Softroboticstoolkit.com Website Review

THE RESULTS OF THE 2018 SOFT ROBOTIC DESIGN COMPETITIONS AND PRIZE FOR RESEARCH HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED! This year we received submissions of medical devices, aquatic vehicles, and soft sensors. These, and other soft robotic components will be published on the Toolkit to add to the growing library of soft robotic technologies. We would like to thank everyone who participated this year in the form of contributors or as part of our esteemed judging panel. Our judges, who are researchers, professional, and experts in their field have reviewed each submission for novelty, significance to the field of research, and quality of docu*entation. Over the past four years, we have hosted over 800 participants in the competition and have amas*ed a total of 127 pages of docu*entation sets. We could not have grown this online community without the help of our contributors. Interested in hearing more about the comeptition? Sign up for our newsletter The Soft Robotics Toolkit is a collection of shared resources to support the design, fabrication, modeling, characterization, and control of soft robotic devices. The Toolkit was developed as part of educational research being undertaken in the Harvard Biodesign Lab design docu*entation describing a wide range of soft robotic components (including actuators and sensors), and related files that can be do*nloaded and used in the design, manufacture, and operation of soft robots. In combination with low material costs and increasingly accessible rapid prototyping technologies such as 3D printers, laser cutters, and CNC mills, the Toolkit enables soft Each section of the site focuses on a soft robotic device or component, and includes the following sections: materials, and equipment you will need to build your own device, plus a detailed set of instructions for you to follow. describes the tests that other designers and researchers have carried out and that may provide inspiration for the design of your own and expand the toolkit by welcoming feedback and contributions from the soft robotics community. To read more about the development