Functional Apparel Design

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...

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...