Research Overview Wearables & Prosthetics Bioinspired Robots Soft Robots Deployable Robots Soft Robotic Exo-Glove Poly is composed of wearable part and actuation unit. Candidate Dohyeon Pheon · E-mail : kbum34@gmail.com · Research Topic : Soft wearable robots Actuators for Tendon-Driven Soft Wearable Robots Goal To develop a soft wearable robot for the hand that helps Soft Wearable Robot Goal To develop a soft wearable robot for the hand that helps people with spinal

Research Overview Wearables & Prosthetics Bioinspired Robots Soft Robots Deployable Robots Bowden-cable for Soft Robots The reliability of soft robotic devices will be the bottleneck that slows their commercialization issue, since soft robotic structures are constructed with soft material components; these materials actuators to improve the reliability-related properties during the robot design stage, and the life for Soft Robots," The International Journal of Robotics Research. ​

Research Overview Wearables & Prosthetics Bioinspired Robots Soft Robots Deployable Robots Rapid Soft Inspiring the Venus flytrap, we develop a flytrap robot generating a rapid soft morphing locomotion by Using shape memory alloy(SMA), the robot actuates artificial leaves made from asymmetrically laminated Best poster award ​ Seung-Won Kim, Je-Sung Koh, Maenghyo Cho, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Soft morphing of flytrap robot using bending propagating actuation,” Journal of Institute of Control Robotics and Systems (ICROS

Harvard Microrobotics Lab 2007.2 - 2007.5 Post Doc, MIT Research Interest Biologically Inspired Robotics Soft Robotics Soft Wearable Robots Assistive/Rehabilitation Robots Micro Machining Smart Composite Micro Structures Shape Deposition Manufacturing Smart Actuator Awards 2014 IEEE RAS Early Career Award 2014

Research Overview Wearables & Prosthetics Bioinspired Robots Soft Robots Deployable Robots Passive arm The intended goal of the research is to assist workers with frequent use of upper limbs by applying a soft The reaction force generated by the passive spring actuator is “anchored” via the distribution of force Upper limb Related papers and patents Daegeun Park and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Development and evaluation of a soft

Jungmin Ahn, and Kyu-Jin Cho, "Towards Tendon-based Integrated Tracking and Constraining System for a Soft Jeong, Brian Byunghyun Kang, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Investigation of design parameters of slack enabling actuator Useok Jeong, Haemin Lee, Hyunki In, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Control Strategy of Slack Enabling Tendon Actuator Jongwoo Kim, Jesung Koh, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “The analysis on LT SMA wire actuators for medical devices Je-Sung Koh, Jung-hoon Lim and Kyu-Jin Cho, “Toward foldable robot actuated by SMA torsional spring actuator

Research Overview Wearables & Prosthetics Bioinspired Robots Soft Robots Deployable Robots Milli-Scale This work proposes a novel design for a small and lightweight climbing robot that uses a single actuator A quick return leg is designed to enable phase overlap without requiring an extra actuator.

Candidate · E-mail : jpark608 @ snu.ac.kr · Research Topic : Soft Wearable Robots Sojung Yim ​임소정 Ph.D Candidate · E-mail : jaemineom @ snu.ac.kr · Research Topic : Soft robots Hye Ju Yoo ​유혜주 Ph.D. Candidate · E-mail : hyoo1 @ snu.ac.kr · Research Topic : Wearable Robots, Biomedical Robotics, Soft Actuators Jae-Ryeong Choi ​최재령 Ph.D. Candidate · E-mail : wk000106@snu.ac.kr · Research Topic : Soft Robotics Bada Seo ​서바다 Ph.D.

Research Overview Wearables & Prosthetics Bioinspired Robots Soft Robots Deployable Robots An omnidirectional To minimize the mass increase, our strategy was to minimize the number of actuators. Therefore, this robot can perform four functions with only two actuators. ​

Research Overview Wearables & Prosthetics Bioinspired Robots Soft Robots Deployable Robots Bistable jumping jumps when the snap-through of the bistable mechanism occurs, which is triggered by a SMA coil spring actuator

2017-06 Woongbae Kim Jae-Kyeong Kim won 3rd Place at Soft Material Robot Challenge, 2017 ICRA 2017-04 from 23th Samsung Humantech Paper Award with the paper, "Design of Variable Diameter Wheel based on Soft Bug That Leaps and Flips Just Like an Insect 2016-05 Our work is on IEEE SPECTRUM : Video Friday – Soft Cited Article Award. 2014-08 The paper "Self-Folding Origami using Torsion Shape Memory Alloy Wire Actuators 지원센터 주관 노약자/장애인을 위한 보조기기 공모전 2010-11 Best paper award, "Jumping device with shape memory alloys(SMA) actuators

Research Overview Wearables & Prosthetics Bioinspired Robots Soft Robots Deployable Robots Hand assistive However, there are limitations cause from various transmission and actuation methods for high degree We focused on developing a soft wearable device named GRIPIT that enables people with hand paralysis Byungchul Kim, Hyunki In, and Kyu-Jin Cho, “strap driven system for hand soft exoskeleton,” International Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology) · E-mail : kbc1990 at snu.ac.kr · Research Topic : Soft