Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field where robots are fabricated using highly deformable
materials and usually follow a bioinspired design. Their high dexterity and safety make them …

Recent advances in the rapidly growing field of soft robotics highlight the potential for
innovations in wearable soft robotics to meet challenges and opportunities affecting …

Haptic feedback can be used to improve immersion in virtual and augmented reality
systems. However, wearable haptic devices typically provide limited feedback, such as …

In the last decade, several new haptic devices have been developed, contributing to the
definition of more realistic virtual environments. An overview of this topic requires a …

Today's virtual reality (VR) systems allow users to explore immersive new worlds and
experiences through sight. Unfortunately, most VR systems lack haptic feedback, and even …

Conformable robotic systems are attractive for applications in which they may actuate
structures with large surface areas, provide forces through wearable garments, or enable …

Fiber–a primitive yet ubiquitous form of material–intertwines with our bodies and
surroundings, from constructing our fibrous muscles that enable our movement, to forming …

Today's consumer virtual reality (VR) systems offer limited haptic feedback via vibration
motors in handheld controllers. Rendering haptics to other parts of the body is an open …

Integration of soft haptic devices into garments can improve their usability and wearability for
daily computing interactions. In this paper, we introduce PneuSleeve, a fabric-based …

RoomShift is a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality, using a small
swarm of robots that can move furniture. RoomShift consists of nine shape-changing robots …