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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