Soft Robotic Toolkit Competition to go Live July 10th!
On July 10th, the 2023 Soft Robotic Toolkit Competition will go live! Please find all relevant material on our competition page. We look forward to your entry!
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Robosoft 2023 in Singapore!
IEEE-RAS RoboSoft 2023 is happening this week in Singapore (April 3 - 7)! F ollow the conference updates on LinkedIn ( https://linkedin.com/in/ ieeerobosoft), Twitter ( https://twitter.com/ IEEERoboSoft), and Telegram ( https://t.me/ieeerobosoft), and be...
Project Highlight: The Aposma Mask
The Aposma Mask, a conceptual soft robotic prosthetic, is made to enhance the emotions of the wearer using colorful liquid actuated through internal channels of the mask. The project was created as part of a Masters thesis project by Sirou Peng, Adi Meyer...
Soft Robotics Toolkit News - September 2017
Announcing 'Resources for Educators' Tab The Soft Robotics Toolkit team is pleased to announce the launch of the Resources for Educators tab! Here at the Soft Robotics Toolkit, we strive to continue our efforts to make content available to a broader...
Soft Robotics Toolkit News - August 2017
New Toolkit Menu If you’ve visited us recently, you may have noticed our menu has changed. In an effort to help our users better navigate the site, we’ve updated our menu to make navigation easier and make some room for new content. Following this new...
Soft Robotics Toolkit News - July 2017
Soft Robotics Week at the Ed Portal! As part of our continuing outreach efforts the toolkit hosted the second year of a weeklong workshop at the Harvard Ed Portal. The Ed Portal, a collaboration between Harvard, the city of Boston and the Allston-Brighton...
Soft Robotics Toolkit News - January 2016
Announcing the 2016 Soft Robotics Design Competitions If you have a soft spot for robotics, this competition is right up your alley. The 2016 Soft Robotics Competitions offer anyone with an interest in robotics the chance to design and build their own...
PopSci - HOW TO BUILD A SOFT ROBOT HAND
In the field of soft robotics, engineers use squishy materials to make robots durable, flexible, and safer to operate around humans. Now intrepid DIYers can also bring life to squishy machines: Last September, Harvard University published an open-access...
Gizmodo - Inside The Experimental Robotics Lab Where Machines Are Getting Softer
Last week, an artificially intelligent robot scared me to death . The next day, I travelled to Carnegie Mellon University where I met a lab full of robots designed to do the exact opposite. Big, soft, and inflatable, these robots are Disney characters in...
Soft squishy robotics coming in the future
You probably remember the cute, soft and inflatable robot called Baymax that took care of Hiro in the movie Big Hero 6. It turns out that the makers of the Disney animation were inspired by actual soft robotic technologies developed by researchers at the...
CNET - Tomorrow Daily - Episode #062: Harvard's soft robotics toolkit and more
The toolkit was featured on CNET's Tomorrow Daily - Episode #062: Harvard's soft robotics toolkit, a Zombie Train, the Synapse dress and more To watch the portion just about the toolkit, click here. You can also watch the full episode here!
Soft Robotics Competitions Offer $10,000 in Prizes
There’s still time to sign up your team for the 2015 Soft Robotics Competitions! For the design competition, entrants are charged with creating a novel device using at least one of the tools available on Harvard’s Soft Robotics Toolkit Website. The entire...
