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: […]
Inflatable kirigami crawlers
Our work on “inflatable kirigami crawlers” has been accepted for publication in Advanced Robotics Research and featured on the Front Cover! Congratulations to Burcu, Aida, & Bahman! Abstract: Kirigami offers […]
Soft Talk by Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
On 24th of October 2025 at 11:00 am, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, John J. Lee Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University will give a Soft Talk seminar on “Robots that […]
Workshop: “Touch and Social Robotics Theory – Depiction, Sociomorphing, and Haptic Interaction”
Date: Aug. 20 2025 Venue: OD TEK Seminar room (Ø7-610-1), University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark. Speakers: Kerstin Fischer & Johanna Seibt Touch is currently a frontier topic in […]