SDU Soft Robotics

SDU Center for Soft Robotics 🇩🇰 @SDUBiorobotics @SDUengineering @SyddanskUni
PIs: @rafsanjani84, @joergensenjonas, @SaravanaBioRob

[CTO ROBOTICS Media @ctorobotics]

Engineers: “This is a breakthrough in soft robotics.”

Twitter: “Bro built an AI vibrator.” 🤦‍♂️

Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark created a soft robot that moves by inflating and contracting its body like a worm.

Jokes aside… robots like this could actually be useful for rescue missions and environments where traditional robots fail.

But let’s be honest: you already know what most comment sections are going to talk about 💀

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[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

Our latest paper "Tactile perception through fluid–solid interaction" is published @NatureComms

🔗 https://t.co/CLmgM1klE2

@arman_goshtasbi @BerghuisMinke @AidaParvaresh @SaravanaBioRob Robert W. Style @rafsanjani84

@SDUSoftRobotics @SDUBiorobotics @SyddanskUni
@DFF_raad

[SDU Biorobotics @SDUBiorobotics]

@SDUBiorobotics invites highly motivated applicants for one or more 4-year #TenureTrack assistant professor positions to strengthen and expand our activities in Soft Robotics and Bioinspired Systems.

🗓️ Deadline for application: February 15, 2026.

https://t.co/1BoAW14UK8

[Cyborg and Bionic Systems Journal @CBS_Journal]

A paper published on Cyborg and Bionic Systems presented a soft robot capable of navigating complex terrains using a combination of rectilinear motion and asymmetric steering gaits. Know more: https://t.co/nFjAZEKyvK.

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

Our paper "Inflatable Kirigami Crawlers✂️" is featured on the front cover of Advanced Robotics Research @AdvPortfolio

🔗 https://t.co/YGtVHHsjVU

@burcussey @AidaParvaresh Bahman Tahrekhani @rafsanjani84

[Ahmad Rafsanjani @rafsanjani84]

Thrilled to receive an ERC Consolidator Grant #ERCCoG from @ERC_Research for my project #METABOA: Exploring the Unexplored with a Crawling Soft Robot.
@SyddanskUni @SDUSoftRobotics

Stay tuned for upcoming open positions and reach out if you’re ready to slither into the future!🐍

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

📢 #SoftTalk seminar @SyddanskUni by Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio @Yale
📅 Oct 24, 2025 | 🕚 11:00 AM
📍 Odense, TEK Ellehammer Ø28-600-3
🎙️Robots that adapt to changing tasks & environments

#SoftRobotics #Shapemorphing

[Advanced Intelligent Systems @Advintellsyst]

#AdvRobRes Inflatable Kirigami Crawlers (Ahmad Rafsanjani and co-workers) 🔓 https://t.co/HVaLZPzMk5

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

Our paper Inflatable Kirigami Crawlers is out in Advanced Robotics Research @AdvPortfolio!

🔗 https://t.co/IBgGcWmUh2

Inflatable textile bots with cuts fold into scale-like shapes that crawl with style✂️💨

@burcussey @AidaParvaresh B. Taherkhani @rafsanjani84
🙏 @VILLUMFONDEN

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

🎓 Huge Congratulations to Dr. Burcu Seyidoğlu @burcussey on successfully defending her PhD thesis: “Snake-Inspired Soft Robots for Rectilinear Locomotion” 🐍🤖🎉@SyddanskUni

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

Read our recent OA paper "Multimodal Limbless Crawling Soft Robot with a Kirigami Skin," in Cyborg and Bionic Systems 🪱

@JA_Tirado_R @AidaParvaresh @burcussey @vectoriseart @JoergensenJonas @rafsanjani84

🙏@VILLUMFONDEN

🔗 https://t.co/3bIyjGBrCC
📽️ https://t.co/B9DV4OCs7s

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

📢 PhD Defense Alert!
Burcu Seyidoğlu @burcussey will defend her thesis “Snake-Inspired Soft Robots for Rectilinear Locomotion” 🐍🤖
📅 June 13, 2025 | 🕙 10:00 AM
📍 Ellehammer Room, Building 42, 2nd Floor, @SyddanskUni @SDUSoftRobotics

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

🎙️ #SoftTalk organized by @SDUSoftRobotics
May 14, 2PM | @SyddanskUni in Odense
Prof. Louis-Philippe Demers from @VCUQatar on "Kinesthetic Immersion & Engagement with Machines 🤖"

#SoftRobotics #RoboticArt #HRI #Embodiment #SDU #VCUartsQatar

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

Team @SDUSoftRobotics attended @IEEERoboSoft in the beautiful Lausanne🇨🇭

[Science Robotics @SciRobotics]

In a new Science #Robotics Focus article, @nana_obayashi and colleagues propose a research model that would blend long-term “slow science” and short-term “fast science” to promote progress in soft robotics. https://t.co/5egVfw8nqK

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

Congratulations 🎊 to Dr. Jonathan Tirado 🇪🇨 for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Multigait limbless soft robotic locomotion”.

Evaluation committee: Prof. Cheng Fang (Chair), Prof. Cecilia Laschi, and Prof. Marcello Calisti

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

@JA_Tirado_R will defend his PhD thesis, “Multigait Limbless Soft Robotic Locomotion 🪱”, on Monday, February 11, 2025, at 9:30 AM @syddansk_universitet

📍Location: SDU TEK Building, Ellehammer Seminar Room

Best of luck, Jonathan!💪🔥

[SDU Soft Robotics @SDUSoftRobotics]

@JA_Tirado_R will defend his PhD thesis, “Multigait Limbless Soft Robotic Locomotion 🪱”, on Monday, February 11, 2025, at 9:30 AM @syddansk_universitet

📍Location: SDU TEK Building, Ellehammer Seminar Room

Best of luck, Jonathan!💪🔥

[Ahmad Rafsanjani @rafsanjani84]

I am thrilled and grateful to @lundbeckfonden for receiving a 2024 Experiment grant to develop deployable Kirigami electrodes for minimally-invasive electrocorticography 🧠

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