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  1. Programmable magnetic soft robots with controlled locomotion and directional liquid cargo release

    Jun 19, 2026Youyi Zhou, Zoe Evelyn Gureno, Meghna Majumder +1RoboticsRobot Locomotion

    Bio-integrated Robotics Lab at Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA · Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA · Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA

  2. Shape-programmable Magnetic Soft Membranes for Mechanically Active Microchannels

    Jun 19, 2026Direnc Akyildiz, Fatih Kocabas, Xiangyi Tan +1Soft Robotics

    Bio-integrated Robotics Lab at Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin -Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA · Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE UK · Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA +1

  3. Learning-Based Modeling of Soft Robots via Cosserat Rod Theory

    Jun 18, 2026Mohammad Ali, Nithin Senthur Kumar, Eric J. Barth +1Dynamical SystemsPort-Hamiltonian Systems

    Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA

  4. Belt-Finger: An Affordable Soft Belt-Driven Gripper for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation

    Jun 18, 2026Boya Zhang, Andreas Zell, Georg MartiusRobotic GraspingDexterous Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen, Germany · 2Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany

  5. Shape Sensing of Continuum Robots using Direct Laser Writing

    Jun 17, 2026Amber K. Rothe, Nidhi Malhotra, Jaydev P. DesaiContinuum Robot ControlSoft Robotics

    Medical Robotics and Automation (RoboMed) Laboratory, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

  6. Selective Unit-Cell Actuation in Lattice Structures for Distributed Morphology in Soft Robots

    Jun 17, 2026Trevor Exley, Altair Coutinho, Lucia BeccaiSoft Robotics

    Soft BioRobotics Perception Lab of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova 16163, Italy

  7. Damage Adaptation in Seconds for Architected Materials

    Jun 16, 2026James Avtges, Jake Ketchum, Helena Young +3Adaptive LearningSoft Robotics

    Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

  8. TO-SoFiT: Topology Optimization of Hydraulic Soft Fish Tail Design for programmable undulating locomotion

    Jun 14, 2026A Padmaprabhan, Amal Shaji, Prabhat KumarTopology OptimizationUnderwater Robotics

    Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Telangana, 502285, India

  9. Learning Control as Enabling Layer for Embodied Intelligence Research explored with Soft Robotic Swimming in diverse Flow Speeds

    Jun 9, 2026Fabian Schwab, Federico Allione, Bingcheng Wang +5Robotic ControlRobust Control

    1Engineering Sciences Department, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland · Institute for NeuroInformatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland · Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

  10. Model-based Optimization of Anguilliform Swimming Gaits for Soft Robotic Applications

    Jun 9, 2026Brian Van Stratum, James Gallentine, Caleb Rucker +3Robot LocomotionUnderwater Robotics

    FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, FL 323109 · Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee 37235 · Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996

  11. Reinforcement learning in linear embedding space unlocks generalizable control across soft robot configurations

    Jun 6, 2026Xinglong Zhang, Cong Li, Hangjie Mo +13Robotic ControlRL for Robotics

    College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Deya Road, Changsha, 410003, Hunan, China. · School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Nanyihuan Road, Hefei, 230002,2026 Anhui, China. · State Key NanjingLaboratoryUniversityfor Novel(SuzhouSoftwareCampus),TechnologyTaihuandRoad,the Suzhou,School of215163,ScienceChina.and Technology, 4School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmann Strasse, Munich, 85748, Germany. +5

  12. Compliance-Based Sensor Placement for Force Sensing on a Sensorized Prostate Phantom

    Jun 5, 2026Sizhe Tian, Yinoussa Adagolodjo, Jeremie DequidtTactile SensingSoft Robotics

    CRIStAL, DEFROST · Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, University of Lille, Lille, France. · CRIStAL, Polytech Lille, DEFROST

  13. Three-dimensional hydro-cluttered locomotion by an undulatory robot

    Jun 5, 2026Tianyu Wang, Matthew Fernandez, Galen Tunnicliffe +10Robot LocomotionUnderwater Robotics

    Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. · School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. · George W. WoodruffSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. +3

  14. Gotta Grow Fast: Design and Benchmarking of a Tip Mount for High-Speed Vine Robots

    Jun 4, 2026Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Robert Reeve, Ankush Dhawan +4RoboticsSoft Robotics

    Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA

  15. SoftPINCH: EMG-Driven Soft Exoskeleton Assistance for Finger Flexion and Grasping

    Jun 3, 2026Nicklas Nikolaj Grønvall, Magnus Malthe Sigsgaard Nielsen, Xiaofeng Xiong +1EMG-Based Gesture RecognitionRobotic Grasping

