Our team will be at the 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023) in Singapore with three contributed papers. “Earthworm-inspired multimodal soft actuators” […]
Earthworm-like modular soft robot
Saravana published a paper on a modular earthworm-inspired soft robot in Scientific Reports. Congratulations, Saravana! He also wrote about this work in a blog post […]
!brute_force – Soft Resilience
!brute_force is an umbrella title for an ongoing research platform interrogating the premise that humans and nonhumans are no longer embedded in a dualist frame, […]
Introduction to Soft Robotics 2022
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to soft robotics and reviews recent works and research in this field. Soft robots are an emerging class of […]
Giving life to robotic skins
A Preview is published by Ahmad Rafsanjani and colleagues from ETH Zurich on the research article “Living skin on a robot” by Takeuchi and coworkers […]
Turning materials into robots
A Perspective by Ahmad Rafsanjani on the research article “Design and printing of proprioceptive three-dimensional architected robotic metamaterials” by Rayne Zheng and coworkers published in […]
Towards a Soft Science of Soft Robots
The position paper presents an argument that aesthetic theory and practice are pertinent to the rapidly expanding field of soft robotics. Soft robotics as an […]
Curvilinear Kirigami
Abstract: The locomotion of soft snake robots is dependent on frictional interactions with the environment. Frictional anisotropy is a morphological characteristic of snakeskin that allows […]
Color changing soft composites
Our article “Stretchable Soft Composites with Strain-Induced Architectured Color” is published in Advanced Materials, and featured as a frontispiece. Abstract: Colors enable interaction and communication […]