Soft Robotics Group

At the Soft Robotics Lab, we investigate soft robotics technologies, from materials to sensors and actuators, we study the way soft robots are modelled and controlled, and we engineer novel robotic solutions that are more adaptive, intelligent, resilient, and energetically efficient.

Soft robotics is an interdisciplinary field in robotics, investigating how to build robots with soft materials and deformable and structures. Imagining soft and deformable robots means breaking conventions and transforming the traditional idea of robots and their functionality. Soft robotics is not just a new direction of technological development, but a novel approach to robotics, unhinging its fundamentals, with the potential to produce a new generation of robots, in the support of humans in our natural environments.