Seok‐Han Lee

Korea University of Technology and Education

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Seok‐Han Lee is a leading innovator in soft robotics and smart materials, best known for his pioneering work on magnetorheological elastomer (MRE)-based gripper technologies. His research centers on developing adaptive, reversible, and hardness-variable robotic skins that address one of robotics’ most persistent challenges: reliably grasping fragile, multiscaled, and arbitrarily shaped objects. Lee’s landmark 2020 paper, “Beyond Human Hand,” introduced a universal gripper skin that dynamically alters its stiffness and shape-retention properties under magnetic fields, enabling delicate yet secure manipulation of everything from eggs to irregularly shaped tools. This work, accumulating 43 citations, has been widely recognized for offering a simple, resourceful solution to a problem that traditionally required complex sensor arrays or custom end-effectors. By merging principles of rheology with soft actuation, Lee has opened new pathways for industrial automation, prosthetic design, and human-robot interaction. His contributions stand out for their elegance and practicality, positioning him as a rising figure in the quest to make robots more dexterous, gentle, and versatile in unstructured environments.