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Overview
Smart textiles with integrated intelligence, including embedded sensing and actuation, are a rapidly emerging interdisciplinary domain with significant potential to advance soft robotics due to both technical and application-based overlaps. Leveraging textile capabilities in mechanical tuning and material integration has enabled soft, stretchable sensors, actuators, and adaptive interfaces, directly enhancing soft robotic technologies. These innovations address long-standing challenges in creating adaptable, responsive, and comfortable interfaces, especially for wearable robotic systems.
This workshop focuses on the critical intersection of smart textiles and soft robotics. By bringing together experts in textile-based sensing, actuation, modeling, manufacturing, and wearables integration with soft roboticists, we will explore how textile innovations can drive advancements in soft robotics, providing flexible, scalable, and multifunctional materials as robotic devices.
Organizers
Vanessa Sanchez
Rachael Granberry
Tess Hellebrekers
Marcia O'Malley
Michelle Yuen
Marquise Bell
Confirmed Speakers
Julianna Abel
Herbert Shea
Edwin Jager
Events include
Presentations by experts in the field
Roundtable discussions
Poster Session, Demo Den, and Integration Stories with prizes!
Interactive workshops on sensors and actuation
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