Soft Perceptive Robots

This workshop seeks to assemble a community of experts, researchers, and industry professionals to delve into these crucial aspects.

A soft, self-sensing tensile valve for perceptive soft robots - Nature

We report a soft self-sensing tensile valve that integrates the functional capabilities of sensors and control valves to directly transform applied tensile ...

Soft Robotics: Perception Inspired by Humans - Medical Design Briefs

The system includes a motion capture system, soft sensors, a neural network, and a soft robotic finger. (Credit: UCSD) A perception system ...

Soft Robot Perception and Control

We are actively working on new soft robotic sensorization strategies and machine learning-based approaches to develop truly autonomous soft robots.

Recent Advances in Perceptive Intelligence for Soft Robotics - Lin

Recent advances in perceptive soft robots that utilize flexible/stretchable sensors and functional materials are outlined.

Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent ...

Drawing inspiration from the human perceptive system, we created a synthetic analog. Our synthetic system builds models using a redundant and ...

RESEARCH - Soft BioRobotics Perception - IIT

On the viewpoint of purely artificial approaches, we investigated methods that will not burden (at mechanical and electric levels) the hosting deformable robots ...

Toward Perceptive Soft Robots: Progress and Challenges - PMC

In the past few years, soft robotics has rapidly become an emerging research topic, opening new possibilities for addressing real‐world ...

Perspective for soft robotics: the field's past and future - IOPscience

Abstract. Since its beginnings in the 1960s, soft robotics has been a steadily growing field that has enjoyed recent growth with the advent of rapid prototyping ...

Toward Perceptive Soft Robots: Progress and Challenges - 2018

A variety of soft sensing technologies are available today, but there is still a gap to effectively utilize them in soft robots for practical ...

Computational design of ultra-robust strain sensors for soft robot ...

Compliant strain sensors are crucial for soft robots' perception and autonomy. However, their deformable bodies and dynamic actuation pose ...

Intelligent soft robotic fingers with multi-modality perception ability

This robotic manipulator successfully integrated TENG-based self-powered sensors, soft actuators, and artificial intelligence, demonstrating the potential for ...

Multi-modal perception for soft robotic interactions using generative ...

This paper introduces a perception model that harmonizes data from diverse modalities to build a holistic state representation and assimilate essential ...

Engineers build a soft robotics perception system inspired by humans

An international team of researchers has developed a perception system for soft robots inspired by the way humans process information about ...

Soft Robotic Perception System with Ultrasonic Auto-Positioning and ...

A soft robotic perception system with remote object positioning and a multimodal cognition capability is developed by integrating an ultrasonic sensor with ...

Call for Contributions - Soft Perceptive Robots

Best Poster Award: 150 USD. Young researchers and students are encouraged to participate. All abstracts should comply with the standard IEEE conference page ...

Towards perceptive and self-aware robots - Oxford Robotics Institute

With a sound expertise in tactile sensing the Soft Robotics Lab is pursuing research in this direction in order to take the human-robot collaboration to a whole ...

Advanced Design of Soft Robots with Artificial Intelligence

Recently, multifunctional sensors for perception of soft robotics have been rapidly developed, while more algorithms and models of machine ...

Is a soft robot more “natural”? Exploring the perception of soft ...

Soft robotics technology has been proposed for a number of applications that involve human–robot interaction. It is commonly presumed that soft robots are ...

Soft Robots' Dynamic Posture Perception Using Kirigami-Inspired ...

It is essential to have a sensor with both soft and flexible characteristics that does not affect the movement of a soft actuator. This paper presents a novel ...