Soft Robotics

The winning robot of the MassRobotics Form & Function Challenge was Northeastern University’s Soft Robotic Arm Screwdriver.

The joint research team from MIT and Notre Dame created the Soft Pathfinding Robotic Observation Unit, or SPROUT.

WPI said soft robotic arms tend to be weaker, more shaky, and less precise than traditional robot arms made from rigid materials.

1X said it shares an outlook with the team at Kind Humanoid, which has applied LLMs to safe general-purpose robots.

The researchers said this technology could make it easier for doctors to detect diseases like breast cancer when they’re more treatable.

Soft Robotics divested its robotic gripper business to Schmalz for an undisclosed amount. A new spinoff, Oxipital AI, will focus on 3D vision and AI for inspection and robotic picking.

Learn how low-cost soft actuators enabled researchers to build a worm-like crawling robot.

3D printing enables novel, lightweight structures for robotics, as well as new ways to use robots in manufacturing, says Replique.

RoboGrocery uses soft robotics, sensors, and algorithms to handle a stream of unpredictable objects on a conveyor belt, said MIT CSAIL.

Ubiros has developed grippers with force-sensing capabilities to bring automation to more picking tasks, explains President Onder Ondemir.

Project CETI is using robotics, machine learning, biology, linguistics, natural language processing, and more to decode whale communications. 

TRI’s Punyo humanoid robot can manipulate objects with its whole body, giving it more flexibility when it comes to household tasks.

The USC team built a 3D structure of electrodes that converts stretch and release to a process of folding and unfolding.

Soft Robotics applies NVIDIA Isaac Sim’s synthetic data to food processing automation in efforts to improve safety and increase production.

This special video podcast episode features an American Sign Language translated edition of The Robot Report Podcast episode 98, an interview with Tatum Robotics founder Samantha Johnson.

Soft Robotics brought in $26 million in the first closing of its Series C funding round to expand commercial deployment of its mGripAI.

Researchers at Harvard have created a tentacle-like gripper that can grasp irregularly shaped or soft objects without damaging them. 

The CSAIL team hopes their technology can be used to create wearable devices that provide feedback on how the user is moving. 

CSAIL’s Perceptual Science Group created touch sensors for their gripper, allowing it to feel with the same sensitivity as human skin. 

The researchers are hoping to create robots made from many individual units that act individually but cooperatively. 

The robots could be used in swarms to pollinate a field of crops, or to search for survivors in disaster areas.

The key to the team’s actuator’s quick movements is in its bi-stable design, and the shape it prefers depends on the temperature.