We introduced smart #artificial_muscle material with smooth #graded_stiffness: make a durable connection on the stiffer side - you may even drill it! actuate the softer side electrically. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

When triggered by 800V, this artificial muscle made from a stiffness-graded electroactive material dilates by 50% mimicking the behavior of an iris. Majid Taghavi Imperial Materials Read the article: ow.ly/410150K02Tn

Our latest Advanced Functional Materials paper on new electric field-driven soft gel actuators is online here: doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2…. Video here: youtube.com/watch?v=cTvSyc… well done Ciqun Xu! Faul Research Group Majid Taghavi BristolRoboticsLab

Just a few more days left to apply for the PhD scholarships in Biomedical Engineering and Robotics in our group: findaphd.com/phds/phd-resea… Bioengineering, The University of Sheffield ACSE at Sheffield Insigneo Institute EngineeringSheffield

Cate and Visva from @SoRoTransducer spent a week at #CIMAINA and conducted fascinating experiments! Thanks P. Milani for hosting. So proud of their hard work and excited to see where their research takes them next.

Congrats to Lawrence Hou, who ranked 1st in his MSc cohort and received the best academic performance award! Proud to have you on my team. If attending #ICRA2023, check out his impressive late results poster on origami-inspired wrist actuator before we publish the full paper.

Back in the lab with Ali Sadeghi after 7 years! Excited to prepare materials for our workshop tomorrow on "Untethered Soft Robotics", hosted by Unevrsity of Twente.

Visva Moorthy and Lawrence Hou have presented their late breaking results in #ICRA2023 today. Heads up for their publications if you are interested in #haptic feedback, #tremor suppression #orthotics and origami-inspired robotic wrist.

Our demo table in the Imperial College London's Center for Neuro Rehabilitaion, eagerly awaiting for the #ICRA2023 visitors. Will have an action-packed day with over 130 registered individuals. Imperial Bioengineering

Fabulous evening dining in style on the SSGB, following day two's exciting talks at #EuroEAP2023 @BristolUniEng Bristol Mathematics BristolRoboticsLab

Soft Robotic Transducers lab members sharing their work with the Electroactive Polymer community at the 11th @EuroEAP conference in Bristol. Well done visva, @xyj022, Caterina Azais.

Thank you Andrew Conn for organizing the @EuroEAP conference in Bristol. Many high quality talks, great discussions, and a wonderful social program.

Join our workshop at the Hamlyn Symposium where we'll explore soft robotics, advanced biomaterials, and clinical translational science and their potential synergies in addressing unmet challenges associated with mobility and motility disorders. #HSMR23 hamlynsymposium.org/events/discipl…

Just wrapped up a fantastic workshop at The Hamlyn Centre with a brilliant diverse speakers from engineering and clinical backgrounds! Together, we explored potential pathways for future impactful technologies that can restore physiological functions #HSMR23

Exciting wrap-up of "SoRo for Healthcare", our inaugural 2-day conference! 🚀 Insightful keynotes from Ellen Roche MIT, Dana Damian, MAISI, Prof. Yves Perriard, and Prof. Shervanthi Homer, Looking forward to continuing this conference series next year!

We're offering two funded #PhD positions at #Imperial, co-supervised by Prof. Dario Farina. It's about developing future upper-limb #soft_robots with physical & artificial intelligence. Imperial College Robotics Forum Imperial Bioengineering Imperial College London NeuroCon imperial.ac.uk/soft-robotic-t…

Check out our recent article in Nature Communications: #ElectroRibbon artificial muscle with a high contraction that can independently tune its stiffness and damping. Great work from Yuejun Xu nature.com/articles/s4146…

Back in December we held the 5th edition of the Robotics Forum - Amazon PhD Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Robotics📷! ✨Congratulations again to the winners & finalists🌟! Ivan Kapelyukh 🇺🇦 Xin Zhou Vitalis Vosylius Thrishantha Nanayakkara Ad Spiers Edward Johns @ CoRL 2025 Majid Taghavi Angela Kedgley

Call for Poster Presentations - 𝘊𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘨 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 2025 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 & 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘦 meeting, June 9 2025, The Royal Society London Poster session 17:00 [email protected]

I have an open PhD position. Please see the link below for further information and scholarship details: sems.qmul.ac.uk/research/stude…