JKU Linz - Somap

15/12/2020

The SoMaP spin-off company sendance has been awarded the prestigious EDISON award in GOLD for the best high-tech innovation in Upper Austria. This came as a pleasant surprise, as we had to pitch in fornt of a high-class jury against a really hard competition.

More details can be found at www.edison-der-preis.at

24/09/2020

Fly-catching-fast soft magnetic robots! Read all about it in our new publication https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-020-00067-1 that was done in collaboration with Denys Makarov at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Congratulation to Guoyong and all the co-authors on this wonderful work!

https://youtu.be/24hk5u9rFVg

Robotic devices that can actuate at high speeds are challenging to achieve. Here, soft robotic devices driven by low magnetic fields show large deformations at frequencies of up to 100 Hz and are capable of a range of motions, including cross-clapping, walking, swimming and closing around a living f...

12/09/2020

Soft robots as elephants? Learn more about our project 'The Elephant in the Room' at the Ars Electronica Festival 2020!
Find us in the LIT Open Innovation Center - Johannes Kepler University Linz.

12/09/2020

Watch Melanie Baumgartner and Florian Hartmann presenting our project for the Ars Electronics festival 2020!

11/09/2020

Come and visit us at this year‘s Ars Electronica festival at the LIT Open Innovation Center – Johannes Kepler University Linz! We are presenting sustainable soft robots at our project ‘The Elephant in the Room’.
https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/the-elephant-in-the-room/

03/09/2020

Come and visit us next week during Ars Electronica Festival 2020 (Sep 9-13) in Open Innovation Center at JKU! Looking forward to seeing you all!

In Kepler’s GardensEine globale Reise zur Vermessung der ‚neuen‘ WeltEine Reise, bei der nicht wir uns auf den Weg machen, sondern unsere Ideen und Projekte, die ein globales Netzwerk aufspannen, in dem wir uns versammeln, um zu diskutieren, was zu tun ist. Autonomy - DemocracyEcol

23/07/2020

"The robots are coming, and you may be able to eat them"
Check out this interview with Melanie and Florian about our newly published research on soft, biodegradable and edible materials for robotics and wearables! https://youtu.be/ekdRTL0Gx-k

Check out the full article here:
https://rdcu.be/b5Nyr

Subscribe to our channel! rupt.ly/subscribe The robots are coming, and you may be able to eat them. Researchers at Austria's Johannes Kepler University (JKU)...

13/07/2020

Sharks and flowers made using soft electromagnetic actuators (SEMAs)! Read more about these amazing shape morphing system made out of silicone and liquid metal in the article by Mao Guoyong in Science Advances! Congratulations to Guoyong and all the co-authors!

Find the full article here:

Rigid electromagnetic actuators serve our society in a myriad of ways for more than 200 years. However, their bulky nature restricts close collaboration with humans. Here, we introduce soft electromagnetic actuators (SEMAs) by replacing solid metal coils with liquid-metal channels embedded in elasto...

15/06/2020

New paper in Nature Materials describing innovative biogel material for soft robots! Congratulations to Melanie Baumgartner and all the others who contributed to this wonderful work!

Check out the article here:
https://rdcu.be/b4UNj

05/06/2020

SOMAP on the cover of Advanced Energy Materials highlighting research about polyHIPE ion conductive structures used in stretchable batteries!

Congrats to the first author Doris Danninger and everyone on the team who contributed to this great work!

Cover:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.202070084

Article:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aenm.202000467

18/05/2020

Check out this wonderful article written by Martin Kaltenrunner and Doris Danninger in Advanced Science News discussing user-friendly medical wearables!

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/magnets-making-medical-wearables-user-friendly/

Corresponding article: Gerald Kettlgruber, et al. ‘Stretch‐Safe: Magnetic Connectors for Modular Stretchable Electronics.’ Advanced Intelligent Systems (2020). DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202000065

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aisy.202000065

30/03/2020

Highlighted in "This month in pictures" and featured on the cover of Advanced Science - A Lesson from Plants: High‐Speed Soft Robotic Actuators!

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/this-month-in-pictures-march/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.201903391