Preston Luk

VSL-Skin: Individually Addressable Phase-Change Voxel Skin for Variable-Stiffness and Virtual Joints Bridging Soft and Rigid Robots

Soft robots exhibit compliance but lack load support and pose retention, while rigid robots provide structural capacity but sacrifice adaptability. Existing variable-stiffness approaches operate at segment or patch scales, preventing precise spatial control over stiffness distribution and virtual jo…