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soft robotics

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Soft robotics is a research field investigating the design, fabrication, modeling, and control of robots constructed primarily from compliant, deformable materials rather than rigid links and joints. This approach explores systems leveraging inherent material flexibility and adaptability for safe interaction with complex, unstructured, and dynamic environments, enabling capabilities distinct from traditional rigid robotics.

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MS

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

RJ

Harvard University

DR

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PD

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

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Harvard University

Cambridge, United States

Pittsburgh, United States

Stanford University

Stanford, United States