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Josh Pinskier

4 accepted papers

2026

A Compliant Robotic Leg Based on Fibre Jamming (Abstract Reprint)

AAAI 2026technical

Humans possess a remarkable ability to react to unpredictable perturbations through immediate mechanical responses, which harness the visco-elastic properties of muscles to maintain balance. Inspired by this behavior, we propose a novel design of a robotic leg utilizing fibre jamming. The research h

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2024

A ’MAP’ to find high-performing soft robot designs: Traversing complex design spaces using MAP-elites and Topology Optimization

IROS 2024poster

Soft robotics has emerged as the standard solution for grasping deformable objects, and has proven invaluable for mobile robotic exploration in extreme environments. However, despite this growth, there are no widely adopted computational design tools that produce quality, manufacturable designs. To…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Demonstrating Event-Triggered Investigation and Sample Collection for Human Scientists using Field Robots and Large Foundation Models

RSS 2024poster

In this paper, we introduce a pioneering end-to-end system demonstrated on a team of robots and sensors, designed to augment scientific exploration and discovery for human scientists in remote or inaccessible environments. We demonstrate and analyse our system's capability in a mock-up test-bed scen…

2024

PINN-Ray: A Physics-Informed Neural Network to Model Soft Robotic Fin Ray Fingers

IROS 2024poster

Modelling complex deformation for soft robotics provides a guideline to understand their behaviour, leading to safe interaction with the environment. However, building a surrogate model with high accuracy and fast inference speed can be challenging for soft robotics due to the nonlinearity from comp…

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