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Overview

Jamie Paik is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and specializes primarily in the field of Engineering. Within this broad discipline, their research focuses on subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Condensed Matter Physics, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Their work covers several topics related to robotics and materials science. Key areas include Soft Robotics and Applications, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Micro and Nano Robotics, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, and Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Jamie Paik include:

  • Soft pneumatic actuator-driven origami-inspired modular robotic "pneumagami" (2020) in The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • A sEMG-Driven Soft ExoSuit Based on Twisted String Actuators for Elbow Assistive Applications (2020) in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Pneumatic Supply System Parameter Optimization for Soft Actuators (2020) in Soft Robotics
  • Kirigami Design and Modeling for Strong, Lightweight Metamaterials (2022) in Advanced Functional Materials
  • Soft Touch using Soft Pneumatic Actuator-Skin as a Wearable Haptic Feedback Device (2021) in Advanced Intelligent Systems

Jamie Paik collaborates frequently with several researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Sagar Joshi
  • Harshal Sonar
  • Kevin Holdcroft
  • Mustafa Mete
  • Christoph H. Belke

Their publications appear predominantly in venues such as:

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Nature Communications
  • Soft Robotics
  • Soft Matter

In addition to journal articles, Jamie Paik has contributed to academic literature through book publications. Notably, they published a title with Springer International Publishing:

  • Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (2024)

Best Publications

  • New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities

    Matthew Aaron Robertson;Jamie Paik

  • Modeling, Design, and Development of Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Finite Element Method

    Philip Moseley;Juan Manuel Florez;Harshal Arun Sonar;Gunjan Agarwal

  • Designing minimal and scalable insect-inspired multi-locomotion millirobots

    Zhenishbek Zhakypov;Kazuaki Mori;Koh Hosoda;Jamie Paik

  • Characterization of silicone rubber based soft pneumatic actuators

    Yi Sun;Yun Seong Song;Jamie Paik

  • Stretchable Materials for Robust Soft Actuators towards Assistive Wearable Devices.

    Gunjan Agarwal;Nicolas Besuchet;Basile Nicolas Audergon;Jamie Paik

  • Design and Analysis of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Origami Shell Reinforcement

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  • Mori: A Modular Origami Robot

    Christoph H. Belke;Jamie Paik

  • Soft Pneumatic Actuator Fascicles for High Force and Reliability

    Matthew Aaron Robertson;Hamed Sadeghi;Juan Manuel Florez;Jamie Paik

  • Modular Reconfigurable Robotics

    Jungwon Seo;Jamie Paik;Mark Yim

  • Closed-Loop Haptic Feedback Control Using a Self-Sensing Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin.

    Harshal Arun Sonar;Aaron Powers Gerratt;Stéphanie Lacour;Jamie Paik

  • Soft pneumatic gelatin actuator for edible robotics

    Jun Shintake;Harshal Sonar;Egor Piskarev;Jamie Paik

  • Grasp Mode and Compliance Control of an Underactuated Origami Gripper Using Adjustable Stiffness Joints

    Amir Firouzeh;Jamie Paik

  • Stiffness Control With Shape Memory Polymer in Underactuated Robotic Origamis

    Amir Firouzeh;Marco Salerno;Jamie Paik

  • Robogami: A Fully Integrated Low-Profile Robotic Origami

    Amir Firouzeh;Jamie Paik

  • Variable stiffness fabrics with embedded shape memory materials for wearable applications

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  • JammJoint: A Variable Stiffness Device Based on Granular Jamming for Wearable Joint Support

    Simon Hauser;Matthew Robertson;Auke Ijspeert;Jamie Paik

  • A novel low-profile shape memory alloy torsional actuator

    Jamie K Paik;Elliot Hawkes;Elliot Hawkes;Robert J Wood

  • Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin with Piezoelectric Sensors for Vibrotactile Feedback

    Harshal Arun Sonar;Jamie Paik

  • A portable three-degrees-of-freedom force feedback origami robot for human–robot interactions

    Stefano Mintchev;Marco Salerno;Alexandre Cherpillod;Simone Scaduto

  • A bidirectional shape memory alloy folding actuator

    Jamie K Paik;Robert J Wood

  • An Origami-Inspired Reconfigurable Suction Gripper for Picking Objects With Variable Shape and Size

    Zhenishbek Zhakypov;Florian Heremans;Aude Billard;Jamie Paik

  • Design Methodology for Constructing Multimaterial Origami Robots and Machines

    Zhenishbek Zhakypov;Jamie Paik

  • How can human motion prediction increase transparency

    N. Jarrasse;J. Paik;V. Pasqui;G. Morel

  • Soft pneumatic actuator with adjustable stiffness layers for Multi-DoF Actuation

    Amir Firouzeh;Marco Salerno;Jamie Paik

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Wood
Robert J. Wood Harvard University
Guillaume Morel
Guillaume Morel Sorbonne University
Ralph Spolenak
Ralph Spolenak ETH Zurich
Metin Sitti
Metin Sitti Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Gianluca Palli
Gianluca Palli University of Bologna
Stéphanie P. Lacour
Stéphanie P. Lacour École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Auke Jan Ijspeert
Auke Jan Ijspeert École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Aude Billard
Aude Billard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Claudio Melchiorri
Claudio Melchiorri University of Bologna
Carmel Majidi
Carmel Majidi Carnegie Mellon University

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