Mobility Enhancing Soft Exosuit at Harvard HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-09-11 | Next generation wearable robots for enhancing mobility of healthy individuals and restoring mobility of those with physical disabilities via a more conformal and unobtrusive interface to the human body. To learn more visit the Harvard Biodesign Lab website at http://biodesign.seas.harvard.edu.Muscle Activation During Gait animation credit: K. Oberhofer, K. Mithraratne, N. S. Stott, I. A. Anderson (2009). Anatomically-based musculoskeletal modeling: prediction and validation of muscle deformation during walking. The Visual Computer, 25(9), 843 – 851
The Soft Robotics Toolkit. UTEC-Harvard Workshop on Soft Robotics in Lima, Peru. HarvardBiodesignLab 2016-11-10 | www.softroboticstoolkit.com
Soft Wearable Robotic Glove HarvardBiodesignLab 2015-05-08 | Polygerinos, P., Galloway, K., Savage, E.a, Herman, M., O’Donnell, K., Walsh, C. Soft Robotic Glove for Hand Rehabilitation and Task Specific Training. Proc. Inter. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2015.
CNET segment on the Soft Robotics Toolkit HarvardBiodesignLab 2015-03-22 | Soft Robotics Toolkitwww.softroboticstoolkit.com
Soft robot for tube navigation via fiber-based mechanical programming HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-12-07 | Soft fluidic fiber-reinforced actuators are combined in series to achieve forward locomotion and perform an orientation-specific task.
Soft Robotic Glove HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-09-04 | 22 Polygerinos, P., Wang, Z., Galloway, K., Wood, R., Walsh, C.J. Soft Robotic Glove for Combined Assistance and at-Home Rehabilitation. RAS Special Issue on Wearable Robotics (in press).
A Bioinspired Soft Active Material and Cardiac Simulator HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-09-04 | Roche, E.T., Wohlfarth, R., Overvelde, J., Vasilyev, N., Pigula, F., Mooney, D., Bertoldi, K., Walsh, C. A Bioinspired Soft Actuated Material, Advanced Materials, Vol 26, Issue 8, pages 1200–1206, Feb 26, 2014.
Compact Robotically Steerable Image Guided Robot for Multi Adjacent Point MAP Targeting HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-06-09 | ...
Patient-mounted medical robot HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-06-09 | Animal trial of an image-guided, disposable patient-mounted robot for CT-guided percutaneous interventions.
Soft multi-material fiber-reinforced bending actuator HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-06-09 | A fluid-powered soft bending actuator
Motion sensing suit HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-06-09 | Motion sensing suit with integrated hyper-elastic soft sensors for measuring hip, knee and ankle kinematics in the sagittal plane.
Multi-joint actuation platform for soft exosuits HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-06-09 | Lab-based actuation platform for performing human subjects experiments with soft wearable robots.
Surgical grasper with integrated sensing HarvardBiodesignLab 2014-06-09 | A mm-scale surgical grasper with integrated sensing to measure grip force.
A Lightweight Soft Exosuit for Gait Assistance HarvardBiodesignLab 2013-06-21 | Targeting a specific set of applications where a wearer needs some partial assistance from a robot, Researchers from the Harvard Biodesign Lab (http://biodesign.seas.harvard.edu) are pursuing a new paradigm: the use of soft clothing-like "exosuits." An exosuit does not contain any rigid elements, so the wearer's bone structure must sustain all the compressive forces normally encountered by the body -- plus the forces generated by the exosuit. The suit, which is composed primarily of specially designed fabrics, can be significantly lighter than an exoskeleton since it does not contain a rigid structure. It also provides minimal restrictions to the wearer's motions, avoiding problems relating to joint misalignment. Ongoing work to optimize the suit design and make it portable is funded by DARPA's Warrior Web Program.
