Day 5: (Wed Jan 29, Week 3) Soft Art and Design

Notes for 2025-01-29.

New Assignments

1. New assignment, due Monday 9AM: Exercise: Infusing Art with Technology. Please submit to Exercise 5 Shared Folder.

2. Please also prepare a paper sketch of a small silicone object for which you’ll design an single-sided mold fabricated using layers of 3 mm laser-cut acrylic.

Agenda

1. Review of art and design search (see Exercise 4 Shared Folder).

2. Discussion of next assignment.
   
   

3. Mid-class break.
   
   

4. SolidWorks laser-cut mold design tutorial.

Exercise 4 Bibliography

• 6. Mangion and B. Zhang, “Furl: Soft Pneumatic Pavilion | Interactive Architecture Lab.” Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.interactivearchitecture.org/lab-projects/furl-soft-pneumatic-pavilion

• “Hydro-Active Pillow Structures – materiability.” Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://materiability.com/portfolio/hydro-active-pillow-structures/

• “Footwear Evolves with 3D-Printed Sensors and Biometric Gel Midsoles - Visual Atelier 8.” Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://visualatelier8.com/footwear-evolves-with-3d-printed-sensors-and-biometric-gel-midsoles/

• 11. 25. Choi and H. Ishii, “Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags,” in Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, in TEI ’21. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Feb. 2021, pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1145/3430524.3442457.

• 20. Jansen, “Strandbeests,” Architectural Design, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 22–27, 2008, doi: 10.1002/ad.701.

• 10. Jørgensen and M. B. Christiansen, “The Sounds of Softness. Designing Sound for Human-Soft Robot Interaction,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 8, 2021, Accessed: Jan. 25, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.674121

• 3. de M. (Spanish), “JAPAN. Tokyo. October 31st, 2022. « Silver Wing» elderly home. User plays with a pet Robot ‘Paro’ « Silver Wing» hosts and cares around 80 elderly people. A care robot was introduced in 2013 in the facility to interact and entertain. The users interact with the robot two or three times a month. About 30 minutes at a time. Creating a playful environment. There have been cases where people who enter institutions at an advanced age have examination-style disabilities, but regain a sense of time and calmness through contact with the robot. Practically, people are healed by the robot and it also contributes to reducing the manpower shortage in the facilities.”, Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://jstor.org/stable/community.35114482

• 13. 18. Thomsen and A. Karmon, “Listener: A Probe Into Information Based Material Specification,” Studies in Material Thinking, vol. 07, 2012, Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://materialthinking.aut.ac.nz/papers/72.html

• Heron Arts, Casey Curran - Writ Against The Sun - Walkthrough, (Jul. 08, 2024). Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online Video]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnKnOrNoPF8

• Otherlab, Early Pneubotics, (Nov. 08, 2011). Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online Video]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syzZVLQ3FpQ

• AdiM33, “Soft Robotic Mask,” Instructables. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.instructables.com/APOSEMA/

• lynne myers I. designboom, “MIT scientists use autonomous knitting to create soft assistive robotic wearables,” designboom | architecture & design magazine. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.designboom.com/technology/mit-scientists-autonomous-knitting-soft-assistive-robotic-wearables-05-03-2022/

• 19. LaBarre, “Almost Genius: Robotic Arm Cuff Works Like a Wearable Therapist,” Fast Company. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.fastcompany.com/1662830/almost-genius-robotic-arm-cuff-works-like-a-wearable-therapist

• MF, “inflatable anthropomorphic sculpture uses soft robotics to mimic breathing,” designboom | architecture & design magazine. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.designboom.com/technology/inflatable-sculpture-soft-robotics-breathing-pulse-mateo-fernandez-01-04-2023/

• XYZAidan, “Soft Robotics,” Instructables. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.instructables.com/Soft-Robotics/

• “2018 Tusk,” Casey Curran. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.caseycurran.com/new-gallery

• “Aeromorph inflatables fold themselves from flat sheets into complex origami.” Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/01/04/aeromorph-inflatables-fold-themselves-from-flat-sheets-complex-origami/

• “Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab.” Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://bioinspired.ucsd.edu/home

• “Home - Strandbeest.” Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.strandbeest.com/

• “PARO Therapeutic Robot.” Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.parorobots.com/

• “Soft Robotics and Posthuman Entities by Mads Bering Christiansen.” Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/549014/1003289

• “Squeeze Me,” AIR GIANTS. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.airgiants.co.uk/squeeze-me.html

• “The Ordinary Must Not Be Dull: Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Sculptures,” Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://pulitzerarts.org/art/claes-oldenburgs-soft-sculptures/

• “UC San Diego Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab,” YouTube. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQZaIRspXVox7eVmfEW8ew

• “Origami-like soft robot can lift 1000 times its weight,” Engadget. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.engadget.com/2017-11-27-origami-like-soft-robot-can-lift-1000-times-its-weight.html

• “FOAMs: Soft Robotic Artificial Muscles,” Wyss Institute. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://wyss.harvard.edu/technology/foams-soft-robotic-artificial-muscles/

• “Soft Robotics,” 30 KM/s. Accessed: Jan. 29, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://30km-s.blog/category/soft-robotics/