3 papers
cs.RO2026
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence: Summary Report
Victoria A. Webster-Wood, Nicholas Gravish, Amir Alavi +37
This report provides a summary of the outcomes of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence held in 2024. Mechanical Intelligence (MI) represents the phenomenon tha…
cs.RO2025
Multilaminate piezoelectric PVDF actuators to enhance performance of soft micro robots
Nicholas Gunter, Heiko Kabutz, Kaushik Jayaram
Multilayer piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) actuators are a promising approach to enhance performance of soft microrobotic systems. In this work, we develop and charact…
cs.RO2025
Design of a bioinspired robophysical antenna for insect-scale tactile perception and navigation
Parker McDonnell, Lingsheng Meng, Hari Krishna Hariprasad +5
The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) uses its soft antennae to guide decision making by extracting rich tactile information from tens of thousands of distributed mechanos…