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Design, fabrication and control of soft robots by Rus, Daniela, Tolley, Michael T.

“…Conventionally, engineers have employed rigid materials to fabricate precise, predictable robotic systems, which are easily modelled as rigid members connected…”
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Design, fabrication and control of origami robots by Rus, Daniela, Tolley, Michael T.

“…Origami robots are created using folding processes, which provide a simple approach to fabricating a wide range of robot morphologies. Inspired by biological…”
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A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion by Bartlett, Nicholas W., Tolley, Michael T., Overvelde, Johannes T. B., Weaver, James C., Mosadegh, Bobak, Bertoldi, Katia, Whitesides, George M., Wood, Robert J.

“…Roboticists have begun to design biologically inspired robots with soft or partially soft bodies, which have the potential to be more robust and adaptable, and…”
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Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots by Shih, Benjamin, Shah, Dylan, Li, Jinxing, Thuruthel, Thomas G, Park, Yong-Lae, Iida, Fumiya, Bao, Zhenan, Kramer-Bottiglio, Rebecca, Tolley, Michael T

“…Soft robots have garnered interest for real-world applications because of their intrinsic safety embedded at the material level. These robots use deformable…”
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Bioinspired soft robots for deep-sea exploration by Li, Guorui, Wong, Tuck-Whye, Shih, Benjamin, Guo, Chunyu, Wang, Luwen, Liu, Jiaqi, Wang, Tao, Liu, Xiaobo, Yan, Jiayao, Wu, Baosheng, Yu, Fajun, Chen, Yunsai, Liang, Yiming, Xue, Yaoting, Wang, Chengjun, He, Shunping, Wen, Li, Tolley, Michael T., Zhang, A-Man, Laschi, Cecilia, Li, Tiefeng

“…The deep ocean, Earth’s untouched expanse, presents immense challenges for exploration due to its extreme pressure, temperature, and darkness. Unlike…”
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An End-to-End Approach to Self-Folding Origami Structures by An, Byoungkwon, Miyashita, Shuhei, Ong, Aaron, Tolley, Michael T., Demaine, Martin L., Demaine, Erik D., Wood, Robert J., Rus, Daniela

“…This paper presents an end-to-end approach to automate the design and fabrication process for self-folding origami structures. Self-folding origami structures…”
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Design Considerations for 3D Printed, Soft, Multimaterial Resistive Sensors for Soft Robotics by Shih, Benjamin, Christianson, Caleb, Gillespie, Kyle, Lee, Sebastian, Mayeda, Jason, Huo, Zhaoyuan, Tolley, Michael T

“…Sensor design for soft robots is a challenging problem because of the wide range of design parameters (e.g., geometry, material, actuation type, etc.) critical…”
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Directionally Compliant Legs Enabling Crevasse Traversal in Small Ground‐Based Robots by Lathrop, Emily, Tolley, Michael T., Gravish, Nick

“…Small ground‐based robots show promise for locomotion on complex surfaces. A critical application area for such robots is movement over complex terrain and…”
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Morphing Structure for Changing Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Soft Underwater Walking Robot by Ishida, Michael, Drotman, Dylan, Shih, Benjamin, Hermes, Mark, Luhar, Mitul, Tolley, Michael T.

“…Existing platforms for underwater exploration and inspection are often limited to traversing open water and must expend large amounts of energy to maintain a…”
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Toward Robotic Sensing and Swimming in Granular Environments using Underactuated Appendages by Chopra, Shivam, Vasile, Drago, Jadhav, Saurabh, Tolley, Michael T, Gravish, Nick

“…Granular environments, such as sand, are one of the most challenging substrates for robots to move within due to large depth‐dependent forces, unpredictable…”
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Controlling the motion of gas-lubricated adhesive disks using multiple vibration sources by Jia, Chengzhe, Ramanarayanan, Sankaran, Sanchez, Antonio L., Tolley, Michael T.

“…Robots capable of generating adhesion forces that can achieve free movement in application environments while overcoming their own gravity are a subject of…”
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Power Amplification for Jumping Soft Robots Actuated by Artificial Muscles by Fernandes Minori, Adriane, Jadhav, Saurabh, Chen, Haojin, Fong, Samantha, Tolley, Michael T

“…Robots composed of soft materials can passively adapt to constrained environments and mitigate damage due to impact. Given these features, jumping has been…”
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Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer-based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation by He, Qiguang, Wang, Zhijian, Wang, Yang, Minori, Adriane, Tolley, Michael T, Cai, Shengqiang

“…Soft tubular actuators can be widely found both in nature and in engineering applications. The benefits of tubular actuators include (i) multiple actuation…”
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Gas‐Lubricated Vibration‐Based Adhesion for Robotics by Weston-Dawkes, William P., Adibnazari, Iman, Hu, Yi-Wen, Everman, Michael, Gravish, Nick, Tolley, Michael T.

“…Controllable adhesion has the capability to enable mobile robots to move freely across vertical and inverted surfaces for applications such as inspection,…”
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Branching Vine Robots for Unmapped Environments by Glick, Paul E, Adibnazari, Iman, Drotman, Dylan, Ruffatto Iii, Donald, Tolley, Michael T

“…While exploring complex unmapped spaces is a persistent challenge for robots, plants are able to reliably accomplish this task. In this work we develop…”
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Scalable Fluidic Matrix Circuits for Controlling Large Arrays of Individually Addressable Actuators by Jadhav, Saurabh, Glick, Paul E., Ishida, Michael, Chan, Christian, Adibnazari, Iman, Schulze, Jurgen P., Gravish, Nick, Tolley, Michael T.

“…A fundamental challenge of pneumatically powered soft robotic devices is the scalability of fluidic control systems to address each actuated degree of freedom,…”
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Application-Driven Design of Soft, 3-D Printed, Pneumatic Actuators With Bellows by Drotman, Dylan, Ishida, Michael, Jadhav, Saurabh, Tolley, Michael T.

“…Soft robots are flexible and adaptable allowing them to conform to objects of different shapes and sizes. However, the flexibility of soft robots leads to…”
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Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Robot Driven by Fluid Electrode Dielectric Organic Robotic Actuators by Christianson, Caleb, Bayag, Christopher, Li, Guorui, Jadhav, Saurabh, Giri, Ayush, Agba, Chibuike, Li, Tiefeng, Tolley, Michael T

“…Robots for underwater exploration are typically comprised of rigid materials and driven by propellers or jet thrusters, which consume a significant amount of…”
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A Soft Robotic Gripper With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive by Glick, Paul, Suresh, Srinivasan A., Ruffatto, Donald, Cutkosky, Mark, Tolley, Michael T., Parness, Aaron

“…Previous work has demonstrated the versatility of soft robotic grippers using simple control inputs. However, these grippers still face challenges in grasping…”
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Soft Robotics: Review of Fluid‐Driven Intrinsically Soft Devices; Manufacturing, Sensing, Control, and Applications in Human‐Robot Interaction by Polygerinos, Panagiotis, Correll, Nikolaus, Morin, Stephen A., Mosadegh, Bobak, Onal, Cagdas D., Petersen, Kirstin, Cianchetti, Matteo, Tolley, Michael T., Shepherd, Robert F.

“…The emerging field of soft robotics makes use of many classes of materials including metals, low glass transition temperature (Tg) plastics, and high Tg…”
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