(*Co-first author) L. C. van Laake*, A. Comoretto*, J. T. B. Overvelde, On the coexistence of pressure regulation and oscillation modes in soft hysteretic valves, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2024
Publications
Awards
1st Place Award, IEEE RoboSoft 2024 Competition, Soft robotics on a budget: democratization of soft robotics through embodied intelligence, San Diego, USA, 14/04/2024. Our soft robot, Tubot, costs only 3 dollars and harnesses mechanical interactions and light sensing to achieve untethered, autonomous phototaxis. A simple robot with complex behaviors!
Best Poster Award, Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium 2023, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 17/05/2023
Best Poster Award, GRC Gordon Research Conference Robotics 2022, Ventura, USA, 19/08/2022
Talks & Posters
Talk, Synchronized self-oscillating limbs for fast and autonomous locomotion, Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium 2024, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 28/05/2024
Poster, Synchronized ultrafast limbs for fluidic soft robots, GRC Gordon Robotics 2024, Ventura, USA, 14/01/2024
Talk, Synchronized kink waves for ultrafast fluidic robots, GRS Gordon Robotics Seminar 2024, Ventura, USA, 13/01/2024
Talk, Harnessing kink wave instabilities for fast untethered pneumatic soft robots, KLEIN Colloquium, AMOLF, The Netherlands, 18/09/2023
Poster, Best Poster Award, Fluidic memory and sensing for autonomous soft robots, Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium 2023, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 17/05/2023
Talk, Fluidic memory and sensing for autonomous soft robots, APS March Meeting 2023, Las Vegas, USA, 08/03/2023
Talk, Fluidic memory and sensing for autonomous soft robots, Modern Mechanics Seminar, AMOLF, The Netherlands, 26/09/2022
Talk, Fluidic memory and sensing for autonomous soft robots, Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium 2022, Delft, The Netherlands, 01/09/2022
Poster, Best Poster Award, Fluidic memory and sensing for autonomous soft robots, GRC Gordon Robotics 2022, Ventura, USA, 19/08/2022
Talk, Fluidic memory and sensing for autonomous soft robots, ESMC 2022, Galway, Ireland, 04/07/2022
Talk, Smart fluidic circuits for electronics-free untethered soft robots, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA, 14/03/2022
Outreach & Mentoring
Supervised the MIT Summer Research Program of Matthew Fernandez, "A controllable propellant-based power source for untethered soft robots", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2024.
Output: research paper (in preparation)
Supervised the master thesis of O. Vaarkamp, "Thermopneumatics for energy autonomous soft robots: harvesting thermal energy from circadian oscillations", Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 10/04/2024.
Output: research paper (in preparation)
Supervised the master thesis of L. Galassi, "Design of a soft actuation system based on mechanical instabilities for an artificial heart ventricle", Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy, 21/04/2023.
Output: research paper (in preparation)
Organized a hands-on lab tour for the general public at the Amsterdam Science Park Open Day 2023. We showcased our Soft Robotic Matter Lab to both adults and kids, offering a glimpse into the future of soft robots and unconventional mechanics.
Prepared a workshop for kids "Falling eggs don't break" (in Dutch "Vallende eieren breken niet") at the Amsterdam Science Park Open Day 2022. Using everyday materials like paper and straws, kids designed and built structures to protect chocolate eggs falling from the second floor, exploring the wonders of morphology and creative engineering.
