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Assisting Locomotion Autonomous soft exosuit for human augmentation Medical translational research with ReWalk Surgical Tools EndoMODRA Upper Extremity Assistance Grip Glove Biomechanics Scientific research with stroke patients Running Augmentation Cardiac devices Cardiac compression sleeve RVAD Engineering Education DEFT Soft Robotics Toolkit Functional Apparel Design Textile exosuit design Materials Library

Cardiac compression sleeve
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2015

E. Roche et al.,
“A Light-Reflecting Balloon Catheter for Atraumatic Tissue Defect Repair”, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 7, no. 306, p. 306ra149, 2015, doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2406.
E. Roche et al.,
“A Light-Reflecting Balloon Catheter for Atraumatic Tissue Defect Repair”, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 7, no. 306, p. 306ra149, 2015, doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2406.

2018

D. Holland, S. Berndt, M. Herman, and C. Walsh,
“Growing the Soft Robotics Community Through Knowledge-Sharing Initiatives”, Soft Robotics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 119–121, 2018.
D. Holland, S. Berndt, M. Herman, and C. Walsh,
“Growing the Soft Robotics Community Through Knowledge-Sharing Initiatives”, Soft Robotics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 119–121, 2018.

Grip Glove
Hand weakness affects over 6.7 million persons in the United States; this significant source of disability can affect daily life through impairing abilities to perform tasks such as eating and drinking, personal hygiene or dressing. A multitude of...
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Soft robotic direct cardiac compression devices
In the United States, the lifetime risk of developing heart failure is roughly 20%. The current clinical standard treatment is implantation of a ventricular assist device that contacts the patient’s blood and is associated with thromboembolic events...
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Materials library
The Soft Robotics Material Catalog lives in the Bioinspired Apparel Design and Sewing Studio a part of the Biodesign Lab. The catalog highlights a variety of commercially manufactured and custom developed materials: knits, wovens, nonwovens, high friction...
Materials Library

Textile Exosuit Design
Our lab creates innovative textile components based upon human biomechanics and anatomy. These wearable garments provide provide means to transmit assistive torques to a wearer’s joints without the use of rigid, external structures. To perform well, these...
Functional Apparel Design

Soft robotic ventricular assist devices with septal bracing
Existing soft robotic ventricular assist devices for heart failure typically wrap around the heart to provide biventricular assistance without engaging the interventricular septum. This thick muscular wall that separates the right and left ventricles and...
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Ankle Exosuit for use in Post-Stroke Gait Rehabilitation
We are developing clothing-like, soft wearable robots that use textiles to generate forces in parallel with the human musculature. In addition to augmenting the capabilities of able-bodied individuals, these devices have tremendous applications as...
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Autonomous soft exosuit for human augmentation
For centuries, engineers have proposed different devices to augment basic human locomotion, such as walking and running. However, as humans are highly optimized to move efficiently, it is known to be hard further improving one’s energy economy with...
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Scientific research with stroke patients
Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability in the U.S., with 80% of survivors having locomotor impairments despite extensive therapy. These locomotor impairments cause more than 50% of stroke survivors to ambulate at a speed slower than that...
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Running augmentation
While promising proof-of-concept results highlighting the benefits of hip exoskeletons have been shown, there remains much scope to explore how to provide the best assistance to each individual for a wide range of dynamic activities (e.g. walking, running...
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DEFT Project
The Design Evaluation and Feedback Tool (DEFT) is a custom-built web-based system that collects and reports data to support teaching, learning and research in project-based engineering design education. The system is intended to support educators in...
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2018

Y. Ding, M. Kim, S. Kuindersma, and C. J. Walsh,
“Human-in-the-loop optimization of hip assistance with a soft exosuit during walking”, Science Robotics, vol. 3, no. 15, p. eaar5438, 2018.
Y. Ding, M. Kim, S. Kuindersma, and C. J. Walsh,
“Human-in-the-loop optimization of hip assistance with a soft exosuit during walking”, Science Robotics, vol. 3, no. 15, p. eaar5438, 2018.

MedEXO
Stroke-induced hemiparetic gait is characteristically slow and metabolically expensive. Passive assistive devices such as ankle-foot orthoses are often prescribed to increase function and independence after stroke; however, walking remains highly impaired...
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Soft Inflatables
This wearable robot combines two types of soft textile pneumatic actuators which were custom developed for this particular application to support the upper arm through shoulder abduction and horizontal flexion/extension. The advantage of a textile-based...
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Smart Surgical End-Effectors
The small scale of minimally-invasive surgical procedures presents significant challenges to developing robust, smart, and dexterous tools and end-effectors for manipulating millimeter and sub-millimeter anatomical structures (e.g. vessels or nerves) and...
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Cranial Drill
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2017

C. J. Payne et al.,
“An Implantable Extracardiac Soft Robotic Device for the Failing Heart: Mechanical Coupling and Synchronization”, Soft Robotics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 241–250, 2017.
C. J. Payne et al.,
“An Implantable Extracardiac Soft Robotic Device for the Failing Heart: Mechanical Coupling and Synchronization”, Soft Robotics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 241–250, 2017.
E. T. Roche et al.,
“Soft robotic sleeve supports heart function”, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 9, no. 373, 2017.
E. T. Roche et al.,
“Soft robotic sleeve supports heart function”, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 9, no. 373, 2017.

2015

E. Roche et al.,
“Design And Fabrication Of A Soft Robotic Direct Cardiac Compression Device”, in Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2015), Boston, MA, 2015.
E. Roche et al.,
“Design And Fabrication Of A Soft Robotic Direct Cardiac Compression Device”, in Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2015), Boston, MA, 2015.
M. A. Horvath, E. Roche, D. M. Vogt, D. Mooney, F. Pigula, and C. Walsh,
“Soft Pressure Sensing Sleeve For Direct Cardiac Compression Device”, in Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2015), Boston, MA, USA, August 2-5, 2015.
M. A. Horvath, E. Roche, D. M. Vogt, D. Mooney, F. Pigula, and C. Walsh,
“Soft Pressure Sensing Sleeve For Direct Cardiac Compression Device”, in Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2015), Boston, MA, USA, August 2-5, 2015.