Soft robotics, Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory

Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab

Leader - Michael Tolley

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Rubbery robot walks through flames and snow

Published on Sep 5, 2014

Full story: "Rubbery robot battles flames, snow and gets run over"

by Sandrine Ceurstemont
September 5, 2014

It may look like a softy, but this robot is a rugged survivor that can survive fire, ice and getting squashed by a car

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Untethered soft robot

Published on Sep 10, 2014

Engineers at Harvard’s School for Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed the world’s first untethered soft robot – and demonstrated that the quadruped, which can literally stand up and walk away from its designers, can walk through snow, fire and even be run over by a car. The hope is that such robots might one day serve as a search and rescue tool following disasters.

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"Cutting the cord on soft robots
From Harvard engineers, a machine that can walk through flames"

by Peter Reuell
September 10, 2014

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Soft Robot Uses Explosions to Jump

Published on Sep 16, 2014

Harvard researchers have created a soft robot that uses an "explosive actuator" to propel itself. Learn more:
"This Soft Robot Uses Explosions to Jump"

by Evan Ackerman
September 16, 2014

This video is part of the paper "An Untethered Jumping Soft Robot," by Michael T. Tolley, Robert F. Shepherd, Michael Karpelson, Nicholas W. Bartlett, Kevin C. Galloway, Michael Wehner, Rui Nunes, George M. Whitesides, and Robert J. Wood, from Harvard University, presented at IROS 2014 in Chicago.

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3D-printed robot jumps six times its height

Published on Jul 9, 2015

Selecting which of its three pneumatic legs fire, this gizmo can point itself in the direction it wants to go
Full story: "We have lift off! 3D-printed robot jumps six times its height"

by Aviva Rutkin
July 9, 2015

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A 3-D Printed Functionally Graded Soft Robot

Published on Jul 9, 2015

SEAS researchers have built one of the first 3-D printed, soft robots that moves autonomously. The design offers a new solution to an engineering challenge that has plagued soft robotics for years: the integration of rigid and soft materials. This design combines the autonomy and speed of a rigid robot with the adaptability and resiliency of a soft robot and, because of 3-D printing, is relatively cheap and fast.

Article "Hopping towards a better soft robot"
Harvard researchers develop 3-D printed autonomous soft robot

by Leah Burrows
July 9, 2015