IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - March 2017 - 1

Vol. 24, No. 1 MARCH 2017
ISSN 1070-9932
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FEATURES
32 Yale OpenHand Project

Optimizing Open-Source Hand Designs
for Ease of Fabrication and Adoption
By Raymond R. Ma and Aaron M. Dollar

41 Rapidly Prototyping Robots
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Using Plates and Reinforced Flexures

By Ian Fitzner, Yue Sun, Vikram Sachdeva, and S. Revzen

48 The Quest for Natural Machine Motion
An Open Platform to Fast-Prototype Articulated Soft Robots

By Cosimo Della Santina, Cristina Piazza, Gian Maria Gasparri, Manuel Bonilla,
Manuel Catalano, Manolo Garabini, Giorgio Grioli, and Antonio Bicchi

57 The Soft Robotics Toolkit

Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles to the
Wide Dissemination of Soft-Robotic Hardware

By Dónal Holland, Colette Abah, Marielena Velasco Enriquez,
Maxwell Herman, Gareth J. Bennett, Emir Vela, and Conor J. Walsh

65 Spurring Innovation in Spatial Haptics
How Open-Source Hardware Can Turn Creativity Loose
By Michael Yip and Jonas Forsslund

77 Bringing Robotics to Formal Education
The Thymio Open-Source Hardware Robot

ON THE COVER
The open-source movement has already revolutionized a number of industries by empowering
end users to contribute to the products that they
need and want and by fueling grassroots development and continual improvement of projects in
completely new areas.

By Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Fanny Riedo, Manon Briod,
Léa Pereyre, Philippe Rétornaz, and Stéphane Magnenat

86 Do-It-Yourself Design for Social Robots
An Open-Source Hardware Platform to Encourage Innovation

By Cesar Vandevelde, Francis Wyffels, Bram Vanderborght, and Jelle Saldien

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