Papers
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Total Citations
2,626
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About
Sangok Seok is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work spans two transformative domains: high-performance legged locomotion and soft robotics. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to the MIT Cheetah robot project, where he developed core design principles for energy-efficient quadrupedal locomotion by systematically addressing energy losses in actuators, transmissions, and ground interactions. His landmark 2014 paper on the MIT Cheetah's design principles has accumulated over 500 citations, while his work on proprioceptive actuator design—enabling impact mitigation and high-bandwidth physical interaction—has become a cornerstone reference for dynamic legged robot development with over 450 citations. Seok also made significant early contributions to soft robotics, developing the Meshworm platform, a biologically inspired peristaltic soft robot that mimics the antagonistic muscle architecture of earthworms; this work has garnered over 650 citations and remains highly influential in the field. More recently, he has explored autonomous navigation using deep reinforcement learning for mobile robots operating in constrained environments. Collectively, Seok's research has shaped modern expectations for robust, efficient, and biologically inspired robotic systems, earning him well over 2,600 citations across his career.
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- 6Peristaltic locomotion with antagonistic actuators in soft robotics169 citations · 2010
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- 8A hybrid dynamic model for the AMBIDEX tendon-driven manipulator46 citations · 2020
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