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Digital logic for soft devices by Preston, Daniel J., Rothemund, Philipp, Jiang, Haihui Joy, Nemitz, Markus P., Rawson, Jeff, Suo, Zhigang, Whitesides, George M.

“…Although soft devices (grippers, actuators, and elementary robots) are rapidly becoming an integral part of the broad field of robotics, autonomy for…”
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Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective by Aracri, Simona, Giorgio-Serchi, Francesco, Suaria, Giuseppe, Sayed, Mohammed E, Nemitz, Markus P, Mahon, Stephen, Stokes, Adam A

“…The ocean and human activities related to the sea are under increasing pressure due to climate change, widespread pollution, and growth of the offshore energy…”
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The Limpet: A ROS-Enabled Multi-Sensing Platform for the ORCA Hub by Sayed, Mohammed E, Nemitz, Markus P, Aracri, Simona, McConnell, Alistair C, McKenzie, Ross M, Stokes, Adam A

“…The oil and gas industry faces increasing pressure to remove people from dangerous offshore environments. Robots present a cost-effective and safe method for…”
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Modular Robots for Enabling Operations in Unstructured Extreme Environments by Sayed, Mohammed E., Roberts, Jamie O., Donaldson, Karen, Mahon, Stephen T., Iqbal, Faiz, Li, Boyang, Franco Aixela, Santiago, Mastorakis, Georgios, Jonasson, Emil T., Nemitz, Markus P., Bernardini, Sara, Stokes, Adam A.

“…Operations in extreme and hostile environments, such as offshore oil and gas production, nuclear decommissioning, nuclear facility maintenance, deep mining,…”
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Capability by Stacking: The Current Design Heuristic for Soft Robots by Mahon, Stephen T, Roberts, Jamie O, Sayed, Mohammed E, Chun, Derek Ho-Tak, Aracri, Simona, McKenzie, Ross M, Nemitz, Markus P, Stokes, Adam A

“…Soft robots are a new class of systems being developed and studied by robotics scientists. These systems have a diverse range of applications including sub-sea…”
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Multi-Functional Sensing for Swarm Robots Using Time Sequence Classification: HoverBot, an Example by Nemitz, Markus P, Marcotte, Ryan J, Sayed, Mohammed E, Ferrer, Gonzalo, Hero, Alfred O, Olson, Edwin, Stokes, Adam A

“…Scaling up robot swarms to collectives of hundreds or even thousands without sacrificing sensing, processing, and locomotion capabilities is a challenging…”
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Programmable soft valves for digital and analog control by Decker, Colter J, Jiang, Haihui Joy, Nemitz, Markus P, Root, Samuel E, Rajappan, Anoop, Alvarez, Jonathan T, Tracz, Jovanna, Wille, Lukas, Preston, Daniel J, Whitesides, George M

“…In soft devices, complex actuation sequences and precise force control typically require hard electronic valves and microcontrollers. Existing designs for…”
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Elastic-instability–enabled locomotion by Nagarkar, Amit, Lee, Won-Kyu, Preston, Daniel J., Nemitz, Markus P., Deng, Nan-Nan, Whitesides, George M., Mahadevan, L.

“…Locomotion of an organism interacting with an environment is the consequence of a symmetry-breaking action in space-time. Here we show a minimal instantiation…”
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Mimicking lightning-induced electrochemistry on the early Earth by Jiang, Haihui Joy, Underwood, Thomas C, Bell, Jeffrey G, Lei, Jonathan, Gonzales, Joe C, Emge, Lukas, Tadese, Leah G, Abd El-Rahman, Mohamed K, Wilmouth, David M, Brazaca, Lais C, Ni, Gigi, Belding, Lee, Dey, Supriya, Ashkarran, Ali Akbar, Nagarkar, Amit, Nemitz, Markus P, Cafferty, Brian J, Sayres, David S, Ranjan, Sukrit, Crocker, Daniel R, Anderson, James G, Sasselov, Dimitar D, Whitesides, George M

“…To test the hypothesis that an abiotic Earth and its inert atmosphere could form chemically reactive carbon- and nitrogen-containing compounds, we designed a…”
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Tube-Balloon Logic for the Exploration of Fluidic Control Elements by Tracz, Jovanna A., Wille, Lukas, Pathiraja, Dylan, Kendre, Savita V., Pfisterer, Ron, Turett, Ethan, Abrahamsson, Christoffer K., Root, Samuel E., Lee, Won-Kyu, Preston, Daniel J., Jiang, Haihui Joy, Whitesides, George M., Nemitz, Markus P.

