Faculty of Engineering

The University of Bristol has a strong Soft Robotics research landscape, with upstream and downstream research capabilities in areas such as smart materials; smart structures and mechanism; dextrous manipulation; autonomous robots; wearable robotics; human interaction and augmentation; bio-inspired robotics; environmental monitoring and remediation; space robotics and implantable medical devices.

Join us at our Soft Robotics Showcase to find out more. Meet our inspirational researchers and other industry stakeholders working in this area and explore opportunities for developing collaborations and partnerships.

Speakers

Professor Jonathan Rossiter
Towards ubiquitous soft robots - adaptive robotics that work for us, with us, around us, on us and as part of us.
SoftLab Bristol

Dr Helmut Hauser
Morphological Computation - Building better bodies for better robots

Dr Andrew Conn
Bioinspired soft robotics – accelerated robotics development through Nature-inspired systems

Dr Hermes Gadelha
Learning lessons from microorganisms – from sperm motility to next generation soft robots
Polymaths Lab

Dr Hemma Philamore
Environmental soft robotics – symbiotic robots use free energy to combat pollution and reduce landfill

Dr Martin Garrad
Augmenting humans with soft robots – you want an extra limb? No problem!

3 minute research spotlights with Q&A

• Richard Suphapol Diteesawat: Needs and Developments of Soft Robotics in Wearable Technologies
• Emanuele Pulvirenti: Towards a soft exosuit for low-gravity adaptation
• Christian Romero: Polyelectrolyte elastomers and ionic diodes for artificial muscles
• Mohammad Naghavi Zadeh: Metamaterials for soft robots
• Saba Firouznia: Magnetohydrodynamics in soft robotics
• Ridhi Bansal: Soft Robotic Cellbots
• Valentina Lo Gatto: Innovative Space Probe Design: Bioinspiration, Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation to Explore Extra-terrestrial Marine Environments
• Alexander Keller: Smart Biopolymers for Biomedical and Edible robotic applications
• Ciqun Xu: Electric field driven gel actuators
• Keren Yue: Soft robotic approach to mitigate aspiration
• Tianqi Yue: Applications of Bio-inspired Suction in Robotics
• Tsam Lung You: Towards a soft-bodied, autonomous, ribbon fin swimming robot
• Edith-Clare Hall: Wearable soft robotics for ALS using co-design
• Vijay Chandiramani: Towards designing better legged robots using an inter-play of Embodied Intelligence and Active Control
• Peter Wharton: Novel Methods of Generating Travelling Waves in Soft Robotics