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 […]
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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 […]
PhD Defense: Burcu Seyidoğlu
Congratulations to Dr. Burcu Seyidoğlu for successfully defending her PhD thesis titled “Snake-Inspired Soft Robots for Rectilinear Locomotion” on Friday, June 13, 2025. The defense took place in Ellehammer seminar […]
Multimodal Limbless Crawling
Jonathan’s paper “Multimodal Limbless Crawling Soft Robot with a Kirigami Skin” is accepted for publications in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems. Congratulations Jonathan and the whole team! Abstract: Limbless […]
Insect Bioinspired Technologies Workshop
Ahmad delivered an invited talk on “Limbless Crawling Soft Robots” at the 4th International Workshop on Insect-Inspired Technologies, held in Wageningen, Netherlands, on May 19–20, 2025. Jonathan also presented a […]