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Behnam Kia, Allen Mendes, Akshay Parnami, Robin George + 3 more
'Kenneth Mobley' 'William L. Ditto' 'Andrew Adamatzky'] The core element of machine learning is a flexible, universal function approximator that can be trained and fit into the data. One of the main challenges in modern machine learning is to understand the role of nonlinearity and complexity in these universal…
Tran Vy Khanh Vo, Tan Kai Noel Quah, Li Ting Chua, King Ho Holden Li + 1 more
The art of folding paper, named “origami”, has transformed from serving religious and cultural purposes to various educational and entertainment purposes in the modern world. Significantly, the fundamental folds and creases in origami, which enable the creation of 3D structures from a simple flat sheet with unique…
Jeonhyeong Park, Qifeng Lu, Ben Jeffery, Heling Wang + 1 more
Soft 3D systems capable of dynamic, real-time shape morphing have broad applications in flexible electronics, biomedical devices, and soft robotics. Existing methods typically rely on stress relaxation in prestretched elastomeric substrates to transform 2D precursors into 3D structures. However, these structures lack…
Shiwei Xu, Chuanqi Zang, Zhenjia Tang, Ruoxi Yang + 10 more
Inspired by natural species exploiting morphological changes to adapt to complex environments, morphable robots have emerged as a frontier of robots with embodied intelligence, particularly for multimodal and cross-domain locomotion. However, the development of small-scale flexible actuators with dual programmability…
Rodrigo Moreno, Andres Faiña
This work presents a platform for evolution of morphology in full cycle reconfigurable hardware: The EMERGE (Easy Modular Embodied Robot Generator) modular robot platform. Three parts necessary to implement a full cycle process, i.e., assembling the modules in morphologies, testing the morphologies, disassembling…
Dong Han, Xiaohao Xu, Chen, Yuxi + 5 more
—Biological systems, such as the octopus, exhibit masterful cross-scale manipulation by adaptively reconfiguring their entire form, a capability that remains elusive in robotics. Conventional soft grippers, while compliant, are mostly constrained by a fixed global morphology, and prior shape-morphing efforts have been…
Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles Martín, Jim Tørresen, Kyrre Glette
— Evolutionary robotics has aimed to optimize robot control and morphology to produce better and more robust robots. Most previous research only addresses optimization of control, and does this only in simulation. We have developed a four-legged mammal-inspired robot that features a selfreconfiguring morphology. In…
Matteo Cianchetti
The soft robotics community is currently wondering what the future of soft robotics is. Therefore, it is very important to identify the directions in which the community should focus its efforts to consolidate its impact. The identification of convincing applications is a priority, especially to demonstrate that some…
Nicholas Farrow, Yang Li, Nikolaus Correll
We present a self-contained, soft robotic hand composed of soft pneumatic actuator modules that are equipped with strain and pressure sensing. We show how this data can be used to discern whether a grasp was successful. Colocating sensing and embedded computation with the actuators greatly simplifies control and system…
Davide Zappetti, Jean Marc Bejjani, Dario Floreano
— Tensegrity structures are lightweight, can undergo large deformations, and have outstanding robustness capabilities. These unique properties inspired roboticists to investigate their use. However, the morphological design, control, assembly, and actuation of tensegrity robots are still difficult tasks. Moreover, the…
Quilee Simeon, Justin M. Wei, Yile Fan
Recent agentic-robotics systems, from Code-asPolicies to modern vision-language-action (VLA) foundation models, presuppose that drivers, SDKs, or ROS-style primitives for the target hardware already exist. Writing those primitives is the dominant engineering cost of bringing up new hardware for agent control. We…
Michael Jones, Kevin Seppi
We present a method for sculpting deployable prototypes of interactive physical objects—which we call "PhysiComps." Building a deployable PhysiComp that merges form and function typically involves a significant investment of time and skill in digital electronics, 3D modeling and mechanical design. We aim to help…
Gopinathan Janarthanan, Rashik Chand, Sanjairaj Vijayavenkataraman
Conventional extrusion-based 3D bioprinting encounters limitations in fabricating intricate tissue architectures due to fixed nozzle diameters and fixed deposition orientations. These constraints restrict conformal printing on curved or non-planar surfaces and often necessitate support-intensive fabrication strategies.…
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The emergence of affordable and reliable 3D printers has enabled laboratories to optimize setups, print custom parts, accelerate research, and rapidly prototype. A new movement has emerged in the past decade, where 3D printers are repurposed as laboratory-specific robots. There are three distinct approaches in the…
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— Soft robots enable safe, adaptive interaction with complex environments but remain difficult to sense and control due to their highly deformable structures. Architected soft materials such as helicoid lattices offer tunable stiffness and strength but are challenging to instrument because of their sparse geometry. We…
Sander Baas, Vittorio Saggiomo
Ender 3 syringe pumps is an open source and open hardware device for converting an Ender 3 kit to a set of 3 syringe pumps. Almost everything needed for the build is the Ender 3 kit, even all the screws and the tools needed for the assembly. The only parts which needed to be bought are three 5x5 shaft couplers and M5…
Xavier Cano-Ferrer, Ruairí J.V. Roberts, Alice S. French, Joost de Folter + 5 more
Behaviour is the ultimate output of neural circuit computations, and therefore its analysis is a cornerstone of neuroscience research. However, every animal and experimental paradigm requires different illumination conditions to capture and, in some cases, manipulate specific behavioural features. This means that…
Kamila M. Jozwik, Jonathan O’Keeffe, Katherine R. Storrs, Wenxuan Guo + 2 more
Human vision is attuned to the subtle differences between individual faces. Yet we lack a quantitative way of predicting how similar two face images look, or whether they appear to show the same person. Principal-components-based 3D morphable models are widely used to generate stimuli in face perception research. These…
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This paper details a 3D-printed plate handler designed to address the limitation of automated plate manipulation within the Opentrons OT-2 liquid handling robot. The hardware enables precise, automated labware transfer, expanding the OT-2’s capabilities for complex biological and chemical assays. Technically, it…
Ziad Ibbini, Maria Bruning, Sakina Allili, Luke A Holmes + 4 more
Phenomics is the acquisition of high-dimensional data on an individual-wide scale and is proving transformational in areas of biological research related to human health including medicine and the crop sciences. However, more broadly, a lack of available transferrable technologies and research approaches is…
Ivan Kondratyev, Weinan Sun
AI coding assistants excel at software tasks but lack structured access to laboratory hardware, the physical instruments that define experimental science. We present Ataraxis, an open-source framework that provides hardware control capabilities spanning camera acquisition, microcontroller communication, precision…