Bas Overvelde

Our perspective "Bio-inspired autonomy in soft robots" has just been published with @SpringerNature in Nature Communications Materials. Open access: rdcu.be/dUwT9 Organ(ism)s 🦠🐇🌿🫀interact with their environment, so should robots🤖! @BasOvervelde @_amolf

Discover how connected but independent units find their way toward the light without communicating! The article published in Advanced Functional Materials explains how cooperation emerges from implicitly shared information. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🏆 We won the 1st prize at @IEEERoboSoft competition "Democratization of soft robotics through embodied intelligence." Our soft robot Tubot costs only 3$ and harnesses environmental interactions and light sensing to achieve autonomous phototaxis. Simple robot, complex behaviors!

Discover how interacting with a soft hysteretic valve can shift it from oscillation to pressure regulation!💨 In the Journal of Fluids and Structures, we explain this phenomenon with a coupled model. I co-first authored with @LuukVanLaake🤝🏻 ✉️@BasOvervelde sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great to see this work published! Congrats to @ShiboZou @softrobotmatter and the rest of the team @_amolf @TUeindhoven @tudelft. For an overview of the work, see this short movie 🤖🦑youtu.be/6x7N_1Pf9d0?si…

Today the ⁦⁦@hetklokhuis⁩ team from the Dutch national television came to our ⁦@softrobotmatter⁩ lab to shoot an episode on #softrobots. A great way to inspire the next generation! Stay tuned🤖🐙👩‍🔬👨‍🔧👩‍🏫👨‍⚕️⁦@_amolf⁩

Great to help out @NEMOamsterdam with their workshops and exhibits to bridge science to the future generation of engineers and scientists! The @softrobotmatter helped develop part of an interactive exhibit that looks at how bio-inspiration can lead to innovation 🦑🤖👩‍🔧👨‍🔬 @_amolf

Interested to work in a multidisciplinary consortium on a soft artificial heart? The @softrobotmatter group @_amolf is hiring a PhD-student and Postdoc to continue the work on soft circuits and muscles in the hydraulic domain! amolf.nl/research-group…👩‍💻🤖 youtu.be/wHYL4cFTAY0?si…

Our design student Katrien van Riet is showcasing our soft circuits toolkit as part of the @TUeindhoven drivers for change at the #DutchDesignWeek #ddw23. Find us from 21-29 October at #strijps 🤖🦑 @softrobotmatter @_amolf

Enjoying the broadness of views on the interface between the digital and the living, at the #convergence2023 in vienna! Looking forward to the discussions during coffee and with the public tonight. Amazing to speak at such a historic setting @oeaw @softrobotmatter

A crowded lab is a happy lab! 🔧🤖🧪🐙 @_amolf

One of the many circuits that were build today by the visitors of the Eindhoven Makerfaire. Meet us again tomorrow! ⁦@_amolf⁩ ⁦@TUeindhoven⁩ ⁦@EHVMMF⁩ ⁦@softrobotmatter⁩

Fantastic to have been nominated for the innovation award at the Eindhoven Makerfaire, with our soft robotics toolkit! eindhoven.makerfaire.com/?lang=en%3Cbr Want to learn more? Softmodbot.com

Excited to be at the Eindhoven Makerfaire with our Soft Fluidic Toolkit. Kids of all ages can experiment, build and interact with our pneumatic circuits to learn about technology and electronics! Play is the best way to learn! ⁦@tue⁩ ⁦@_amolf⁩ ⁦@softrobotmatter⁩

Ecstatic beyond words to share that our #HollandHybridHeart team has been awarded a mind-blowing 11 million euros to develop a soft robotic heart! ❤️🔬 Grateful for the funding and eager to revolutionize the field of cardiology with this game-changing innovation. 🚀

Poetry meets physics. Two AMOLF scientists express their feelings about the PhD journey. Turning to physics for poetic inspiration! Watch the performance of Falco Bijloo and Nelson de Gaay Fortman at Physics@Veldhoven 2023 vimeo.com/manage/videos/…

Are you looking for a tenure-track group leader position at a welcoming and supportive research institute? AMOLF is hiring! Have a look at our theory vacancy.... amolf.nl/jobs/tenure-tr…

Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium ⁦@UTwente⁩ ⁦@AliSade83700364⁩ was a success! Great interaction in a growing community. For my students it was especially rewarding 🥇🥈😉⁦@softrobotmatter⁩ ⁦@_amolf⁩ ⁦@alb_comoretto⁩ ⁦@ShiboZou

Removing support material in 3D-printed soft robotics is usually a hassle… but what if you leave it in? In our recent work, we EMB3D print soft devices with shape memory using the support as the transmission fluid! w/@CorentinCoulais & @BasOvervelde doi.org/10.1002/aisy.2…