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Barbara Mazzolai
Researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Publications - 369
Citations - 12823
Barbara Mazzolai is an academic researcher from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soft robotics & Robot. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 333 publications receiving 9687 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara Mazzolai include Spanish National Research Council & National Research Council.
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Highly stretchable electroluminescent skin for optical signaling and tactile sensing
Chris Larson,Bryan Peele,Shuo Li,Sanlin S. Robinson,Massimo Totaro,Lucia Beccai,Barbara Mazzolai,Robert F. Shepherd +7 more
TL;DR: An electroluminescent material is presented that is capable of large uniaxial stretching and surface area changes while actively emitting light and is combined in a stretchable electronic material suitable for soft robotics.
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Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities.
TL;DR: The challenge ahead for soft robotics is to further develop the abilities for robots to grow, evolve, self-heal, develop, and biodegrade, which are the ways that robots can adapt their morphology to the environment.
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Soft Robot Arm Inspired by the Octopus
Cecilia Laschi,Matteo Cianchetti,Barbara Mazzolai,Laura Margheri,Maurizio Follador,Paolo Dario +5 more
TL;DR: The prototype of a robot arm has been built based on an artificial muscular hydroStat inspired to the muscular hydrostat of the Octopus vulgaris, which emerges as a good model for embodied intelligence and for soft robotics.
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An octopus-bioinspired solution to movement and manipulation for soft robots.
Marcello Calisti,Michele Giorelli,Guy Levy,Barbara Mazzolai,Binyamin Hochner,Cecilia Laschi,Paolo Dario,Paolo Dario +7 more
TL;DR: This study investigates the smart solution that the Octopus vulgaris adopts to perform a crawling movement, with the same limbs used for grasping and manipulation, with a suitable way to build a more complex soft robot that, with minimum control, can perform diverse tasks.
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Flexible Three‐Axial Force Sensor for Soft and Highly Sensitive Artificial Touch
Lucie Viry,Alessandro Levi,Massimo Totaro,Alessio Mondini,Virgilio Mattoli,Barbara Mazzolai,Lucia Beccai +6 more
TL;DR: A soft tactile sensor able to detect both normal and tangential forces is fabricated with a simple method using conductive textile, representing an original approach in the emulation of natural touch.