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most citedDesign and Control of Modular Soft-Rigid Hybrid Manipulators with Self-Contact

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cs.RO2026

Printed helicoids with embedded air channels make sensorized segments for soft continuum robots

Annan Zhang, Hanna Matusik, Miguel Flores-Acton +3

Soft robots enable safe, adaptive interaction with complex environments but remain difficult to sense and control due to their highly deformable structures. Architected soft materi…

cs.RO2026

Autonomous Sea Turtle Robot for Marine Fieldwork

Zach J. Patterson, Emily Sologuren, Levi Cai +4

Autonomous robots can transform how we observe marine ecosystems, but close-range operation in reefs and other cluttered habitats remains difficult. Vehicles must maneuver safely n…

cs.RO2025

Design of Trimmed Helicoid Soft-Rigid Hybrid Robots

Zach J. Patterson, Emily R. Sologuren, Daniela Rus

As soft robot design matures, researchers have converged to sophisticated design paradigms to enable the development of more suitable platforms. Two such paradigms are soft-rigid h…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Design and Control of Modular Soft-Rigid Hybrid Manipulators with Self-Contact

Zach J. Patterson, Emily Sologuren, Cosimo Della Santina +1

Soft robotics focuses on designing robots with highly deformable materials, allowing them to adapt and operate safely and reliably in unstructured and variable environments. While…

cs.RO2023

Safe Control for Soft-Rigid Robots with Self-Contact using Control Barrier Functions

Zach J. Patterson, Wei Xiao, Emily Sologuren +1

Incorporating both flexible and rigid components in robot designs offers a unique solution to the limitations of traditional rigid robotics by enabling both compliance and strength…