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Low-profile folding mechanism for multi-DoF feedback control

An ultra-thin, modular pneumatic system with integrated sensing and transmission enables precise control of folding structures, offering a scalable solution for reconfigurable robots with complex geometries. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

Semi-Autonomous Robotic Assistance for Gallbladder Retraction in Surgery

Jamie Paik

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

A Plug-and-Play Pneumatic Supply System

Jamie Paik

Soft robots utilize pneumatic actuation due to its high power density, ability to undergo large deformations, large force outputs, and compliance, which enables safe and flexible interactions between the robots and their environments. High frequency actuat ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

CPG-Based Manipulation With Multi-Module Origami Robot Surface

Jamie Paik

Robotic manipulators often face challenges in handling objects of different sizes and materials, limiting their effectiveness in practical applications. This issue is particularly pronounced when manipulating meter-scale objects or those with varying stiff ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Reconfigurable Haptic Feedback: Comprehensive Design and Control Framework

Jamie Paik

Haptic interfaces enhance the virtual reality experience by emulating real‐world touch‐based interactions and delivering tactile feedback, while also supporting rehabilitation through interactive systems that speed up recovery. However, current haptic tech ...

Wiley2025

Introduction to Soft Robotics

Jamie Paik

2024

SORI: A softness-rendering interface to unravel the nature of softness perception

Jamie Paik, Mustafa Mete, Hwayeong Jeong

Tactile perception of softness serves a critical role in the survival, well-being, and social interaction among various species, including humans. This perception informs activities from food selection in animals to medical palpation for disease detection ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

Project-Based Learning Approach for an Engineering Course: Challenges and Learnings of Teaching Transversal Skills

Jamie Paik, Iris Capdevila Tristan, Yousef Jalali

Project-based learning (PBL), as one of the effective teaching and learning approaches in engineering education, can create opportunities for students to address problems with real-world applications, integrate and apply knowledge, and practice and develop ...

European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)2024

Text-to-Microstructure Generation Using Generative Deep Learning

Jamie Paik

Designing novel materials is greatly dependent on understanding the design principles, physical mechanisms, and modeling methods of material microstructures, requiring experienced designers with expertise and several rounds of trial and error. Although rec ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Data-Driven Kinematic Modeling of Physical Origami Robots

Jamie Paik, Mustafa Mete

Origami-inspired structures facilitate the design of compliant and compact robots. However, physical origami robots possess inherent material compliance and mechanical imperfections, presenting challenges in modeling and redundant actuation for accurate co ...

2024

Hand and face somatotopy shown using MRI-safe vibrotactile stimulation with a novel soft pneumatic actuator (SPA)-skin interface

Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar

The exact somatotopy of the human facial representation in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) remains de-bated. One reason that progress has been hampered is due to the methodological challenge of how to apply automated vibrotactile stimuli to face area ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Sensorless force and displacement estimation in soft actuators

Jamie Paik, Sagar Dattatray Joshi

Sensing forms an integral part of soft matter based robots due to their compliance, dependence on loading conditions, and virtually infinite degrees of freedom. Previous studies have developed several extrinsic sensors and embedded them into soft actuators ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Morphological flexibility in robotic systems through physical polygon meshing

Jamie Paik, Christoph Heinrich Belke, Kevin Andrew Holdcroft, Alexander Thomas Sigrist

Shape-changing robots adapt their own morphology to address a wider range of functions or environments than is possible with a fixed or rigid structure. Akin to biological organisms, the ability to alter shape or configuration emerges from the underlying m ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Dynamic Modeling of an Origami Prismatic Joint

Jamie Paik, Jian-Lin Huang, Mustafa Mete

Dynamic modeling of folding joints is critical for predicting dynamic behavior, optimizing design parameters, and developing control strategies for origami robots and machines. Although kinematics of the folded joints exists, little research describes thei ...

IEEE2023

Earwig-inspired foldable origami wing for micro air vehicle gliding

Jamie Paik, Risa Ishiguro

Foldable wings serve as an effective solution for reducing the size of micro air vehicles (MAVs) during non-flight phases, without compromising the gliding capacity provided by the wing area. Among insects, earwigs exhibit the highest folding ratio in thei ...

Frontiers Media Sa2023

Ultra-tunable bistable structures for universal robotic applications

Jamie Paik, Ke Liu, Xin Tong, Lei Wang, Hongying Zhang, Yongkang Jiang

Bistable structures in nature are unparalleled for their fast response and force amplification even with the most minute physical stimula-tion. However, current works on bistable structures mainly focus on their stable states, while promising intermediate ...

CELL PRESS2023

Multi-modal deformation and temperature sensing for context-sensitive machines

Jamie Paik, Fabio Zuliani, Sagar Dattatray Joshi, Neil Chennoufi, Robert Lawrence Baines

Owing to the remarkable properties of the somatosensory system, human skin compactly perceives myriad forms of physical stimuli with high precision. Machines, conversely, are often equipped with sensory suites constituted of dozens of unique sensors, each ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Device and system as human interactive surface

Jamie Paik, Fabio Zuliani

A force-feedback surface that creates and modulates distinctive profile and stiffnessto interact with a user in contact thereto, the surface being functionally independentto be used as a single module but can be customized to extend the application indiver ...

2023

Electromagnetic actuator design for distributed stiffness

Jamie Paik, Fabio Zuliani

Origami robots characterized by rigid plates linked together with flexible joints have inherent compliance and large deformations. Their low-profile design and folding mechanical transmissions provide substantial force and torque, especially for wearables ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Modulo Cellulo: Modular Versatile Tangible Educational Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jamie Paik, Hala Khodr, Kevin Andrew Holdcroft, Barbara Bruno

This article presents the novel modular version of the robotic platform Cellulo, a versatile handheld robot initially designed as an educational robot. The use of Cellulo in different contexts and applications over the years has highlighted the need for mo ...

2022