Prof. Yong-Lae Park and his PhD student Taekyoung Kim from Soft Robotics and Bionics Lab received the Best Conference Paper Award for their research presented during the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2019), held from April 14 to 18, 2019 at COEX, Seoul.

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The title of the research paper is “Design of A Lightweight Inflatable Sensing Sleeve for Increased Adaptability and Safety of Legged Robots.” It was a joint research with the Dynamic Robotics Lab (Prof. Hae-Won Park) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The research proposed an inflatable artificial skin for four-legged walking robots, allowing them to detect the location and magnitude of external stimuli, thereby increasing the safety and adaptability of the robot.