“…The control of pneumatically driven soft robots typically requires electronics. Microcontrollers are connected to power electronics that switch valves and…”
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The Soft Compiler: A Web-Based Tool for the Design of Modular Pneumatic Circuits for Soft Robots by Kendre, Savita V., Whiteside, Lauryn, Fan, Tian Y., Tracz, Jovanna A., Teran, Gus T., Underwood, Thomas C., Sayed, Mohammed E., Jiang, Haihui J., Stokes, Adam A., Preston, Daniel J., Whitesides, George M., Nemitz, Markus P.

“…Developing soft circuits from individual soft logic gates poses a unique challenge: with increasing numbers of logic gates, the design and implementation of…”
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An all soft, electro-pneumatic controller for soft robots by Garrad, Martin, Feeney, Isabella, Conn, Andrew T., Rossiter, Jonathan, Nemitz, Markus P., Hauser, Helmut

“…Despite an ever increasing variety of soft sensors and actuators, there are few entirely soft robots that integrate both modalities into an autonomous system…”
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Bio-inspired design of soft mechanisms using a toroidal hydrostat by Root, Samuel E., Preston, Daniel J., Feifke, Gideon O., Wallace, Hunter, Alcoran, Renz Marion, Nemitz, Markus P., Tracz, Jovanna A., Whitesides, George M.

“…Biology is replete with soft mechanisms of potential use for robotics. Here, we report that a soft, toroidal hydrostat can be used to perform three functions…”
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Corrections to: "The Soft Compiler: A Web-Based Tool for the Design of Modular Pneumatic Circuits for Soft Robots" by Kendre, Savita V., Whiteside, Lauryn, Fan, Tian Y., Tracz, Jovanna A., Teran, Gus T., Underwood, Thomas C., Sayed, Mohammed E., Jiang, Haihui J., Stokes, Adam A., Preston, Daniel J., Whitesides, George M., Nemitz, Markus P.

“…In Section “I. Introduction” on page 6060 of our original article [1], we describe Rothemund et al.’s work on the soft bistable valve [2]. The corresponding…”
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SOPHIA: Soft Orthotic Physiotherapy Hand Interactive Aid by McConnell, Alistair C., Vallejo, Marta, Moioli, Renan Cipriano, Brasil, Fabricio L., Secciani, Nicola, Nemitz, Markus P., Riquart, Cecile P., Corne, David W., Vargas, Patricia A., Stokes, Adam A.

“…This work describes the design, fabrication, and initial testing of a Soft Orthotic Physiotherapy Hand Interactive Aid (SOPHIA) for stroke rehabilitation…”
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Programmable Switching of Fluids via Pre-Twisting by Wu, Yijia, Nemitz, Markus P.

“…Manipulating airflow is important for controlling pneumatically actuated soft robots, however, current switching techniques suffer from leakage under high…”
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HoverBots: Precise Locomotion Using Robots That Are Designed for Manufacturability by Nemitz, Markus P., Sayed, Mohammed E., Mamish, John, Ferrer, Gonzalo, Teng, Lijun, McKenzie, Ross M., Hero, Alfred O., Olson, Edwin, Stokes, Adam A.

“…Scaling up robot swarms to collectives of hundreds or even thousands without sacrificing sensing, processing, and locomotion capabilities is a challenging…”
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Vision-based FDM Printing for Fabricating Airtight Soft Actuators by Wu, Yijia, Dai, Zilin, Liu, Haotian, Wang, Lehong, Nemitz, Markus P.

“…Pneumatic soft robots are typically fabricated by molding, a manual fabrication process that requires skilled labor. Additive manufacturing has the potential…”
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FDM Printing: A Fabrication Method for Fluidic Soft Circuits? by Kendre, Savita V., Wang, Lehong, Wilke, Ethan, Pacheco, Nicholas, Fichera, Loris, Nemitz, Markus P.

“…Existing fluidic soft logic gates for controlling soft robots typically depend on labor-intensive manual fabrication or costly printing methods. In our…”
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Soft Fluidic Closed-Loop Controller for Untethered Underwater Gliders by Bonofiglio, Kalina, Whiteside, Lauryn, Angeles, Maya, Haahr, Matthew, Simpson, Brandon, Palmer, Josh, Wu, Yijia, Nemitz, Markus P.

“…Soft underwater robots typically explore bio-inspired designs at the expense of power efficiency when compared to traditional underwater robots, which limits…”
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