Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖

We are the Soft Robotics Group of @KU_Leuven

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

In one month we are hosting students from the ATHENS university network, and submerge them in an intensive short-duration course, to become soft robotic experts in one week. To kickstart their soft robotic journey, we send them a DIY soft robotic package at home! Exciting times!

[IEEERoboSoft @IEEERoboSoft]

IEEE RoboSoft 2025 call for papers and workshops!

Deadlines (all 9am PST)
- Paper: Oct 15
- Ext. Abstract: Jan 15
- 2025 Rising stars oral spotlight: Jan 15
- Workshop: Nov 1
Paper transfers possible from journals: RA-L, T-MRB, T-RO and RA-M

More info: https://t.co/m6gdeAD1Zv

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

#NewPaper We developed a fully soft small intestinal simulator, where peristalsis is instigated via radially contracting soft actuators, to be used in surgical training.
paper: https://t.co/ePleCJbJEv
With support of @FWOVlaanderen and @ERC_Research

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

Through my @ERC_Research starting grant (ILUMIS), the @robotics_soft group is looking for a PhD student to transform the field of soft robotics by harnessing nonlinearities in a fluidic network. Interested? apply here: https://t.co/P6c4bvx5KL

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

#NewPaper @robotics_soft
In this paper we solve the inverse problem in soft robots: where to place patch constraints on a balloon to reach a certain goal deformation. In collaboration with @TheFaboratory @hseas @KU_Leuven
Read more! 📖 https://t.co/CpPLhhr1Pw

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

#NewPaper
I took us a long time to find the right metrics to benchmark artificial cilia against their natural counterparts. Main conclusion: we are not there yet! (but in some aspects we are getting close) Thanks to @SamPeerlinck @edomil @robotics_soft

https://t.co/30EedMdKpx

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

Come join our lab!

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

Just a few more days until we close the job openings for 2 PhD students in the field of soft robotics @robotics_soft @KU_Leuven!

https://t.co/rrmokhwKgK

https://t.co/oAFUcMmtA7

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

Tomorrow @IEEERoboSoft , Elias De Smet will present a poster on our bioinspired jumping soft robot. @robotics_soft

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

Within the Athens program, 22 students became soft robotic experts, mastering manufacturing, control, design and cutting tethers. And this only in one week. Very thankful for the experts that came @KU_Leuven and shared their vision: @CosimoDella, @edomil, @_DavidMelancon_

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

The lab is expanding! We are looking for 2 PhD to transform the field of soft robotics. Lots of cool research up ahead!

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

In the framework of my @ERC_Research starting grant (ILUMIS), I am looking for 2 PhDs. Both will be transforming the field of soft robotics by harnessing nonlinearities in a fluidic network, one focusing on interconnections, the other on fluids.
Interested? See links bellow

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

Did you know that soft robots make excellent xmas tree decorations? The soft robotics research group of @KU_Leuven wishes you all a merry everything and a happy always.

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

Very excited and grateful that I was awarded an ERC starting grant with project ILUMIS on Interactive Fluidic State Machines for Soft Robotics. The next 5 years are going to be interesting @KU_Leuven in my group @robotics_soft !!

#ERCStG

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

Throwback to last week’s @robosoft22 conference. We had an absolutely amazing time with @BenjaminGoriss1 @edomil, Bert Van Raemdonck and David Mélançon. #robosoft22

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

@robosoft22 has officially started. Ready for a great week in Edinburgh. #robosoft2022

[TheFaboratory @TheFaboratory]

Join us at "How to Make Better Soft Robots through Design Optimization" a full-day virtual workshop for @robosoft22. Organizers: @BenjaminGoriss1, @ParsaAtoosa, @kalyansrip, R. Baines. Panel: @DoctorJosh, @MengucRobot, K. Bertoldi, and R. Kramer-Bottiglio.
https://t.co/LodQjjux4T

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

congrats to our @BenjaminGoriss1 @edomil @KU_Leuven and all co-authors from @CornellBME @hseas @MPI_IS @vermontUNI @Cambridge_Uni and more!

[Benjamin Gorissen @BenjaminGoriss1]

New paper out in today discussing the concept of embodied energy in robotics. We're hoping this perspective piece stirs up meaningful discussion and leads to a paradigm shift in how we design robots for autonomy. https://t.co/5GWLODQvoZ
@edomil @Nature

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

new paper out! 🤖

[Frontiers in Robotics and AI @FrontRoboticsAI]

New Research: Morphological Control of Cilia-Inspired Asymmetric Movements Using Nonlinear Soft Inflatable Actuators: Soft robotic systems typically follow conventional control schemes, where actuators are supplied with dedicated inputs… https://t.co/UesZrs1jEZ #Robotics #AI

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

“Model-based control can improve the performance of artificial cilia”. Don’t miss the poster session later today at 4:30pm (Eastern Time) at #robosoft2021 ! @CosimoDella @edomil

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

We built an array of artificial cilia that mimics the individual and collective nonreciprocal motions of biological cilia using miniaturized soft inflatable actuators.

[Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 @robotics_soft]

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[Helge Wurdemann @H_Wurdemann]

I have a soft robotics joke, but it's too hard to understand.