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Michael T. Tolley is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Control and Systems Engineering, and Condensed Matter Physics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • Science Robotics
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots," 2020, Science Robotics
  • "Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling soft-legged robots," 2021, Science Robotics
  • "Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges," 2021, Géotechnique
  • "Bioinspired soft robots for deep-sea exploration," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Hard questions for soft robotics," 2021, Science Robotics

Michael T. Tolley has collaborated frequently with a core group of researchers, including:

  • Iman Adibnazari
  • Nick Gravish
  • Saurabh Jadhav
  • Paul E. Glick
  • Jiayao Yan

Best Publications

  • Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

    Daniela L. Rus;Michael T. Tolley

  • Resilient, untethered soft robot

    Michael T. Tolley;Robert F. Shepherd;Bobak Mosadegh;Robert J. Wood

  • A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

    Nicholas Warren Bartlett;Nicholas Warren Bartlett;M. T. Tolley;Johannes Tesse bastiaan Overvelde;J Weaver

  • A method for building self-folding machines

    S. Felton;M. Tolley;E. Demaine;D. Rus

  • Soft Robotics: Review of Fluid‐Driven Intrinsically Soft Devices; Manufacturing, Sensing, Control, and Applications in Human‐Robot Interaction

    Panagiotis Polygerinos;Nikolaus Correll;Stephen A. Morin;Bobak Mosadegh

  • Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots

    Benjamin Shih;Dylan S. Shah;Jinxing Li;Thomas George Thuruthel

  • Design, fabrication and control of origami robots

    Daniela Rus;Michael T. Tolley

  • Soft robot perception using embedded soft sensors and recurrent neural networks

    Thomas George Thuruthel;Benjamin Shih;Cecilia Laschi;Michael Thomas Tolley

  • Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer–based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation

    Qiguang He;Zhijian Wang;Yang Wang;Adriane Minori

  • Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling soft-legged robots.

    Dylan Drotman;Saurabh Jadhav;David Sharp;Christian Chan

  • A Soft Robotic Gripper With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive

    Paul Glick;Srinivasan A. Suresh;Donald Ruffatto;Mark R. Cutkosky

  • Translucent soft robots driven by frameless fluid electrode dielectric elastomer actuators.

    Caleb Christianson;Nathaniel N. Goldberg;Dimitri D. Deheyn;Shengqiang Cai

  • Self-folding origami: shape memory composites activated by uniform heating

    Michael T Tolley;Michael T Tolley;Samuel M Felton;Shuhei Miyashita;Daniel Aukes

  • Self-folding with shape memory composites†

    Samuel M. Felton;Michael T. Tolley;ByungHyun Shin;Cagdas D. Onal

  • Pneumatic Energy Sources for Autonomous and Wearable Soft Robotics

    Michael Wehner;Michael T. Tolley;Annan Mozeika;Ye Ding

  • An untethered jumping soft robot

    Michael Thomas Tolley;Robert F. Shepherd;Michael Karpelson;Nicholas W. Bartlett

  • 3D printed soft actuators for a legged robot capable of navigating unstructured terrain

    Dylan Drotman;Saurabh Jadhav;Mahmood Karimi;Philip deZonia

  • Bioinspired soft robots for deep-sea exploration

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  • Robot self-assembly by folding: A printed inchworm robot

    Samuel M. Felton;Michael T. Tolley;Cagdas D. Onal;Daniela Rus

  • Origami-Inspired Printed Robots

    Cagdas D. Onal;Michael T. Tolley;Robert J. Wood;Daniela Rus

  • Application-Driven Design of Soft, 3-D Printed, Pneumatic Actuators With Bellows

    Dylan Drotman;Michael Ishida;Saurabh Jadhav;Michael T. Tolley

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Wood
Robert J. Wood Harvard University
Hod Lipson
Hod Lipson Columbia University
Cagdas D. Onal
Cagdas D. Onal Worcester Polytechnic Institute
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Shengqiang Cai
Shengqiang Cai University of California, San Diego
Robert F. Shepherd
Robert F. Shepherd Cornell University
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James C. Weaver
James C. Weaver Cornell University

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