3 accepted papers
Soft robots exhibit natural compliance which is desirable in many applications, but often require stiffness modulation techniques when more rigidity is needed. However, many existing stiffening techniques lack portability or fast response times, hindering the ubiquitous adoption of soft robots. Here…
Existing stretch and touch sensors for robots are generally expensive with respect to at least one of material costs, required manufacturing equipment, or manufacturing time. We present and experimentally characterize a conductive fiber made using only inexpensive commercial off-the-shelf parts (con…
Soft robots exhibit natural compliance which is desirable in many applications, but often require stiffness modulation techniques when more rigidity is needed. However, many existing stiffening techniques lack portability or fast response times, hindering the ubiquitous adoption of soft robots. Here