5 papers
Tailoring materials into kirigami robots
Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu, Aida Parvaresh, Ahmad Rafsanjani
Kirigami, the traditional paper-cutting craft, holds immense potential for revolutionizing robotics by providing multifunctional, lightweight, and adaptable solutions. Kirigami str…
Multimodal Limbless Crawling Soft Robot with a Kirigami Skin
Jonathan Tirado, Aida Parvaresh, Burcu SeyidoÄlu +3
Limbless creatures can crawl on flat surfaces by deforming their bodies and interacting with asperities on the ground, offering a biological blueprint for designing efficient limbl…
Inflatable Kirigami Crawlers
Burcu SeyidoÄlu, Aida Parvaresh, Bahman Taherkhani +1
Kirigami offers unique opportunities for guided morphing by leveraging the geometry of the cuts. This work presents inflatable kirigami crawlers created by introducing cut patterns…
Proprioceptive Origami Manipulator
Aida Parvaresh, Arman Goshtasbi, Jonathan Andres Tirado Rosero +1
Origami offers a versatile framework for designing morphable structures and soft robots by exploiting the geometry of folds. Tubular origami structures can act as continuum manipul…
Weld n'Cut: Automated fabrication of inflatable fabric actuators
Arman Goshtasbi, Burcu SeyidoÄlu, Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu +3
Lightweight, durable textile-based inflatable soft actuators are widely used in soft robotics, particularly for wearable robots in rehabilitation and in enhancing human performance…