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Behavioral diversity seen in biological systems is, at the most basic level, driven by interactions between physical materials and their environment. In this context we are interested in falling paper systems, specifically the V-shaped falling paper (VSFP) ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have broad applications including disaster response, transportation, photography, and mapping. A significant bottleneck in the development of UAVs is the limited availability of automatic tools for task-specific co-design of ...

Soft robotics requires effective tools to educate the next generation of engineers and researchers. Stemming from a lack of universally accepted principles for education and with high barriers to entry in terms of fabrication and hardware, education to dat ...

The fabrication and control of robot hands with biologically inspired structure remains challenging due to its cost and complexity. In this paper we explore how widely available FDM printers can be used to fabricate complex hand structures by leveraging co ...

In the quest to develop large-area soft sensors, we can look to nature for many examples. Spiderwebs show many fascinating properties that we can seek to understand and replicate in order to develop large-area, soft, and deformable sensing structures. Spid ...

Due to its structural flexibility and compliance in motion, the soft manipulator shows significant potential and application prospects in robot-human and environment interaction fields. However, its theoretically infinite degrees of freedom in deformation ...

Quadrupedal animals show remarkable capabilities in traversing diverse terrains and display a range of behaviours and gait patterns. Achieving similar performance by exploiting the natural dynamics of the system is a key goal for robotics researchers. Here ...

The different receptors in human skin show not only diversity in the stimuli to which they respond, but also variable sensitivity and directionality. This is often determined by their location or morphology, and can play an important role in filtering or a ...

Soft robotic grippers are intrinsically delicate while grasping objects, and can rely on mechanical deformation to adapt to different shapes without explicit control. These characteristics are particularly appealing for agriculture, where items of produce ...

Agricultural tasks and environments range from harsh field conditions with semi-structured produce or animals, through to post-processing tasks in food-processing environments. From farm to fork, the development and application of soft robotics offers a pl ...

Creativity and style in music playing originates from constraints and imperfect interactions between instruments and players. Digital and robotic systems have so far been unable to capture this naturalistic playing. Whether as an additional tool for musici ...

The extraction of tactile information from an environment depends on the action, sensor design, and the environment itself. This makes identifying an optimal action for a given task, i.e. classification, challenging and typically requires extensive data-ri ...

A shift toward a democratized, bimodal model of research would allow soft robotics to realize its full potential. ...

The development of food products that are safe whilst also nutritious and sustainable is a key challenge for the food industry. However, evaluating the safety of food, and in particular swallowing safety, is a fundamental challenge to ensure safety, percep ...

Laboratory automation requires reliable and precise handling of microplates, but existing robotic systems often struggle to achieve this, particularly when navigating around the dynamic and variable nature of laboratory environments. This work introduces a ...

Soft continuum manipulators are celebrated for their versatility and physical robustness to external forces and perturbations. However, this feature comes at a cost. The many degrees of freedom and compliance pose challenges for accurate pose reconstructio ...

Interest in bioinspired peristaltic pumps has grown in popularity among the scientific community in the last decade thanks to their extreme flexibility and their intrinsic compliance. In this paper, we propose a soft peristaltic pump exploiting ballooning. ...

Regulating contact forces is crucial for robotic manipulation, but achieving stiffness variation in multi-fingered hands is challenging due to design complexity. This work presents Mod-VSA, a modular variable stiffness actuator for multi-fingered tendon-dr ...

Fingerprints primarily enhance grasping by modulating friction, as the surface pattern affects the friction needed for effective grasping and manipulation. A versatile gripper was developed with a more realistic distal phalange inspired by the human index ...

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Morphological Sensitivity and Falling Behavior of Paper V-Shapes

Automatic Co-Design of Aerial Robots Using a Graph Grammar

Accessible Soft Robotics Education with Re-configurable Balloon Robots

Scalable Fabrication and Actuation of a Human Inspired Hand Through 3D Printed Flexures and Combinatorial Actuation

Exploration of the Design of Spiderweb-Inspired Structures for Vibration-Driven Sensing

Polynomial Curvature Model for IMU-Based Proprioception in Soft Robotic Manipulators Under External Forces

Synergy-based robotic quadruped leveraging passivity for natural intelligence and behavioural diversity

Morphological and Material Programability of a Hall-Effect Based Soft Tactile Sensors

Field-evaluated Closed Structure Soft Gripper Enhances the Shelf Life of Harvested Blackberries

Soft robotics for farm to fork: applications in agriculture & farming

Exploiting passive behaviours for diverse musical playing using the parametric hand

Rapid Action Evaluation and Optimization Through Mutual Information Using a Multi-Modal Soft Tactile Sensor

A democratized bimodal model of research for soft robotics: Integrating slow and fast science

Bio-Inspired Robotic Swallowing Simulator

How can LLMs transform the robotic design process?

Reliable and robust robotic handling of microplates via computer vision and touch feedback

IMU Based Pose Reconstruction and Closed-loop Control for Soft Robotic Arms

Bioinspired Soft Bendable Peristaltic Pump Exploiting Ballooning for High Volume Throughput

Mod-VSA: A Modular Variable Stiffness Actuator for Multi-fingered Robotic Hands

Soft Pneumatic Gripper With Interchangeable Fingertips by Using Reversible Polymers: The GraspBerry, a Raspberry Picking Case Study