Mass personalization is becoming a reality. It requires responsive and flexible
manufacturing operations for producing individualized products in dynamic batch sizes at …

Novel technologies, fabrication methods, controllers and computational methods are rapidly
advancing the capabilities of soft robotics. This is creating the need for design techniques …

The recent shift to wellbeing, sustainability, and resilience under Industry 5.0 has prompted
formal discussions that manufacturing should be human-centric–placing the wellbeing of …

The intertwined processes of learning and evolution in complex environmental niches have
resulted in a remarkable diversity of morphological forms. Moreover, many aspects of animal …

Both the design and control of a robot play equally important roles in its task performance.
However, while optimal control is well studied in the machine learning and robotics …

Physical products are often complex assemblies combining a multitude of 3D parts modeled
in computer-aided design (CAD) software. CAD designers build up these assemblies by …

The current dominant paradigm for robotic manipulation involves two separate stages:
manipulator design and control. Because the robot's morphology and how it can be …

The computational design of soft underwater swimmers is challenging because of the high
degrees of freedom in soft-body modeling. In this paper, we present a differentiable pipeline …

Legged robots are designed to perform highly dynamic motions. However, it remains
challenging for users to retarget expressive motions onto these complex systems. In this …

Parallel-elastic joints can improve the efficiency and strength of robots by assisting the
actuators with additional torques. For these benefits to be realized, a spring needs to be …