Soft robotics technology has been rapidly expanding in recent years due to its advantages in
flexibility and safety for human operators. Within this trend, soft grippers enable more …

Computational design is a critical tool to realize the full potential of Soft Robotics,
maximizing their inherent benefits of high performance, flexibility, robustness, and safe …

Locomotive soft robots (SoRos) have gained prominence due to their adaptability.
Traditional locomotive SoRo design is based on limb structures inspired by biological …

Demands for pneumatic-driven soft robots are constantly rising for various applications.
However, they are often designed manually due to the lack of systematic methods …

Topology optimization is a powerful design tool in structural engineering and other
engineering problems. The design domain is discretized into elements, and a finite element …

This paper introduces``TOPress3D," a 3D topology optimization MATLAB code for structures
subjected to design-dependent pressure loads. With a primary focus on pedagogical …

Soft grasping has become the accepted standard to grasp geometrically complex and
deformable objects; however, the in the absence of efficient design tools,'universal'designs …

Soft robotics has emerged as the standard solution for grasping deformable objects, and has
proven invaluable for mobile robotic exploration in extreme environments. However, despite …

Soft grippers are increasingly favored due to their passive compliance, lack of need for
precise force control, and high adaptability to various object shapes. Unlike previous soft …

Computational design can excite the full potential of soft robotics, but it has the drawback of
being highly nonlinear in terms of material, structure, and contact. To date, enthusiastic …