Publications

2025

  • Meta-Ori: monolithic meta-origami for nonlinear inflatable soft actuators
    Hugo de Souza Oliveira, Xin Li, Johannes Frey and Edoardo Milana
    arXiv: 2503.23375 (2025)
  • Electropneumatic Oscillators Using Nonlinear Inflatables
    Elias De Smet, Lorenzo Migliorini, Edoardo Milana, Paolo Milani and Benjamin Gorissen
    Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2400695 (2025)
  • Mechanical metamaterial sensors: from design to applications
    Hugo de Souza Oliveira, Niloofar Saeedzadeh Khaanghah, Giulia Elli, Luisa Petti, Giuseppe Cantarella, Edoardo Milana and Niko Münzenrieder
    Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 58, 133002 (2025)

2024

  • Proprioceptive multistable mechanical metamaterial via soft capacitive sensors
    Hugo de Souza Oliveira, Niloofar Saeedzadeh Khaanghah, Martijn Oetelmans, Niko Münzenrieder and Edoardo Milana
    arXiv: 2503.23389 (2024)
  • A bistable pneumatic actuator based on flexible metamaterials
    Anagha Navale, Ritika Gupta, Hugo de Souza Oliveira, Viacheslav Slesarenko and Edoardo Milana
    In ACTUATOR 2024: International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuator Systems and Applications, Wiesbaden, Germany, pp. 245-248 (2024)

2023

  • Nonlinear Inflatable Actuators for Distributed Control in Soft Robots
    Bert Van Raemdonck, Edoardo Milana, Michael De Volder, Dominiek Reynaerts and Benjamin Gorissen
    Advanced Materials 35, 35 (2023)
  • Artificial Cilia–Bridging the Gap with Nature
    Sam Peerlinck, Edoardo Milana, Elias De Smet, Michael De Volder, Dominiek Reynaerts and Benjamin Gorissen
    Advanced Functional Materials 33, 32 (2023)
  • Out-of-Plane Soft Lithography for Soft Pneumatic Microactuator Arrays
    Edoardo Milana, Benjamin Gorissen, Eline De Borre, Frederik Ceyssens, Dominiek Reynaerts and Michael De Volder
    Soft Robotics 10, 1 (2023)
  • FONS: a Python framework for simulating nonlinear inflatable actuator networks
    Arne Baeyens, Bert Van Raemdonck, Edoardo Milana, Dominiek Reynaerts and Benjamin Gorissen
    In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1–6 (2023)

2022

  • Towards enduring autonomous robots via embodied energy
    Cameron A. Aubin, Benjamin Gorissen, Edoardo Milana, Philip R. Buskohl, Nathan Lazarus, Geoffrey A. Slipher, Christoph Keplinger, Josh Bongard, Fumiya Iida, Jennifer A. Lewis and Robert F. Shepherd
    Nature 602 (2022)
  • Soft robotics for infrastructure protection
    Edoardo Milana
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9 (2022)
  • Towards Half-moon-shaped Soft Pneumatic Cilia
    Edoardo Milana, Sam Peerlinck, Sean Flaherty, Dominiek Reynaerts and Benjamin Gorissen
    In 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 681–686 (2022)
  • Monolithic Three-Dimensional Functionally Graded Hydrogels for Bioinspired Soft Robots Fabrication
    Marco Piazzoni, Elisa Piccoli, Lorenzo Migliorini, Edoardo Milana, Federica Iberite, Lorenzo Vannozzi, Leonardo Ricotti, Irini Gerges, Paolo Milani, Claudia Marano, Cristina Lenardi and Tommaso Santaniello
    Soft Robotics 9, 2 (2022)
  • Morphological Control of Cilia-Inspired Asymmetric Movements Using Nonlinear Soft Inflatable Actuators
    Edoardo Milana, Bert Van Raemdonck, Andrea Serrano Casla, Michael De Volder, Dominiek Reynaerts and Benjamin Gorissen
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI 8 (2022)

