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3D Printing Assisted Fabrication of Soft Robotic Hand with Embedded Soft Electronic Circuits

Introduction Despite the recent advancements in soft actuators and robots, integrating electronic functionalities into soft robotic systems remains a challenge. Particularly, a direct combination of conventional, rigid electronic components such as copper...

3D printing soft gripper stiffened by passive particle jamming

Introduction A variety different kinds of soft actuators based on different working principles have been developed. Most soft grippers do not allow stiffness modulation when grasping, these actuators cannot provide very high stiffness and large grasp...

3D Silicone Printer

Hello! Welcome to our 3D Silicone Printer project page. Our team has been working on this project for the last 2 years and we finally succeed to 3D print static and dynamic silicone objects. More importantly we bring the 3D printed soft robots alive. Here...

A Synergistic Design Leveraging the Diverse Functionalities of Soft- and Rigid-Bodied Robots

Soft robots offer the versatility to accomplish a number of basic functions, including moving in tight spaces, climbing walls, and grasping items. This versatility comes naturally through actuation mechanisms that provide large forces and displacements in...

About

Toolkit Devlopment The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses ( Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014). The Toolkit was...

Artificial eyelid closure using soft exopatches

The major symptom of Bell’s Palsy (and other facial nerve related illnesses) is an inability to close the eyelid or blink, which can lead to blindness if left untreated. Although most patients recover fully in 3 months, most treatment methods require...

B-Robot

Our proposed Idea: B-Robot (BROBOT) Science-fiction movies have always been an inspiration for scientists and researchers. The Star Wars franchise deserves a special mention here, having inspired some of the products that we see today like smartphones...

Bio-inspired Manta Ray Robot

About the Project This project aims to use the efficiency of nature to create a nimble Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) with a considerable service life. To do this, the team turned to its attention to a master of efficiency in our oceans, the manta...

Case Studies

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Combustion-Driven Actuators

Combustion-driven actuators (CDAs) are a class of soft actuators. They use the ignition of combustible mixtures (i.e. air-methane) to drive actuation. The Functional Material Laboratory at ETH Zurich has developed a fabrication technique for production of...

Components

An actuator is a component of a machine that is responsible for moving or controlling a mechanism or system. An actuator requires a control signal and a source of energy. A sensor is a device that detects and responds to some type of input from the...

ConTact Sensors

The ConTact Sensor is a force and contact area sensitive sensor developed at rombolabs at the University of Washington that can be easily integrated into most soft-robotics designs. Using the fluidic conductive medium already inherent in soft robots, the...

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