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Interactive robotics is increasingly used to investigate animal behaviour, including communication, mating and collective dynamics. An essential component for such systems is sensing the animals and the relevant aspects of the habitat to enable coherent cl ...

IEEE2025

Multisensory feedback makes swimming circuits robust against spinal transection and enables terrestrial crawling in elongate fish

Auke Ijspeert, Laura Isabel Paez Coy, Astha Gupta, Qiyuan Fu

Vertebrate locomotion is due to the interplay of neural oscillators and sensory feedback loops in the spinal cord that interact with the body and the environment. Here, we study these circuits with a focus on undulatory locomotion as produced by elongated ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2025

Intelligent Soft Robotic System for Sensing and Recognition via Triboelectric‐Based Multi‐Sensor Fusion

Xin Chen

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) serve as a key technology in flexible electronic devices, especially tactile sensors, enabling flexible robotic manipulators to effectively interact with their external environment. Persistent challenges include inadequ ...

Wiley2025

Musculoskeletal motor control with reinforcement learning

Alberto Silvio Chiappa

Animals, including humans, interact with the external environment primarily through motion. Replicating their motor control skills in artificial embodied agents is a major objective of artificial intelligence research. This thesis presents a collection of ...

EPFL2025

Filiform Variable Stiffness Technologies for Medical Robotics

Yegor Piskarev

In recent years, soft robotics has surged in applications like wearables, drones, smart fabrics, and medical instruments. Due to their compliance, these devices excel in tasks demanding dexterity and adaptability, such as manipulation, locomotion, crash re ...

EPFL2024

Ultra-high voltage, low power and energy recovering electronics for dielectric elastomer actuators

Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

Heart failure is a cardiovascular disease affecting between 1 and 2% of the population of developed countries alone - more than 10 million people - with this number bound to increase due to the ageing of the population. This condition starts to develop its ...

EPFL2022

Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Enrica Soria

Recent works in aerial robotics show that the self-organized and cohesive flight of swarms can emerge from the exchange of purely local information between neighboring agents. However, most of the current swarm models are not capable of flight in densely c ...

2022

Dexterous textile manipulation using electroadhesive fingers

Herbert Shea, Vito Cacucciolo, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti

Handling of fabric is a crucial step in the manufacturing of garments. This task is typically performed by trained workers who manipulate one sheet at a time, thus introducing a bottleneck in the automation of the textile industry. This paper seeks to addr ...

IEEE2021

The MuMMER Data Set for Robot Perception in Multi-party HRI Scenarios

Jean-Marc Odobez, Petr Motlicek, Olivier Canévet

This paper presents the MuMMER data set, a data set for human-robot interaction scenarios that is available for research purposes% It comprises 1 h 29 min of multimodal recordings of people interacting with the social robot Pepper in entertainment scenario ...

IEEE2020

Autonomous oil flow generated by self-oscillating polymer gels

Vito Cacucciolo

The previously reported gel and polymer actuators require external inputs, such as batteries, circuits, electronic circuits, etc., compared with autonomous motions produced by the living organisms. To realize the spontaneous motions, here, we propose to in ...

Nature Research2020

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Christos Comninellis, Hannes Bleuler, Rolf Wüthrich

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