Creative Soft Robotics

After googling for “soft moving sculpture,” I found an exhibit of a large icebag which inflates, deflates, and rotates in a very human-like manner. https://pulitzerarts.org/feature/claes-oldenburg-ice-bag-scale-b-1971/ I also found a kinetic sculpture which uses rigid parts, but gives the illusion of soft movement. I continued searching for soft kinetic sculptures from these two sites, but had
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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
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I began my search by googling some terms like “kinetic sculpture”, “bio inspired”, “soft sculpture”, and “moving art”. I saw an article about a kinetic sculpture to mimic the movement of a sea turtle. Even though it wasn’t a “soft” sculpture, it created life like motion. I scrolled to the bottom of the article and
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fastcompany.com/3046856/have-you-ever-seen-your-reflections-in-500-penguins Daniel Rozin This interaction designer plays with reflections and mirroring and one project that stood out to me is the giant 500 penguin stuffed animals that copy your movement. I am curious to see how this type of interaction can be used in the context of soft robotics. Would it be possible to create
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1. I googled “eflux soft robot” (e-flux is a leading online art publication platform), and one of the first results was this – https://findresearcher.sdu.dk:8443/ws/portalfiles/portal/173378022/PhD_Thesis_Final_Version_Jonas_J_rgensen.pdf “Constructing Soft Robot Aesthetics:Art, Sensation, and Materiality in Practice” PhD thesis, Submitted to the IT University of Copenhagen, May 16 2019 by Jonas Jørgensen I only skimmed through it, seems super relevant.
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Conference Paper: OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the ‘Fabric of Everyday Life’ Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Ali Shtarbanov, Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Jack Forman, Karen Modrei, Seung Hee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Kristina Höök, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2021. OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the ‘Fabric
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Paper Title: Thrust force characterization of free-swimming soft rob Jennifer Frame, Nick Lopez, Oscar Curet, and Erik D. Engeberg. Thrust force characterization of free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 2018. doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aadcb3 Originality. All papers must present original work. This paper appears to present original work. The authors designed and implemented the jellyfish robots. They
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Conference Paper: Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Analysis of a Pressure-Operated Soft Robotic Snake Ming Luo, Mahdi Agheli, and Cagdas D. Onal. Soft Robotics.Jun 2014.136-146. http://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2013.0011 This paper presents a solution to a novel problem problem for soft robotics: the theoretical modeling of motion, which is much more difficult compared to rigid body robotics. A soft
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Conference Paper | A five-way directional soft valve with a case study: a starfish like soft robot This paper describes the process of developing and creating a new soft valve by using new fabrication and actuation methods. The paper demonstrates the capabilities of the new valve by creating a starfish soft robot with independent motion
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Conference Paper | The Helpless Soft Robot – Stimulating Human Collaboration through Robotic Movement This paper focuses on figuring out how to effectively collaborate human and soft robots through signaling and stimulations. Anna Dagmar Bille Milthers, Anne Bjerre Hammer, Jonathan Jung Johansen, Lasse Goul Jensen, Elizabeth Ann Jochum, and Markus Löchtefeld. 2019. The Helpless Soft
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