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Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Wearable Electrohydraulic Actuation for Salient Full-Fingertip Haptic Feedback Shao, Y., Shagan Shomron, A., Javot, B., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, (2401525):1-12, January 2025, Yitian Shao and Alona Shagan Shomron contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Biomimetic Materials and Machines Article Highly agile flat swimming robot Hartmann, F., Baskaran, M., Raynaud, G., Benbedda, M., Mulleners, K., Shea, H. February 2025 (Published) BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article A robotic and virtual testing platform highlighting the promise of soft wearable actuators for wrist tremor suppression Shagan Shomron, A., Chase-Markopoulou, C., Walter, J. R., Sellhorn-Timm, J., Shao, Y., Nadler, T., Benson, A., Wochner, I., Rumley, E. H., Wurster, I., et al. Device, :100719, March 2025 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Organizational Leadership and Diversity Article Accelerating the pace of innovation in robotics by fostering diversity and inclusive leadership Macari, D., Fratzl, A., Keplinger, K., Keplinger, C. Science Robotics, 9, December 2024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Organizational Leadership and Diversity Robotic Materials Article Accelerating the pace of innovation in robotics by fostering diversity and inclusive leadership Macari, D., Fratzl, A., Keplinger, K., Keplinger, C. Science Robotics, 9:eadt1958, December 2024 (Published) Accelerating the pace of innovation in robotics by fostering diversity and inclusive leadership Accelerating the pace of innovation in robotics by fostering diversity and inclusive leadership DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Pleasant Broad-Bandwidth Haptic Cues Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Rothemund, P., Ballardini, G., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Science, 11(48):1-14, December 2024, This article was selected for the inside front cover. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202470295 (Published) Video DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Active Haptic Feedback for a Virtual Wrist-Anchored User Interface Bartels, J. U., Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Sedlmair, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Adjunct Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Hands-on demonstration presented at the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Pittsburgh, USA, October 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots Yoder, Z., Rumley, E., Schmidt, I., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C. Science Robotics, 9, September 2024 (Published) Video PDF DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Electrohydraulic Musculoskeletal Robotic Leg for Agile, Adaptive, yet Energy-Efficient Locomotion Buchner, T. J. K., Fukushima, T., Kazemipour, A., Gravert, S., Prairie, M., Romanescu, P., Arm, P., Zhang, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, S. L., et al. Nature Communications, 15(1), September 2024 (Published) Press release Video (overview) Video (technical description) Article in pdf DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Three-Dimensional Surface Reconstruction of a Soft System via Distributed Magnetic Sensing Sundaram, V. H., Smith, L., Turin, Z., Rentschler, M. E., Gonzalez Welker, C. Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the ICRA Workshop on Advancing Wearable Devices and Applications Through Novel Design, Sensing, Actuation, and AI, Yokohama, Japan, May 2024 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Multimodal Haptic Feedback Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Ballardini, G., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract (1 page) presented at the IEEE RoboSoft Workshop on Multimodal Soft Robots for Multifunctional Manipulation, Locomotion, and Human-Machine Interaction, San Diego, USA, April 2024 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Cutaneous Electrohydraulic Wearable Devices for Expressive and Salient Haptic Feedback Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Ballardini, G., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, Long Beach, USA, April 2024 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Miscellaneous Demonstration: Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Expressive and Salient Haptic Feedback Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Ballardini, G., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE RoboSoft Conference, San Diego, USA, April 2024 (Published) BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Electrochemically Controlled Hydrogels with Electrotunable Permeability and Uniaxial Actuation Benselfelt, T., Shakya, J., Rothemund, P., Lindström, S. B., Piper, A., Winkler, T. E., Hajian, A., Wågberg, L., Keplinger, C., Hamedi, M. M. Advanced Materials, 35(45):2303255, Wiley-VCH GmbH, November 2023 () DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent Hydraulically Amplified Self-healing Electrostatic Actuators Keplinger, C. M., Acome, E. L., Kellaris, N. A., Mitchell, S. K. (US Patent 11795979B2), October 2023 () URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent High Strain Peano Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic (HASEL) Transducers Keplinger, C. M., Wang, X., Mitchell, S. K. (US Patent App. 18/138,621), August 2023 () URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article A Multifunctional Soft Robotic Shape Display with High-speed Actuation, Sensing, and Control Johnson, B. K., Naris, M., Sundaram, V., Volchko, A., Ly, K., Mitchell, S. K., Acome, E., Kellaris, N., Keplinger, C., Correll, N., et al. Nature Communications, 14(1), July 2023 (Published) YouTube video DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent Capacitive Self-Sensing for Electrostatic Transducers with High Voltage Isolation Correll, N., Ly, K. D., Kellaris, N. A., Keplinger, C. M. (US Patent App. 17/928,453), June 2023 () URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent High Strain Peano Hydraulically Amplified Self-healing Electrostatic (HASEL) Transducers Keplinger, C. M., Wang, X., Mitchell, S. K. (US Patent 11635094), April 2023 () URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article A Versatile Jellyfish-Like Robotic Platform for Effective Underwater Propulsion and Manipulation Wang, T., Joo, H., Song, S., Hu, W., Keplinger, C., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 9(15), American Association for the Advancement of Science, April 2023, Tianlu Wang and Hyeong-Joon Joo contributed equally to