soft-robotics

"There has been a great deal of growth in the fields of soft robotics and flexible electronics, but those devices are often also fragile."

Squishy Robotics, UC Berkeley’s BEST (Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities) Lab, and a NASA Ames co-author were on the cover of the June 2024 issue of Soft Robotics journal. The referenced paper was co-authored by Dr. Kyunam Kim, as lead author, with ME Professor Emeritus Alice M. Agogino and Dr. Adrian K. Agogino, a NASA Ames… The post ME Professor and Ph.D. Student’s Research Featured in Soft R…

Berkeley engineers have developed magnetically controlled soft actuators that mimic the “bone-in-flesh” structure of human limbs. Ultrafast and highly precise in their movements, these bioinspired actuators are easily made with low-cost, off-the-shelf components — qualities that may lead to their expanded use in soft robotics systems. In a study published in the journal Advanced Functional Materi…

Guest Editors Anand Mishra (Cornell University, USA), Zhihong Nie (Fudan University, China), Jamie Paik (EPFL, Switzerland) and Rob Shepherd (Cornell University, USA) would like to extend an invitation to all researchers working on the forefront of soft robotics, to contribute an article of their work to an exciting upcoming themed collection of Soft Matter, dedicated […]

Soft robots — which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels — have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics. In the first issue of that journal, out this month, MIT researchers report the first self-contained autonomous soft robot […]