Handbook on Soft Robotics

Thrishantha Nanayakkara is a professor of robotics at Imperial. He is the director of Morphlab at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial. His main research interests are in using soft robots to test hypotheses in embodied intelligence. Prior to Imperial, he has been at Kings College London, MIT, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins University. His work has been featured in the New Scientist magazine, Harvard magazine, BBC, Sky News, and Financial Times.

• 1.  Introduction.- 2. Bioinspiration.- 3. Soft robots as a platform to understand embodied intelligence.- 4. Modeling Soft Robots.- 5.Mechanical compliance: from soft robot modeling theory to FEM computation.- 6. Soft hands for grasping and manipulation.- 7. Malleable Robots.- 8. Continuum soft robots with applications in the construction industry.- 9. Origami Robots.