Formal Resource | The Breathing Wall
I found this article through the EBSCOhost database through a ‘soft robotics’ search. This particular paper was interesting to me because of the focus on creating a sensory experience that focused on touch in particular. Because touch is often neglected in art, the idea of using soft robotics to mimic skin and human movement and behavior was really interesting.
Budak, Ece Polen, Onur Zirhli, Adam A. Stokes, and Ozge Akbulut. “The Breathing Wall (BRALL)—Triggering Life (in)Animate Surfaces.” Leonardo 49, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 162–63. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01199.
Informal Resource | Sonō
Filtering through Google search results, I found the work of Jonas Jørgensen. This project in particular explores the idea of what a soft robot should sound like. The researchers focused on matching the form of the robot ‘creature’ with the sounds it made based on the sound design of movie monsters.
Bering Christiansen, Mads, and Jonas Jørgensen. “Augmenting Soft Robotics with Sound.” In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 133–35. Cambridge United Kingdom: ACM, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378328.