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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…
J. Diaz Peon Gonzalez Pacheco, J. Xu, A. Zhao, H. Zhou + 6 more
Infrastructure maintenance, contact-based inspection, and emergency response can benefit from aerial vehicles that act as a flying human hand with extreme maneuverability, manipulation, and resiliency (MMR): maneuverability to fly in arbitrary orientations to reach remote and tight locations; manipulation to point…
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…
Inwook Hwang, Seongcheol Mun, Jung-Hwan Youn, Hyeong Jun Kim + 5 more
'Seung Koo Park' 'Meejeong Choi' 'Tae June Kang' 'Qibing Pei' 'Sungryul Yun'] Reconfigurable tactile displays are being used to provide refreshable Braille information; however, the delivered information is currently limited to an alternative of Braille because of difficulties in controlling the deformation height.…
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…
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…
Nicola Trozzi, Wiktoria Wodniok, Robert Kelly-Bellow, Andrea Meraviglia + 6 more
'Andrea Meraviglia' 'Aurore Chételat' 'Nova Adkins' 'Brendan Lane' 'Richard S. Smith' 'Dorota Kwiatkowska' 'Mateusz Majda'] Background Plant growth and morphogenesis is a mechanical process controlled by genetic and molecular networks. Measuring mechanical properties at various scales is necessary to understand how…
D. Blackiston, S. Kriegman, J. Bongard, M. Levin
Advances in science and engineering often reveal the limitations of classical approaches initially used to understand, predict, and control phenomena. With progress, conceptual categories must often be re-evaluated to better track recently discovered invariants across disciplines. It is essential to refine frameworks…
Jesse T. Gonzalez, Yanzhen Zhang, Dian Zhu, Alice Yu + 7 more
It can be hard to design a physical structure entirely within the confines of a computer monitor. To better capture the interplay between real-world objects and a designer's work-in-progress, practitioners will often go through a sequence of low-fidelity prototypes (paper, clay, foam) before arriving at a form that…
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…
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…
Runze Zuo, Dong Heon Han, Richard Li, Saima Jamal + 1 more
Robotic arms are essential to modern industries, however, their adaptability to unstructured environments remains limited. Soft robotic arms, particularly those actuated pneumatically, offer greater adaptability in unstructured environments and enhanced safety for human-robot interaction. However, current pneumatic…
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…
Yuxiang Ma, Arpit Agarwal, Sandra Q. Liu, Wenzhen Yuan + 1 more
'Edward H. Adelson'] Abstract— Compliant grippers enable robots to work with humans in unstructured environments. In general, these grippers can improve with tactile sensing to estimate the state of objects around them to precisely manipulate objects. However, co-designing compliant structures with high-resolution…