    SDU Soft Robotics, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

  16. Optimal Design and Analytical Modeling of a Soft Fin-Ray Effect Gripper Finger Using the Finite Rigid Elements Method

    Jun 2, 2026Sara Adeli, Hassan SayyaadiRobotic GraspingAgricultural Robotics

    Mechanical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  17. Toward Gripper-Integrated Active Electrosense for Pre-Contact Sensing in Underwater Soft Grippers

    Jun 2, 2026Ahsan Tanveer, Muhammad Hamza, Waqar Hussain Afridi +2Active SensingRobotic Manipulation

    Intelligent Biomimetic Design Lab, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, and with the State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Institute of Ocean Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  18. Improved Postural Stability Using a Lightweight Semi-Active Soft Back Support Device Under Standing Perturbations

    Jun 1, 2026Rohan Khatavkar, Jiefeng Sun, Hyunglae LeeRoboticsAssistive Robotics

    The authors are with the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

  19. A passive universal grasping mechanism based on an everting shell

    May 30, 2026Mythra V. S. Balakuntala, Safvan Palathingal, G. K. AnanthasureshRobotic GraspingSoft Robotics

    Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

  20. Literary Emotions in Motion: A Soft Robotics Installation for Tactile Storytelling

    May 29, 2026Carolina Silva-Plata, Abraham Villavicencio-Carmona, Miguel Silva Plata +2Interactive StorytellingHaptic Feedback

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. · Independent Researcher, Santiago, Chile. · Bolivian Catholic University, La Paz, Bolivia. +1

  21. SoFiE: Soft Finger Exoskeleton for Intelligent Grasping

    May 29, 2026Magnus Malthe Sigsgaard Nielsen, Nicklas Nikolaj Grønvall, Xiaofeng Xiong +1Robotic GraspingTactile Sensing

    SDU Soft Robotics, SDU Biorobotics, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), 5230 Odense M, Denmark

  22. Cuttlebot: a platform demonstration for complex, autonomous, bio-inspired swimmers

    May 29, 2026Alexander Nicholas White, Ang Leo Li, Alexander Yin +5Robot LocomotionUnderwater Robotics

    School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT, U.S.A. · Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · University of Connecticut, Institute of Materials Science; Storrs, CT, U.S.A. +1

  23. Magnet-Based Soft Robotic Skin Using a 3D-Printed Multi-Lattice Structure and CNN-Based Tactile Super-Resolution

    May 27, 2026Yunseong Bang, Joowon Park, Suan Sim +3Tactile SensingRobotic Tactile Sensing

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), 42988 Daegu, Republic of Korea · Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan, 93 Daehak-ro, Nam-gu, 44610 Ulsan, Republic of Korea

  24. A Bioinspired Underwater Robot with a Latch-Mediated Soft Bistable Mechanism

    May 26, 2026Chongze Bi, Wenjie Wu, Zonghao Zuo +1Mechanism DesignUnderwater Robotics

    School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University

  25. HoLoArm: Deformable Arms for Collision-Tolerant Quadrotor Flight

    May 25, 2026Quang Ngoc Pham, Jonas Eschmann, Yang Zhou +3Aerial RoboticsQuadrotor Control

    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, 923-1292 Japan · University of California Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA · New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

  26. Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Robotics: A Motion-Based Review of Actuation Mechanisms and Performance Trade-offs

    May 24, 2026Mohammed AbboodiSoft Robotics

  27. Learning, locomotion, and navigation of soft synthetic snakes in three-dimensional, heterogeneous environments

    May 24, 2026Xiaotian Zhang, Ali Albazroun, Tixian Wang +3RL for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

  28. Analytical and Experimental Force Analysis of a Soft Linear Pneumatic Actuator

    May 21, 2026Mohammed AbboodiSoft Robotics

  29. Modeling and Control of a Pneumatic Morphing Soft Quadrotor based on the SOFA Framework for Dynamic Soft Robotic Simulation

    May 20, 2026F. Labra Caso, V. Sumathy, P. Ferrentino +3Aerial RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Robotics & AI Luleå University of Technology · IMEC Center VUB Brussels University

  30. Fault-Tolerant, Rigidity-Preserving Control of Inflatable Truss Robots

    May 19, 2026James Wade, Isaac Weaver, Mihai Stanciu +1Robot Trajectory TrackingRobust Control

    Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA