Publications

Peer-reviewed research

Selected publications from the RoboPhysics Laboratory and its principal investigator. Each entry links to the original paper on the publisher's site.

Science Robotics · 2026

Electrofluidic fiber muscles

O. Kilic Afsar, G. Pupillo, G. Vitucci, W. Babatain, H. Ishii, V. Cacucciolo · Science Robotics (2026) — MIT Media Lab · Politecnico di Bari · Co-funded by the European Research Council

A new class of fiber-format artificial muscles integrating charge-injection fiber pumps and McKibben actuators in a closed circuit — electric, silent and untethered, with a power density comparable to skeletal muscle.

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Science · 2023

Fiber pumps for wearable fluidic systems

M. Smith, V. Cacucciolo, H. Shea · Science 379, 1327–1332 (2023) — EPFL

A soft 2 mm tube with helical electrodes embedded in the wall, produced continuously and weavable like a thread — bringing pressurised fluidic circuits directly into garments for thermoregulation, muscle support and haptic feedback.

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Nature · 2019

Stretchable pumps for soft machines

V. Cacucciolo, J. Shintake, Y. Kuwajima, S. Maeda, D. Floreano, H. Shea · Nature 572, 516–519 (2019) — EPFL · Shibaura Institute of Technology

The world's first fully soft, stretchable pump: it converts electricity directly into flow through electrohydrodynamics, with no moving parts — the result that opened the way to fluidic muscles free of external infrastructure.

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