2021

  • Model-Based Control Can Improve the Performance of Artificial Cilia
    Edoardo Milana, Francesco Stella, Benjamin Gorissen, Dominiek Reynaerts and Cosimo Della Santina
    In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 527-530 (2021)

2020

  • Shaping soft robotic microactuators by wire electrical discharge grinding
    Edoardo Milana, Mattia Bellotti, Benjamin Gorissen, Jun Qian, Michaël De Volder and Dominiek Reynaerts
    Micromachines 11, 7 (2020)
  • Metachronal patterns in artificial cilia for low Reynolds number fluid propulsion
    Edoardo Milana, Rongjing Zhang, Maria Rosaria Vetrano, Sam Peerlinck, Michael De Volder, Patrick R. Onck, Dominiek Reynaerts and Benjamin Gorissen
    Science Advances 6, 49 (2020)
  • Fabrication of High-Aspect-Ratio Cylindrical Micro-Structures Based on Electroactive Ionogel/Gold Nanocomposite
    Edoardo Milana, Tommaso Santaniello, Paolo Azzini, Lorenzo Migliorini and Paolo Milani
    Applied Nano 1, 1 (2020)
  • EELWORM: a bioinspired multimodal amphibious soft robot
    Edoardo Milana, Bert Van Raemdonck, Kevin Cornelis, Enrique Dehaerne, Jef De Clerck, Yarno De Groof, Toon De Vil, Benjamin Gorissen and Dominiek Reynaerts
    In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), New Haven, CT, USA, pp. 766-771 (2020)
  • Advances in soft robot actuation and their morphological control
    Edoardo Milana, Bert Van Raemdonck, Sam Peerlinck, Dominiek Reynaerts and Benjamin Gorissen
    In 20th International Conference and Exhibition of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN), Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 1-2 (2018)

2019

  • Precise bonding-free micromoulding of miniaturized elastic inflatable actuators
    Edoardo Milana, Mattia Bellotti, Benjamin Gorissen, Michael De Volder and Dominiek Reynaerts
    In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Seoul, South Korea, pp. 768-773 (2019)
  • Artificial Soft Cilia with Asymmetric Beating Patterns for Biomimetic Low-Reynolds-Number Fluid Propulsion
    Edoardo Milana, Benjamin Gorissen, Sam Peerlinck, Michael De Volder and Dominiek Reynaerts
    Advanced Functional Materials 29, 22 (2019)
  • Hardware Sequencing of Inflatable Nonlinear Actuators for Autonomous Soft Robots
    Benjamin Gorissen, Edoardo Milana, Arne Baeyens, Eva Broeders, Jeroen Christiaens, Klaas Collin, Dominiek Reynaerts and Michael De Volder
    Advanced Materials 31, 3 (2019)

2018

  • Lithographic production of vertically aligned CNT strain sensors for integration in soft robotic microactuators
    Benjamin Gorissen, Edoardo Milana, Dominiek Reynaerts and Michael De Volder
    In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Livorno, Italy, pp. 400-405 (2018)
  • Design of a bi-segmented soft actuator with hardware encoded quasi-static inflation sequence
    Edoardo Milana, Benjamin Gorissen, Michael De Volder and Dominiek Reynaerts
    In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Livorno, Italy, pp. 108-113 (2018)
  • Design and characterization of soft microactuators based on interconnected pneumatic networks
    Edoardo Milana, Mattia Bellotti, Shashwat Kushwaha, Benjamin Gorissen and Michaël De Volder
    In 18th International Conference and Exhibition of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN), Venice, Italy, pp. 1-2 (2018)
  • Wire electrical discharge grinding of micro rods for bonding-free fabrication of soft pneumatic microactuators
    Mattia Bellotti, Edoardo Milana, Benjamin Gorissen, Jun Qian and Dominiek Reynaerts
    In 18th International Conference and Exhibition of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN), Venice, Italy, pp. 1-2 (2018)
  • Artificial Pneumatic Cilia
    Benjamin Gorissen, Edoardo Milana, Michael De Volder and Dominiek Reynaerts
    In Atlas of Cilia Bioengineering and Biocomputing, 5 (2018)