Videos

This video presents a vine robot with material-level responsiveness, capable of steering towards light of heat stimulus. The paper is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07362

This video is from: Jumping on Air: Design and Modeling of Latch-mediated, Spring-actuated Air-jumpers. It was presented at IROS 2022. The paper is presented here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9981655

This paper presents SPHR: A Soft Pneumatic Hybrid Robot with extreme shape changing and lifting abilities. It was presented at IROS 2021. The paper is available here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9636076

This video presents a set of untethered soft cellular robot with variable volume, friction, and unit-to-unit cohesion. It was presented at ICRA 2020. The paper is available here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9341351

This video presents a soft retraction device and internal camera mount for vine robots. It was presented at IROS in 2021. The paper is available here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9636697

This video presents the workings of a miniature capstan winch for mobile robots, with demonstrations on a jumping robot and pulling an RC car out of a ditch. This work was presented at IROS in 2022. The paper is available here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9834065

"Leveraging compliance and anisotropy to address robotic challenges" May 22, 2023.

This video summarizes how tip-extension, air fluidization, and asymmetry are used to create a soft burrowing robot. This work was published in the June 2021 issue of Science Robotics (https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/6/55), and is also available for free at https://www.hawkeslab.com/publications.

Video demonstration of a simple, low-hysteresis, foldable, fabric pneumatic artificial muscle. This work was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and presented at ICRA 2020. The paper is available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9013028?casa_token=kTWz7FOTgpIAAAAA:qpkh0C6bpl-k0WtJlKmSDHHI2gSJXqWzGioDz56yuPoqf-L5qr5zjeWN-xKyVKHNolfERuRg