Soft Robotics

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21 papers in the last four weeks, up 133% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

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  1. Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a Robotic Soft Esophagus

    Aug 10, 2026Dipankar Bhattacharya, Ryman Hashem, Leo K. Cheng +1Nonlinear MPCSoft Robotics

  2. SoRoMoX: Fast, Differentiable, and Parallelizable Soft Robot Models

    Aug 6, 2026Maximilian Stölzle, Solange Gribonval, Daniel Feliu-Talegon +9Differentiable PhysicsContinuum Robot Control

  3. Human Centric Embodied Intelligence for Soft Wearable Robotics

    Aug 4, 2026Rainier Natividad, Raye Chen-Hua YeowAssistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  4. From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching

    Aug 1, 2026Nicola Visentin, Maximilian Stölzle, Mariano Ramírez Montero +3Reservoir ComputingSoft Robotics

  5. A Monolithic Hand with Asymmetric Origami Bending and Dual-chamber Actuators

    Jul 24, 2026Nan Huang, Yuming Zhu, Zicong Zhang +5Robotic Hand DesignRobotic Grasping

  6. Eversion-based robots can enable safe access,steering and endoscopic imaging within the spinal subarachnoid space

    Jul 21, 2026Zicong Wu, Panagiotis Kalozoumis, S. M. Hadi Sadati +8Robot NavigationRobotic Insertion

  7. Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Based on the Drawstring Principle

    Jul 21, 2026Chendong Liu, Dapeng Yang, Yiming Dai +2Soft Robotics

  8. Continuously Stable Structure through Plastic Deformation

    Jul 17, 2026Junlong Xiao, Yaoqiang Pan, Xuan Zhang +2Robotic Hand DesignRobotic Grasping

  9. A Model-Based Decoupling Strategy for Proprioception and Contact Sensing in an Architected Soft Manipulator

    Jul 17, 2026Francesco Stella, Annan Zhang, Cosimo Della Santina +2Tactile Sensing for Robotic ManipulationSoft Robotics

  10. Hybrid Rigid-Soft Robotic Gripper with Shape Adaptation, Uniform Force Distribution, and Self-Locking Capabilities

    Jul 16, 2026Xi Chen, Yun Wang, Lichao Yang +2Robotic Hand DesignRobotic Grasping

  11. Soft Eversion Robots for Colonoscopy: Challenges, Open Problems, and Emerging Solutions

    Jul 11, 2026Cem Suulker, Thomas Mack, Qingzheng Cong +4Soft RoboticsSurgical Robotics

  12. Soft Robotic Exogloves for Dexterous Mobility -- Towards Personalized Rehabilitation

    Jul 8, 2026Paul Dela Cruz, Mostafa Mo. Massoud, Jacqueline LibbyRobotic Hand DesignAssistive Robotics

  13. Towards Soft Robotic Exogloves for Musculoskeletal Manipulation to Reduce Pain and Spasticity

    Jul 8, 2026Antonia Salluce, Maeryn Erdheim, Gailen Davis +3Assistive RoboticsSoft Robotics

  14. Continuous and large-scale: ELEANOR, the soft architected arm inspired by the elephant trunk

    Jul 8, 2026Giovanna A. Naselli, Anderson B. Nardin, Seonggun Joe +6Robotic GraspingRobotics

  15. A Continual Learning Framework for Adaptive Control of Modular Soft Robots

    Jul 7, 2026Nilay Kushawaha, Muhammad Sunny Nazeer, Baljinder Singh Bal +2Continual Robot LearningContinuum Robot Control

  16. Efficient Transfer Learning of Robot Dynamic Models Using Morphological Similarity

    Jul 6, 2026Pavlo Kupyn, Yuya Hamamatsu, Roza Gkliva +2Robot Dynamics IdentificationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

  17. U-Joint CAAMS: Experimental Evaluation of a Universal-Joint Continuum Manipulator for Aerial Manipulation

    Jul 3, 2026Anuraj Uthayasooriyan, Musab Alibrahim, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti +2Aerial RoboticsSoft Robotics

  18. The Quadruped Soft Tail: Compliant Grasping and Swabbing for Contamination Surveys in Harsh Environments

    Jun 29, 2026Harald Minde Hansen, Nandita Gallacher, Kristin Y. Pettersen +2Legged RoboticsRobotics

  19. Real-Time Compliance and Position Control of a Hyper-redundant Soft Robotic Arm

    Jun 29, 2026Runze Zuo, Tianhua Zou, Naike Wu +2Robotic ControlImpedance Control

  20. Deep Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Event-Triggered Data-Driven Predictive Control for a 3D Cable-Driven Soft Robotic Arm

    Jun 24, 2026Cheng Ouyang, Moeen Ul Islam, Kaixiang Zhang +3RL ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

  21. Morphology-Specific Closed-Loop Control of Logarithmic-Spiral Continuum Arms via Online Jacobian Error Compensation

    Jun 24, 2026Partha Datta, Yi Jin, Wei Lin +1Robotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

  22. PanoVine: Whole-Body Visuomotor Control for Soft Growing Vine Robot

    Jun 22, 2026Yimeng Qin, Xiaomeng Xu, William Heap +3Robot NavigationVisuomotor Policy Learning

  23. THREAD: Trajectory Planning for Hybrid Rigid-Soft Manipulators with Environment-Aware Diffusion

    Jun 19, 2026Shivani Kamtikar, Pranav Asthana, Naveen Kumar Uppalapati +2Constrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

  24. A Novel Bio-Inspired Fish Robot with Tunable Stiffness via Particle Jamming

    Jun 19, 2026Jack Stonecipher, Allen Gao, Wei WangRoboticsUnderwater Robotics