4 papers
Mycoponically Integrated Network Device for Multimodal Sensing with Living Mycelial Networks
Zihan Oliver Zeng, David Marshall Porterfield, Upinder Kaur
Living mycelial filaments integrate chemical, optical, mechanical, thermal, and biological information via electrophysiological cellular trans-membrane potential. The challenge is…
VSL-Skin: Individually Addressable Phase-Change Voxel Skin for Variable-Stiffness and Virtual Joints Bridging Soft and Rigid Robots
Zihan Oliver Zeng, Jiajun An, Preston Luk +1
Soft robots are compliant but often cannot support loads or hold their shape, while rigid robots provide structural strength but are less adaptable. Existing variable-stiffness sys…
Everything-Grasping (EG) Gripper: A Universal Gripper with Synergistic Suction-Grasping Capabilities for Cross-Scale and Cross-State Manipulation
Jianshu Zhou, Jing Shu, Tianle Pan +7
Grasping objects across vastly different sizes and physical states-including both solids and liquids-with a single robotic gripper remains a fundamental challenge in soft robotics.…
MBE-ARI: A Multimodal Dataset Mapping Bi-directional Engagement in Animal-Robot Interaction
Ian Noronha, Advait Prasad Jawaji, Juan Camilo Soto +3
Animal-robot interaction (ARI) remains an unexplored challenge in robotics, as robots struggle to interpret the complex, multimodal communication cues of animals, such as body lang…