soft robotics research

Glowee, c'est la mer qui nous éclaire. Une source de lumière vivante, qui fonctionne sans consommer d'électricité, et en émettant peu de pollution lumineuse et de CO2. Une lumière tout droit venue de la nature, à la croisée entre le biomimétisme et la biologie synthétique, prête à révolutionner notre manière de produire, de consommer et de s'illuminer !

When you're just a child, there's nothing better than a clown and a few balloon animals to make your birthday party one to remember. There's just something unforgettable about experiencing a balloon twisting in action—the contortion of the balloon, that rubber smell, and the inevitable high-pitched squeakiness that fills the room until a bunny or giraffe appears. But that clown might need to get a new act soon. In the land of Switzerland, a team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Disney Research are using a 3D printer to create balloons of any shape and size—bunny or giraffe

A new paper released by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) details the creation of gelatin-based actuators, a..

In fields such as soft and compliant robotics, pneumatic actuation and inflatable structures have become quite commonplace. In fact, much of the work done at Super-Releaser involves such elements (http://superreleaser.com/project-profiles/). However, researchers in the Tangible Media Group a

August 2 2016 Purdue University and Engineering ByDesign NSF ITEST Grant #1513175-DRL

Suzumori Endo Lab in Tokyo Institute of Technology has developed a 20m-long robot arm named “Giacometti Arm with Balloon Body”. The Giacometti Arm with Ballo...