Maria Elena Giannaccini

The TacTip Family: Soft Optical Tactile Sensors with 3D-Printed Biomimetic Morphologies

Benjamin Ward-Cherrier, Nicholas Pestell, Luke Cramphorn et al. · Soft Robotics · 2018 · 539 citations · Full text

Tactile Sensing, Soft Tactile Sensing, Haptic Feedback +14

Novel Design of a Soft Lightweight Pneumatic Continuum Robot Arm with Decoupled Variable Stiffness and Positioning

Maria Elena Giannaccini, Chaoqun Xiang, Adham Atyabi et al. · Soft Robotics · 2017 · 153 citations · Full text

Robot Kinematics, Decoupled Variable Stiffness, Engineering +19

A variable compliance, soft gripper

Maria Elena Giannaccini, Ioannis Georgilas, Ian Horsfield et al. · Autonomous Robots · 2013 · 114 citations

Engineering, Soft Robotics, Dexterous Manipulation +6

Study and fabrication of bioinspired Octopus arm mockups tested on a multipurpose platform

Marcello Calisti, Andrea Arienti, Maria Elena Giannaccini et al. · 2010 · 46 citations · Full text

Engineering, Biorobotics, Bio-inspired Design +24

Variable stiffness Mckibben muscles with hydraulic and pneumatic operating modes

Chaoqun Xiang, Maria Elena Giannaccini, Theo Theodoridis et al. · Advanced Robotics · 2016 · 43 citations · Full text

Muscle Function, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +21