The Toolkit includes an open source fluidic control board, detailed design documentation describing a wide range of soft robotic components (including actuators and sensors), and related files that can be downloaded and used in the design, manufacture, and operation of soft robots.

The Toolkit was developed as part of educational research being undertaken in the Harvard Biodesign Lab. The ultimate aim of the Toolkit is to advance the field of soft robotics by allowing designers and researchers to build upon each other’s work. The Soft Robotics Toolkit is a collection of shared resources to support the design, fabrication, modeling, characterization, and control of soft robotic devices. Interested in hearing more about the comeptition? S ign up for our newsletter for announcment and results. For the details and excerpts from each winner please visit the 2018 competition page. We could not have grown this online community without the help of our contributors. Over the past four years, we have hosted over 800 participants in the competition and have amassed a total of 127 pages of documentation sets. Our judges, who are researchers, professional, and experts in their field have reviewed each submission for novelty, significance to the field of research, and quality of documentation. We would like to thank everyone who participated this year in the form of contributors or as part of our esteemed judging panel. These, and other soft robotic components will be published on the Toolkit to add to the growing library of soft robotic technologies. This year we received submissions of medical devices, aquatic vehicles, and soft sensors.

The results of the 2018 Soft Robotic Design Competitions and Prize for Research have been announced!

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