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

“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 ! Cosimo Della Santina @edomil

new paper out! 🤖

congrats to our Benjamin Gorissen @edomil KU Leuven and all co-authors from Cornell BME Harvard SEAS Intelligent Systems UVM Cambridge University and more!

Join us at "How to Make Better Soft Robots through Design Optimization" a full-day virtual workshop for RoboSoft22. Organizers: Benjamin Gorissen, Atoosa Parsa, sreekalyan, R. Baines. Panel: Josh Bongard, Yiğit Mengüç, K. Bertoldi, and R. Kramer-Bottiglio. designopt4softrobots.com/home

Throwback to last week’s RoboSoft22 conference. We had an absolutely amazing time with Benjamin Gorissen @edomil, Bert Van Raemdonck and David Mélançon. #robosoft22

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 Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 !! #ERCStG

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.

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

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: Cosimo Della Santina, @edomil, David Melancon

Tomorrow IEEERoboSoft , Elias De Smet will present a poster on our bioinspired jumping soft robot. Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖

Come join our lab!

#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 Sam Peerlinck @edomil Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

#NewPaper Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 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 Harvard SEAS KU Leuven Read more! 📖 ow.ly/fthL50OkyIg

Through my European Research Council (ERC) starting grant (ILUMIS), the Soft Robotics Group - KU Leuven 🐙 🤖 group is looking for a PhD student to transform the field of soft robotics by harnessing nonlinearities in a fluidic network. Interested? apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

#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: doi.org/10.1002/admt.2… With support of FWO and European Research Council (ERC)

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: robosoft2025.org

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!