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Research Highlight (with article links)

From design inspiration to technological and manufacturing innovation in soft robotic systems

From biological Inspiration to advanced soft robotics prototyping: Robust object gripping across multiple length scales


Octopus arm-inspired tapered soft actuators with suckers for improved grasping


Zhexin Xie, August G Domel, Ning An, Connor Green, Zheyuan Gong, Tianmiao Wang, Elias M Knubben,

James C Weaver, Katia Bertoldi, Li Wen


Soft Robotics


From ship hulls to pipeline inspection: Reversible magnetic adhesion in soft robotic appendages

An ambidextrous starfish-inspired exploration and reconnaissance robot (the ASTER-bot)

Michael A Bell, James C Weaver, Robert J Wood

Soft Robotics 9 (5), 991-1000

SoftRobo_files/3DPAM_2023.pdf
SoftRobo_files/3DPAM_2023_1.pdf
The incredibly versatile Noodle Gripper

Active entanglement enables stochastic, topological grasping

Kaitlyn Becker, Clark Teeple, Nicholas Charles, Yeonsu Jung, Daniel Baum, James C Weaver, L Mahadevan, Robert Wood

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
119 (42), e2209819119 SoftRobo_files/3DPAM_2023_2.pdf
SoftRobo_files/3DPAM_2023_3.pdf

Continuous fabrication of fully customizable textile-based actuators


3D knitting for pneumatic soft robotics


Vanessa Sanchez, Kausalya Mahadevan, Gabrielle Ohlson, Moritz A Graule, Michelle C Yuen, Clark B Teeple, James C Weaver, James McCann, Katia Bertoldi, Robert J Wood


Advanced Functional Materials

2212541

Experimental research platform for soft robotic gait optimization

Design, fabrication, and characterization of an untethered amphibious sea urchin-inspired robot

Thibaut Paschal, Michael A Bell, Jakob Sperry, Satchel Sieniewicz, Robert J Wood, James C Weaver

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 
4 (4), 3348-3354
SoftRobo_files/3DPAM_2023_4.pdf
SoftRobo_files/3DPAM_2023_5.pdf
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