Publications, awards and stories from the RoboPhysics Laboratory.
On Friday 25 September the lab brings its work out of the department and into Piazza Umberto I: fiber muscles you can watch contract, and a gripper that picks things up with a charge of electricity. For all ages, until late.
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Dr. Masahiro Nakade, First Secretary and Science & Technology Attaché at the Embassy of Japan in Italy, came to see the laboratory: a tour of the research lines, and a conversation about what the Italian and Japanese research ecosystems can build together.
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The whole lab left the benches behind for two days on the Lao river, in the Pollino National Park: working sessions under the trees, rafting, and time to decide together where the lab is heading.
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The lab's student team takes first place at the international IEEE RoboSoft soft-robotics competition in Japan, with a manipulation system based on the lab's technologies.
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With the MIT Media Lab we present a new class of fiber-format artificial muscles: electric, silent and free of external pumps, with power density comparable to skeletal muscle.
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The European Research Council funds €1.5 million of research on soft and wearable robotics driven by electro-active fluids: thermoregulating garments, haptic gloves and low-cost robotic hands.
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