Frankenstein exhibition @ Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Come and meet Frankie at the Frankenstein exhibition @ Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. Opening 16 March – 28 October 2018
Meet Frankie
Frankie is an artificial starfish, made by the SRMG. His five-legged body consists of 100% silicone rubber. He is a so-called soft robot and he will be starring in the …
Edge of Chaos
On October 25th at the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam, I received a grant to build an interactive art installation. It is one of three original media artworks that will be …
Who doesn’t want to wear a soft robotic jacket?!
I have been awarded funding through the programme ‘Creatieve industrie – Kennis Innovatie Mapping’ (KIEM) from NWO Humanities. The funding will go to “Project Cairo: an intelligent soft robotic jacket”. I …
10 DEGREES
In January, my research on reconfigurable prismatic architected materials (published in Nature) was translated into the interactive art exhibition 10 DEGREES in Cambridge, US. Each of the four large sculptures in the exhibition has …
Runner-up Soft Robotics Competitions
The winners of the 2016 Soft Robotics Design Competitions have been announced! This year, for the second time, the Soft Robotics Toolkit has hosted a competition in which 80+ teams …
Paper in PRL
Today, Physical Review Letters published or work on a tensile instability that occurs in thick blocks of soft materials. In 1948, Rivlin predicted analytically that a tensile instability can occur in an elastic …
Paper in Nature Communications
Today, Nature Communications published our paper “A three-dimensional actuated origami-inspired transformable metamaterial with multiple degrees of freedom” in which we introduce a new type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable …
Inverse design of water-based 3D printing
In a collaboration with Neri Oxman’s Mediated Matter Design group at MIT, I am currently working on an interdisciplinary project that focusses on the drying behavior of biodegradable hydrogel composites that …
On the cover of PNAS
On 17 August, the results of our research efforts “Amplifying the Response of Soft Actuators by Harnessing Snap-through Instabilities” were published in the early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy …