Our recent collaborative work on magnetic kirigami robot is published in Advanced Science journal and featured as a frontispiece. Abstract: Limbless crawling on land requires breaking symmetry of the friction […]
Category: Research
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 in Nature Portfolio Engineering Community. […]
!brute_force – Soft Resilience
!brute_force is an umbrella title for an ongoing research platform. The work is set up as a grid where a human and a dog climb through a landscape of tiles, […]
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 snakes to engage selectively with […]
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 between living species in a […]
!Cartesian Shell
In 2020 the !brute_force installation served as a stage for Smrekar and her canine co-performers to climb on, while artificial intelligence algorithms analyzed their breathing, body temperature, and heartbeat. The […]