jacqueline Borgstedt, Marco Donnarumma, Louise Kirsch, Sarah McIntyre, Isabel Neto, Lea Laura Nørregaard, Mark Paterson, Evgenios Vlachos, Kassandra Wellendorf, Amy […]
Soft fluidic tactile sensors
Our work on “Tactile perception through fluid–solid interaction” is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to our PhD student Arman Goshtasbi and the team! Abstract: Soft tactile sensors elevate robotic touch […]
RoboSoft 2026
SDU Soft Robotics participated in the 9th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2026), held in Kanazawa, Japan 🇯🇵, from April 7–11, 2026, with multiple contributions. Saravana P. Murali […]
Soft Robot Aesthetics
A commentary co-authored by Jonas Jørgensen and collaborators is published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, arguing that aesthetics should be treated as a core design dimension, alongside functionality and safety, to […]
Soft Transition Workshop at RoboSoft 2026
About the workshop Soft robots have made impressive progress on land and underwater, yet transitions between these domains remain a major bottleneck. Many current systems are optimized for a single […]
Soft Talk by Simon Sponberg
On 12th of March 2026 at 13:30 pm, Simon Sponberg, Glen Robinson Professor in Complex Systems, Schools of Physics and Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech will give a Soft Talk seminar on “Supra-resonant […]
EPICUR Seed Funding
The EPICUR University Alliance has selected our SMILE consortium as one of five projects awarded under the 2025 Seed Funding, receiving € 150k. SMILE will connect four interdisciplinary researchers from […]
ERC Consolidator grant for Ahmad Rafsanjani
The European Research Council has awarded a €2 million ERC Consolidator Grant to Ahmad Rafsanjani, professor of soft robotics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), for his project “METABOA: […]