We propose, examine prototypes of, and collect user input on morphing robotic surfaces,"
robot-room" elements that, individually or in combination, change the functionality of the …

With robots becoming closer to humans in recent years, human-friendly robots made of soft
materials provide a new line of research interests. We designed and developed a soft robot …

Robots are typically designed as occupants of rooms, adapting to, and navigating within
them.“Robot surfaces,” an emerging robot typology, are not occupants of but integral with …

Robots for human are required to have safety while working with them. Therefore, we
focused to a pneumatic artificial muscle which has intrinsic flexibility. In this paper, we …

Organisms in nature utilise giant changes in body shape to perform everyday functions such
as locomotion, object manipulation and feeding. These changes are observed across …