this work. (Published) YouTube video DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article A Soft, Fast and Versatile Electrohydraulic Gripper with Capacitive Object Size Detection Yoder, Z., Macari, D., Kleinwaks, G., Schmidt, I., Acome, E., Keplinger, C. Advanced Functional Materials, 23(3):2209080, 2023 (Published) A Soft, Fast and Versatile Electrohydraulic Gripper with Capacitive Object Size Detection YouTube video DOI BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Biodegradable Electrohydraulic Actuators for Sustainable Soft Robots Rumley, E. H., Preninger, D., Shagan-Shomron, A., Rothemund, P., Hartmann, F., Baumgartner, M., Kellaris, N., Stojanovic, A., Yoder, Z., Karrer, B., et al. Science Advances, 9(12), 2023, Ellen H. Rumley and David Preninger were co-first authors, and Christoph Keplinger and Martin Kaltenbrunner were shared corresponding authors. (Published) YouTube video DOI BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent Hydraulically Amplified Self-healing Electrostatic Transducers Harnessing Zipping Mechanism Keplinger, C. M., Acome, E. L., Kellaris, N. A., Mitchell, S. K., Morrissey, T. G. (US Patent 11486421B2), November 2022 () URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic (HASEL) Pumps Mitchell, S. K., Acome, E. L., Keplinger, C. M. (US Patent App. 17/635,339), October 2022 () URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent Hydraulically Amplified Self-healing Electrostatic Actuators Keplinger, C. M., Acome, E. L., Kellaris, N. A., Mitchell, S. K. (US Patent 11408452), August 2022 () URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article A Pocket‐Sized Ten‐Channel High Voltage Power Supply for Soft Electrostatic Actuators Mitchell, S. K., Martin, T., Keplinger, C. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(8), August 2022 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent Composite Layering of Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic Transducers Keplinger, C. M., Mitchell, S. K., Kellaris, N. A., Rothemund, P. (US Patent App. 17436455), May 2022 () URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Electro-hydraulic Rolling Soft Wheel: Design, Hybrid Dynamic Modeling, and Model Predictive Control Ly, K., Mayekar, J. V., Aguasvivas, S., Keplinger, C., Rentschler, M. E., Correll, N. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 38(5):3044-3063, IEEE, May 2022 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Conference Paper Simulating Electrohydraulic Soft Actuator Assemblies Via Reduced Order Modeling Hainsworth, T., Schmidt, I., Sundaram, V., Whiting, G. L., Keplinger, C., MacCurdy, R. SOFT ROBOTICS. IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. 5TH 2022. (RoboSoft 2022), :21-28, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 2022 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Towards Enduring Autonomous Robots via Embodied Energy Aubin, C. A., Gorissen, B., Milana, E., Buskohl, P. R., Lazarus, N., Slipher, G. A., Keplinger, C., Bongard, J., Iida, F., Lewis, J. A., et al. Nature, 602(7897):393-402, 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Miniaturized Circuitry for Capacitive Self-sensing and Closed-loop Control of Soft Electrostatic Transducers Ly, K., Kellaris, N., McMorris, D., Johnson, B. K., Acome, E., Sundaram, V., Naris, M., Humbert, J. S., Rentschler, M. E., Keplinger, C., et al. Soft Robotics, 8(6):673-686, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, December 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Flexible Seaweed-Like Triboelectric Nanogenerator as a Wave Energy Harvester Powering Marine Internet of Things Wang, Y., Liu, X., Wang, Y., Wang, H., Wang, H., Zhang, S. L., Zhao, T., Xu, M., Wang, Z. L. ACS Nano, 15(10):15700-15709, October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Robotic Materials Book Chapter Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators Purnendu, , Novack, S., Acome, E., Alistar, M., Keplinger, C., Gross, M. D., Bruns, C., Leithinger, D. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs, :1-2, Association for Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH, August 2021 (Published) Supplemental Material DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Conference Paper Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators Purnendu, , Novack, S., Acome, E., Alistar, M., Keplinger, C., Gross, M. D., Bruns, C., Leithinger, D. In SIGGRAPH ’21: ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs, :8, ACM, New York, NY, Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference (SIGGRAPH 2021), July 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Conference Paper Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators for Origami Inspired Shape-Changing Interfaces Purnendu, , Acome, E., Keplinger, C., Gross, M. D., Bruns, C., Leithinger, D. In CHI EA ’21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, :377, ACM, New York, NY, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), May 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Patent Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic Transducers Harnessing Zipping Mechanism Keplinger, C. M., Acome, E. L., Kellaris, N. A., Mitchell, S. K., Morrissey, T. G. (US Patent 20210003149A1), January 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article A Triboelectric-Nanogenerator-Based Gas–Solid Two-Phase Flow Sensor for Pneumatic Conveying System Detecting Wang, Y., Liu, D., Hu, Z., Chen, T., Zhang, Z., Wang, H., Du, T., Zhang, S. L., Zhao, Z., Zhou, T., et al. Advanced Materials Technologies, 6(5):2001270, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Electromechanics of Planar HASEL Actuators Kirkman, S., Rothemund, P., Acome, E., Keplinger, C. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 48:101408, 2021 () DOI BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Enhanced Directional Actuation to Electric Fields Fowler, H. E., Rothemund, P., Keplinger, C., White, T. J. Advanced Materials, 33(43):2103806, 2021 () DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Physical Intelligence Robotic Materials MPI Year Book Scientific Report 2016 - 2021 2021 () Scientific Report 2016 - 2021 BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Shaping the future of robotics through materials innovation Rothemund, P., Kim, Y., Heisser, R. H., Zhao, X., Shepherd, R. F., Keplinger, C. Nature Materials, 20(12):1582-1587, 2021 () DOI URL BibTeX
Robotic Materials Article Spider-Inspired Electrohydraulic Actuators for Fast, Soft-Actuated Joints Kellaris, N., Rothemund, P., Zeng, Y., Mitchell, S. K., Smith, G. M., Jayaram, K., Keplinger, C. Advanced Science, 8(14):2100916, 2021 () DOI BibTeX