The Group

The Soft Robotics Lab has been founded in July 2020 by Prof. Robert Katzschmann, previously of MIT. With experience in designing soft, flexible, and adaptive robots the team will further develop, fabricate and design ground breaking control systems to push the abilities of robots for real life applications.

In recent years the research has gained extensive attention from news and media alike. These include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Reuters, BBC, NBC News, Nature, CNN, Wired, CNBC, TechCrunch, LA Times, NPR, CNET, Mashable, The Verge, Forbes, IEEE Spectrum, Popular Mechanics, Science Magazine and Scientific American.

We are offering open student projects (semester projects of thesis works) in the areas of design and development of robotic arms, robotic hands, swimming robots, and walking robots made of soft actuators and sensors.