Nathan Justus

2 accepted papers

2026

SIPHON: An Origami Soft Salp Robot

Brian Van Stratum, Nathan Justus, Ross Hatton, Joseph Davidson, Geoffrey Hollinger

ICRA 2026poster

We present SIPHON, a Salp-Inspired robot designed to utilize Passive Hydrodynamics, and equipped with soft robotic Origami bellows and soft Nozzles. We reveal the construction, including a novel use of an interlocking origami Kresling pattern, along with duckbill and mammal-heart-inspired valves. We…

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2022

Amoeba-inspired swimming through isoperimetric modulation of body shape

Curtis Sparks, Nathan Justus, Ross Hatton, Nick Gravish

IROS 2022poster

In this work we present the design of a swimming robot that is inspired by the body shape modulation of small microorganisms. Amoebas are small single celled organisms that locomote through deformation and shape change of their body. To achieve similar shape modulation for swimming propulsion in a r…

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