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Control Board v1
The Soft Robotics Toolkit Control Board is an open source hardware platform that can be used to operate and control fluidic soft actuators, such as the PneuNets Bending Actuator or the Fiber-Reinforced Actuators described on this site. The purpose of the...

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
Dielectric elastomers actuators (DEA) are a class of electroactive polymers which work based on inducing of deformation with an electric field, which was demonstrated in 1880 by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen by spraying charges on a piece of natural rubber (...

EGaIn Sensors
These sensors use liquid metal (eutectic Indium Gallium alloy, a.k.a. EGaIn) inside flexible microchannels. When stretched, the geometry of the channels changes resulting in a change of resistance. By measuring the change in resistance it is possible to...

Fabric-Reinforced Controlled Motion Robot - FRCMR
Soft robots are robots comprised entirely or partially out of soft materials. Their soft nature provides these robots with unique qualities such as the ability to yield when pressed against a hard surface as well as protections against blunt trauma. Soft...

Fabrication Guides
The soft robotics fabrication guides are educational tools to be used for the instruction of soft robotics within the classroom, extracurricular clubs and within workshops. These guides detail the fabrication process for each activity listed and are...

FeTCh Mark 1 Manipulator

Introduction The objective of this project is the design and implementation of a soft manipulator robot based on hybrid actuation capable of interacting with delicate objects and with the ability to team up with humans with safety due to non-hazardous...

Fiber-Reinforced Actuators
Fiber-reinforced actuators are a class of soft actuator that have been developed by a number of research groups around the world in recent years. The basic design consists of an elastomer bladder wrapped with inextensible reinforcements. Wrapping the...

Fluidic Control Board
The Soft Robotics Toolkit Control Board is an open source hardware platform that can be used to operate and control fluidic soft actuators, such as the PneuNets Bending Actuator or the Fiber-Reinforced Actuators described on this site. The purpose of the...

Flxo - Plug-n-Play 3d Printed Soft Actuators
FLXO FLXO is a thinking tool for soft-robotics exploration. It is a platform consisting of modular interlocking pneumatic muscles that easily integrate with other robotics kits on the market. At present FLXO is designed to integrate with the VeX robotics...

Foam-based Soft Actuators
Foam actuators are a type of soft actuator that were originally developed in the Organic Robotics Lab at Cornell University. They are composed of an open-celled elastomer foam which is sealed with a nonporous elastomer. The main advantage of these...

Food for Thought - Edible Actuators
An Exploration into Soft Robotic 'Candy' Actuators One of the goals of soft robotics is the ability to interface with the human body. Traditionally, silicone materials have dominated the field of soft robotics. In order to shift to materials that are more...