Agile flat swimming robot propelled by undulating soft fins

Sensorized PopTouch

PopTouch as a toggle switch

Transparent PopTouch

Fully-printed stretchable cutaneous haptics on a fingertip using stretchable HAXELs

Washing of fabric artificial muscles with embedded EHD fiber pumps

How to make a fiber pump

Inverse hydraulic artificial muscles powered with EHD fiber pumps

Kinking and stretching of EHD fiber pumps

Thermal haptic glove for virtual reality powered with EHD fiber pumps

Fluidic textile made from woven EHD fiber pumps

Fluidic fabric muscle powered with integrated EHD fiber pump

Untethered thermoregulatory clothing using EHD fiber pumps

Fiber pumps: the self-pumping tubes for future fluidics

Shape programming of Multistable variable-stiffness electromagnetic actuators

calibration and user VR experience of a thin glove proving variable stiffness sensation

Glove with thin variable-friction electrostatic clutches for Kinesthetic Haptics

Haptic sleeve: user calibration and tests to feel weight in VR

Compliant electrostatic clutch in sleeve-format: controlling elbow bending

Soft shielded force sensor on a gripper manipulating a water balloon, giving normal and shear forces

Soft force sensor worn on thumb while peeling and cutting fruit

Shielded soft force sensors that are immune to sparks

Dexterous manipulation using electroadhesive fingers

Feel-through haptics with ultra-thin DEAs for AR and VR

Fabrication process for our fully printed soft machines

Inkjet-printed soft machines in operation

HAXELs: Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Actuators for Wearable Haptics

Array of HAXELs

HAXEL with both in-plane and out-of-plane motion. Shear and normal force from a single actuator

Reconfigurable and latchable shape-morphing dielectric elastomers (DEA) based on SMPs

HIgh-force textile clutch for wearable haptics

DEAnsect the robotic ant: how it works and what it can do

DEAnsect legs filmed with a High Speed Camera

DEAnsect flattened by a fly swatter --- keeps on walking!

Untethered DEAnsect (soft robot) autonomously navigates a figure 8 path, then stops at the end.

Santa's reinDEArs

DEAnsect animation showing leg motion as propelled by artificial muscles

electroactive soft gripper (EPFL-LMTS)

Stretching the soft pump (silver electrodes)

Stretchable pump embedded in a textile glove for on-body thermal regulation

Soft pump moving liquid between two chambers of heart shaped reservoir

self-contained fluid muscle, driven by stretchable EHD pump

stretching the soft pump (carbon version)

Assembling the Soft pump (accelerated)

DextrES Wearable Haptic Feedback: Short video

DextrES Wearable Haptic Feedback (2017)

Array of 768 Shape Memory Polymer actuators for haptic displays

Matrix of 16 DEAs driven by integrated array of flexible 1 kV TFTs

active skin with 768 independent elements, using shape memory polymer actuators

12x16 haptic display to provide graphical information to visually impaired users

12x16 haptic display: dynamic graphical information for visually impaired users

Soft and strong gripper combining electroadhesion and DEA

BlindPAD16 taxel Haptic Display based on Shape Memory Polymers

BlindPAD16 taxel Haptic Display based on Electromagnetic actuation

BlindPAD16 taxel EM Haptic Display

Stretchable touch responsive dielectric elastomer actuator

Fast soft tuneable lens based on artificial muscles

A Flying Robot Controlled by Artificial Muscles

Gripper based on dielectric minimum energy structures

Small motor based on artificial muscles