Mass personalization is becoming a reality. It requires responsive and flexible
manufacturing operations for producing individualized products in dynamic batch sizes at …

Novel technologies, fabrication methods, controllers and computational methods are rapidly
advancing the capabilities of soft robotics. This is creating the need for design techniques …

The recent shift to wellbeing, sustainability, and resilience under Industry 5.0 has prompted
formal discussions that manufacturing should be human-centric–placing the wellbeing of …

The intertwined processes of learning and evolution in complex environmental niches have
resulted in a remarkable diversity of morphological forms. Moreover, many aspects of animal …

Both the design and control of a robot play equally important roles in its task performance.
However, while optimal control is well studied in the machine learning and robotics …

The current dominant paradigm for robotic manipulation involves two separate stages:
manipulator design and control. Because the robot's morphology and how it can be …

Physical products are often complex assemblies combining a multitude of 3D parts modeled
in computer-aided design (CAD) software. CAD designers build up these assemblies by …

Terrestrial self-reconfigurable robot swarms offer adaptable solutions for various tasks.
However, most existing swarms are limited to controlled indoor settings, and often …

The computational design of soft underwater swimmers is challenging because of the high
degrees of freedom in soft-body modeling. In this paper, we present a differentiable pipeline …

Robots are notoriously difficult to design because of complex interdependencies between
their physical structure, sensory and motor layouts, and behavior. Despite this, almost every …