🔬 University#116 San Diego, United States
Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab
Lab at UC San Diego focusing on biologically-inspired robotics and design, borrowing principles from nature to create automated systems with lifelike capabilities. Research spans soft actuators, sensors, and adaptive locomotion systems.
soft roboticsbioinspired designperceptionlegged locomotion
Notable achievements
Bioinspired soft robotic systems, nature-inspired design methodologies
Notable work
Soft robotic locomotionBio-inspired design principles
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
OTHER
Structurally engineered ultrasoft PEDOT:PSS fiber microelectrodes with enhanced electrochemical performance for neural interfaces.
Won C, Cho YU, Kweon S +16 more
Science advances · 2026
MANIPULATION
Armadillo-inspired active morphing skeletons for soft machines.
Zhou J, Zhou W, Lee SJ +3 more
Science advances · 2026
MANIPULATION
Self-healing and sense-healing: metal-organic framework-filled polymers for robust and durable soft robotics.
Rajeev S, Amayeka SA, Panicker UG
Materials horizons · 2026
LOCOMOTION
Open access
Bridging the Gap: Enabling Soft Actor Critic for High Performance Legged Locomotion
Gianluca Sabatini, Chenhao Li, Marco Hutter
2026
LOCOMOTION
Open access
ARC-RL: A Reinforcement Learning Playground Inspired by ARC Raiders
Carlo Romeo, Andrew D. Bagdanov
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics
Ziyu Wei, Luting Wang, Chen Gao +2 more
2026