Junil Min

Soft Robots Grow a Spine: Origami-Inspired Folding Endoskeletal Support for Motion and Stiffness Control of Inflatable Robots

We present a deployable inflatable robotic torso with an origami-inspired spine, designed to combine the inherent compliance of soft robots with the controllability of skeletal structures. Unlike simple inflatable cylinders, which deform unpredictably through membrane buckling, our approach embeds a…