Robots are often required to have multimodal and amphibious capabilities for dynamic
environments. Although shape memory alloy (SMA) has been exploited in creating various …

Twisting motion plays an important role in kinematics of soft robots. However, current
twisting actuators usually suffer from complex mechanical design with multiple materials and …

There is a surge of research interest in the field of tensegrity robotics. Robots developed
under this paradigm provide many advantages and have distinguishing features in terms of …

Robotic skins with embedded sensors and actuators are designed to wrap around soft,
passive objects to control those objects from their surface. Prior state estimation and control …

Robotic skins combine actuation and sensing in a 2D, modular soft robot. Robotic skins can
be attached to or wrapped around arbitrary objects to add robotic functionality, and they …

Typical robots are designed to achieve a single function in a controlled environment and
lack the ability to generalize to new tasks. In their quest to build more capable robots …