1/5 In my career at both @nature and Science, Space & Robots I’ve created/directed approx 700 magazine covers - a joy each week. But now a first: someone methodically redesigning them! High school senior Woojoo Kim sent me these out of the blue. With permission, sharing her work in this thread.

Teknowlogy Festival was a blast! It was great to bring our soft gripper and soft walker out there in the real world 🐙🤖teknowlogy.nl #TEK21 AMOLF

What does navigation of transcriptional, physiological, anatomical, and behavioral spaces have in common? Some thoughts about intelligence, official version: mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/6…

Hope to see some of you at my talk about the mechanics of soft Total Artificial Hearts and how to control them without electronics

"Sorry, but we will mention you in the Acknowledgments"

Our publication on reprogrammable sequencing in #softrobots using ketchup-bottle-cap-like valves is online! doi.org/10.1016/j.matt… youtu.be/wHYL4cFTAY0 Cell Press AMOLF Soft Robotic Matter @TUeindhoven Soft Robotic Matter HybridHeartEu Heinz US

Het ventiel van een ketchupfles maakt de bewegingen van een zachte robot mogelijk deingenieur.nl/artikel/zachte…

Happy to share a new preprint from our group: "Arcsine Laws of Light" I'll tell you more about these amazing laws obeyed by light (and any other form of coherent radiation) in a 🧵 below 😀 arxiv.org/abs/2208.07432

So happy that this paper won the ignobel. Luck > Talent (success is random). This, together with the Matthew effect, should kill the way we nowadays distribute funding in science. worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0…

Inspired by nature, chemists and physicists teamed up to develop a process to produce highly regular microstructures. Published in PNASNews #functionalmaterials amolf.nl/news/regular-p…

Zaterdag 1 oktober geeft Bas Overvelde de publiekslezing 'Van sputterende ketchupfles tot zachte robot'. Kom luisteren en ontmoet onze zachte robots. Start 14.00 en 15.00 uur. Volledig programma Open Dag: opendagamsterdamsciencepark.nl/amolf/ #wvdw22

Congratulations to our new Doctor Luuk van Laake! 🎉🐙 luuk van laake 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: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Luuk van Laake heeft een bijdrage geleverd aan het ontwikkelen van een toekomstig kunsthart op basis van zachte robotica. Zijn vinding is een zachte klep waarmee het bloed rondgepompt wordt zonder gebruik van elektronica. ow.ly/kBlx50PWmaK

Luuk van Laake has contributed to the development of a future artificial heart based on soft robotics. His innovation is the use of a soft valve that pumps blood through the body without the use of electronics. ow.ly/I0hR50PWmgV

Last week I defended my PhD thesis ‘a heartbeat for soft robots’ at Eindhoven University of Technology. I did the research at AMOLF (Amsterdam) in the Soft Robotic Matter group led by Bas Overvelde. #SoftRobotics #PhD #EnbodiedIntelligence

Our perspective "Bio-inspired autonomy in soft robots" has just been published with Springer Nature in Nature Communications Materials. Open access: rdcu.be/dUwT9 Organ(ism)s 🦠🐇🌿🫀interact with their environment, so should robots🤖! Bas Overvelde AMOLF