Sara Marullo
Papers
6
Total Citations
81
H-Index
4
About
Sara Marullo is a roboticist whose research lies at the intersection of soft manipulation, human-robot interaction, and assistive technology. Her most significant contributions center on developing novel grippers and control strategies for handling deformable objects—particularly clothing—a notoriously difficult challenge in robotics. She introduced the **DressGripper** (2022, 26 citations), a collaborative gripper with electromagnetic fingertips designed for safe dressing assistance, and the **Mag-Gripper** (2020, 18 citations), a soft-rigid hybrid gripper that uses electromagnets to precisely grasp and manipulate garments. Marullo also advanced grasp planning with her hand closure model for soft robotic hands (2020, 25 citations), and proposed a physics-based framework using magnets to robustify motion control of soft hands (2022). Beyond assistive dressing, her work extends to cooperative human-robot grasping with extended contact patches (2020) and even bioengineering, where she contributed to **RobHeart** (2022), a soft robot that applies heart-like volumetric stress to cardiac cells. With a growing citation record and a focus on practical, real-world applications, Marullo is establishing herself as a key figure in soft robotics and assistive manipulation.
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Top Papers
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- 2Hand closure model for planning top grasps with soft robotic hands25 citations · 2020
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- 4On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands6 citations · 2022
- 5Cooperative Human-Robot Grasping With Extended Contact Patches4 citations · 2020
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