The Center for Soft Robotics extends research on biomimetic and bio-inspired robotics at SDU Biorobotics, in which Nature’s exploitation of unconventional materials and solution principles is of interest.
AI Matter (Ahmad Rafsanjani)
AI Matter aims at transferring great material ideas from Nature to robotics to build bioinspired soft robots with embodied intelligence and integrated control and learning.
Soft Robotics Art & Human-Soft Robot Interactions (Jonas Jørgensen)
Soft robotics for sustainability (Saravana P. Murali Babu)
Current Projects
Robot Touch // Touching Robotics (2024-2026)
PI: Jonas Jørgensen
Funding: The Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Encoding motion in an interface: The shape-morphing armored skin of pufferfish (2023-2027)
PI: Ahmad Rafsanjani
Postdoc: Bahman Taherkhani
Funding: Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).
Seeing without seeing through bioinspired soft touch (2021-2025)
PI: Ahmad Rafsanjani
PhD student: Arman Goshtasbi
Funding: The Independent Research Fund Denmark – Sapere Aude Research Leader Grant
Adaptive Crawling with a Soft Skin: A Snake-Inspired Soft Robot for Rectilinear Locomotion (2021-2026)
PI: Ahmad Rafsanjani
PhD student: Burcu Seyidoğlu
Postdoc: Aida Parvaresh
Funding: The Villum Foundation – The Villum Young Investigator Program