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Savita V. Kendre is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of soft robotics, specializing in the development of fluidic control systems that replace traditional electronics. Her work focuses on creating accessible, 3D-printed pneumatic logic gates and circuits, enabling the control of soft robots without microcontrollers or power electronics. Kendre’s major contributions include the invention of "Tube-Balloon Logic" (2022, 22 citations), which introduces fluidic control elements for pneumatically driven robots, and the "Soft Compiler" (2022, 20 citations), a web-based tool that automates the design of modular pneumatic circuits, reducing assembly errors. She has also advanced fabrication methods by using Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) to print CMOS-like logic gates from flexing beam mechanisms (2024, 5 citations) and fully 3D-printed fluidic valves (2024, 3 citations), addressing challenges in reproducibility and manual labor. Her latest work on auto-routing fluidic printed circuit boards (2025) tackles the bottleneck of interconnecting soft robotic components. With a growing citation impact, Kendre’s innovations are making soft robotic control more practical, scalable, and accessible, promising to unlock new applications in environments where electronics are unsuitable.