Robert Katzschmann

Our #IROS2026 paper presents a musculoskeletal hand powered by remote Peano-HASEL actuators: combining soft forearm muscles with a compliant tendon architecture enables safe, dexterous, and sensorless delicate manipulation, like holding a fragile paper balloon 🎈
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.24357
Talk: 2026.ieee-iros.org/program/contri…

Soft robots need shape, material & actuation designed together. Our #IROS2026 paper packs all three into one low-dimensional embedding that works with any black-box simulator: joint co-design beats sequential, with far fewer parameters.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.06497
Talk: 2026.ieee-iros.org/program/contri…

A lecturer at Kyoto University is building the ORCA hand, he says it’s well designed, we are flattered! orcahand.com

Join us May 26, 16:15–17:30 in GLC E 29.2 @ETH for a talk by Prof. Selman Sakar (@EPFL) on harnessing mechanobiology to engineer connective tissues. Learn how robotic microsurgery, microtech & modeling enable biomimetic tissue self-assembly. #ETHZurich #Mechanobiology

Looking forward to give a keynote tomorrow at #ICRA2025 on creating life-like robots based on musculoskeletal designs and living biohybrid technologies.

Join me for the Soft Robotics Keynote Session in the Sidney Marcus Auditorium in Atlanta on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 8:30am (EDT, UTC-4).

Further details: lnkd.in/difvnyTS