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3D Printable Soft Liquid Metal Sensors for Delicate Manipulation Tasks
Lois Liow, Jonty Milford, Emre Uygun +4
Robotics and automation are key enablers to increase throughput in ongoing conservation efforts across various threatened ecosystems. Cataloguing, digitisation, husbandry, and simi…
DexGrip: Multi-modal Soft Gripper with Dexterous Grasping and In-hand Manipulation Capacity
Xing Wang, Liam Horrigan, Josh Pinskier +6
The ability of robotic grippers to not only grasp but also re-position and re-orient objects in-hand is crucial for achieving versatile, general-purpose manipulation. While recent…
PINN-Ray: A Physics-Informed Neural Network to Model Soft Robotic Fin Ray Fingers
Xing Wang, Joel Janek Dabrowski, Josh Pinskier +4
Modelling complex deformation for soft robotics provides a guideline to understand their behaviour, leading to safe interaction with the environment. However, building a surrogate…
A 'MAP' to find high-performing soft robot designs: Traversing complex design spaces using MAP-elites and Topology Optimization
Yue Xie, Josh Pinskier, Lois Liow +2
Soft robotics has emerged as the standard solution for grasping deformable objects, and has proven invaluable for mobile robotic exploration in extreme environments. However, despi…