Softer is Harder: What Differentiates Soft Robotics from Hard Robotics?

Nowadays Trends in Robotics and Automation in Construction Industry: Transition from Hard to Soft Robotics

The actual research trends in robotics and automation in construction industry (RAC) are much different in comparison with the last decade. While during the 90s the R&D activities were focused in the development of new robotic systems (most of them teleoperated) and in existing machinery automation, the actual efforts are concentrated more in the software integration, sensory data acquisition a...

Soft robotics for chemists.

In areas from assembly of machines to surgery, and from deactivation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to unmanned flight, robotics is an important and rapidly growing field of science and technology. It is currently dominated by robots having hard body plans—constructions largely of metal structural elements and conventional joints—and actuated by electrical motors, or pneumatic or hydrau...

Cognitive Robotics: What it is and Why it is Important for the Assistive Robotics Community

Today robotics technology is broadening its applications from factory to more general-purpose applications in domestic and public use e.g., rehabilitation, search and rescue, etc. However, if robotics technology is to be successful in such environments, it will need to meet new levels of robustness, physical dexterity and cognitive capability. This paper discusses an emerging field called cogni...

The 2015 Soft Robotics Competition

september 2016 • Ieee rObOtICs & AUtOmAtION mAGAZINe • model checking or other formal verification tools. In the months leading up to the competition, the organizers created an open source infrastructure for generating problem instances and interacting with submitted controllers. This included deciding problem specification formats and parameters of each problem domain that would be varied duri...

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