Awards, Press, and Buzz about FlowIO
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Gold Medal at ACM CHI 2021 Graduate Student Research Competition
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Silver A'Design Award for Scientific Instruments and Research Equipment Design
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1st Place Winner at IROS 2020 Workshop on Application-Oriented Modelling and Control of Soft Robots
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Helpful Resources
Review Articles:
Review Article by George Whitesides
Lectures:
Websites:
Journals:
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Other:
Design, Fabricaton, and Control of Soft Robots
Design, Fabrication, and Control of Origami Robots
Design Optimization of Soft Robots
Pressure Actuated
Radial Expansion: Modular Cubes, Bubble, Self Sleeve, SPA Skin,
Axial Expansion: Fiber-Reinforced Actuator, Extending McKibben Muscle,
Axial Contraction: Contracting McKibben Muscle,
Twisting: Fiber-Reinforced Actuator
Bending: PneuNets, Fiber-Reinforced Actuator
Gripping: SoftRobotics, Other,
Growing: Vine Robots,
Locomotion: Rolling, Walking, Crawli, FRCMR, Millipede, Tube Climbing (paper)
Complex Movement: Honeycomb PneuNet, Stewart Platform,
Semi-Soft Robots
Arthrobots: paper, video, supplementary material,
Depressurization Actuated (Stored Elastic Energy)
Rapid Action Prestressed Soft Actuators (Video)
A Flytrap-inspired Soft Manipulator Driven by Single Airbag
Vacuum Actuated
Buckling: Rotation, Gripping, Linear Motion,
Complex Movement and Locomotion: V-SPA,
Surface Display: Soft Reconfigurable Surface,
Particle Jamming:
FlexShapeGripper, DIY Gripper, Jamming User Interfaces,
Layer Jamming:
JamSheets (paper)
Laminar Jamming, (paper1, paper2) :
Hybrid Gripper
HASELs
Toolkit
Principle of Operation
Materials
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Consumables
Silicone Rubber Platinum Cure
Ecoflex 00-50
Dragon Skin 10 NV
Material Datasheets
Material Comparison Tool
Durometer Shore Hardness Scale
Viscosity Scale
Slo-Jo
Sil-Poxy
Isopropyl Alcohol
Silicone Tube
1mm ID x 2mm OD
1.5mm ID x 2.5mm OD
Gloves
Wipes
Scrap Paper
Silk Screen Printing Mesh
12mm Straws
10mm Straws
Long Balloons