Soft Robotic Matter

Student-run social account of the Soft Robotic Matter group at @_AMOLF 🐙🤖🦠

[Soft Robotic Matter @softrobotmatter]

Discover how connected but independent units find their way toward the light without communicating! The article published in Advanced Functional Materials explains how cooperation emerges from implicitly shared information.

https://t.co/5YuoY2N7Tm

[Alberto Comoretto @alb_comoretto]

🏆 We won the 1st prize at @IEEERoboSoft competition "Democratization of soft robotics through embodied intelligence." Our soft robot Tubot costs only 3$ and harnesses environmental interactions and light sensing to achieve autonomous phototaxis. Simple robot, complex behaviors!

[Alberto Comoretto @alb_comoretto]

We believe that imitating complex natural phenomena when designing artificial systems offers great opportunities for the democratization of robotic devices. 🦠🤖
@softrobotmatter
@_amolf

[Alberto Comoretto @alb_comoretto]

Discover how interacting with a soft hysteretic valve can shift it from oscillation to pressure regulation!💨
In the Journal of Fluids and Structures, we explain this phenomenon with a coupled model. I co-first authored with @LuukVanLaake🤝🏻
✉️@BasOvervelde
https://t.co/JILfNulTyZ

[Shibo Zou @ShiboZou]

Grateful for the opportunity to work on this amazing project! Fantastic team effort!🐙 @softrobotmatter Try our strategy to turn your soft fluidic actuators into sensors! 💡https://t.co/Pnsp3hXpFS

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Great to see this work published! Congrats to @ShiboZou @softrobotmatter and the rest of the team @_amolf @TUeindhoven @tudelft. For an overview of the work, see this short movie 🤖🦑https://t.co/tcjq7c93Mn

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Today the ⁦⁦@hetklokhuis⁩ team from the Dutch national television came to our ⁦@softrobotmatter⁩ lab to shoot an episode on #softrobots. A great way to inspire the next generation! Stay tuned🤖🐙👩‍🔬👨‍🔧👩‍🏫👨‍⚕️⁦@_amolf⁩

[Alberto Comoretto @alb_comoretto]

I came back from @GordonConf with a Foldscope gifted by @ManuPra18599785. Now I'm drawn to the small world 🦠
@TeamFoldscope

[Alberto Comoretto @alb_comoretto]

GRC Robotics conference was an absolute blast! Surrounded by like-minded people, inspired by many conversations, cheered with drinks and laughs 🐙🤖🤘🏻 AMOLF was well represented by Parisa Omidvar, @SergioPicella, @SumitMohanty91 and I. 💥

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Great to help out @NEMOamsterdam with their workshops and exhibits to bridge science to the future generation of engineers and scientists! The @softrobotmatter helped develop part of an interactive exhibit that looks at how bio-inspiration can lead to innovation 🦑🤖👩‍🔧👨‍🔬 @_amolf

[Soft Robotic Matter @softrobotmatter]

Great opportunities for research positions in our lab! 🐙🤖🫀#softrobotics #artificialhearths #phd #postdoc

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Interested to work in a multidisciplinary consortium on a soft artificial heart? The @softrobotmatter group @_amolf is hiring a PhD-student and Postdoc to continue the work on soft circuits and muscles in the hydraulic domain! https://t.co/6fY5NtciPF👩‍💻🤖
https://t.co/aRNvgucT5P

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Our design student Katrien van Riet is showcasing our soft circuits toolkit as part of the @TUeindhoven drivers for change at the #DutchDesignWeek #ddw23. Find us from 21-29 October at #strijps 🤖🦑 @softrobotmatter @_amolf

[Soft Robotic Matter @softrobotmatter]

Congratulations to our new Doctor Luuk van Laake! 🎉🐙 @LuukVanLaake gave a heartbeat to soft robots. Good luck with your next steps, never stop oscillating, and keep being curious!
If you are interested, here is one chapter of his thesis:
https://t.co/73OlXbl8bP

[Soft Robotic Matter @softrobotmatter]

A crowded lab is a happy lab! 🔧🤖🧪🐙 @_amolf

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Fantastic to have been nominated for the innovation award at the Eindhoven
Makerfaire, with our soft robotics toolkit! https://t.co/aO0FGVc2mw Want to learn more? https://t.co/JtkRvQe66Z

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Excited to be at the Eindhoven Makerfaire with our Soft Fluidic Toolkit. Kids of all ages can experiment, build and interact with our pneumatic circuits to learn about technology and electronics! Play is the best way to learn! ⁦@tue⁩ ⁦@_amolf⁩ ⁦@softrobotmatter⁩

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Ecstatic beyond words to share that our #HollandHybridHeart team has been awarded a mind-blowing 11 million euros to develop a soft robotic heart! ❤️🔬 Grateful for the funding and eager to revolutionize the field of cardiology with this game-changing innovation. 🚀

[Soft Robotic Matter @softrobotmatter]

Fluffy octopi in the @_amolf car! 🐙 @alb_comoretto @ShiboZou and @SergioPicella won the 🥇🥈poster awards at the Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium, bringing home these cute prizes 🤖🦠@UTwente @AliSade83700364

[Soft Robotic Matter @softrobotmatter]

Soft robots will be fun to hang out with! 🐙🤖

[Bas Overvelde @BasOvervelde]

Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium ⁦@UTwente⁩ ⁦@AliSade83700364⁩ was a success! Great interaction in a growing community. For my students it was especially rewarding 🥇🥈😉⁦@softrobotmatter⁩ ⁦@_amolf⁩ ⁦@alb_comoretto⁩ ⁦@ShiboZou