Pierre Duhr

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Pierre Duhr is a rising researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, magnetic actuation, and bio-inspired design. His work focuses on harnessing kirigami—the Japanese art of paper cutting—to create untethered, magnetically driven soft robots capable of complex locomotion. In his landmark 2023 paper, "Kirigami Makes a Soft Magnetic Sheet Crawl" (37 citations), Duhr demonstrated how strategic cuts in a soft magnetic sheet enable limbless, bidirectional crawling under rotating magnetic fields, breaking frictional symmetry to generate propulsive forces. This work, featured on the cover of *Advanced Science*, provides a foundational framework for designing simple, scalable soft robots. More recently, in 2024, Duhr developed a "Magnetic Hair Tactile Sensor for Directional Pressure Detection" (10 citations), mimicking human skin’s tactile sensing to create highly sensitive, directional pressure sensors for applications in robotics, bio-medicine, and human-machine interfaces. By combining magnetic elements with kirigami-inspired structures, Duhr’s contributions advance both locomotion and sensing in soft robotics, offering elegant solutions that are both functional and manufacturable. His work is already shaping how researchers think about integrating mechanical intelligence into soft, untethered systems.