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Qiukai Qi, Zhongkui Wang, Zhe Qiu, Hongying Zhang, Jonathan Rossiter, Emanuela Del Dottore, Barbara Mazzolai, Moslem Mohammadi, Ali Zolfagharian, Shakti Singh, Jinhwan Yoon, Milena Machado, Florian Hartmann, Jackson K Wilt, Mady Corrigan, R J Wood, Lara S. Laamari, Hedan Bai, Bokeon Kwak, Dario Floreano, Zhong Wang, Chao Tang, Huichan Zhao, David Hardman, Fumiya Iida, Valerio Francesco Francesco Annese, Alberto Scaccabarozzi, Adrica Kyndiah, Mario Caironi, Ayoub Zumeit, Ravinder Dahiya, Kevin Holdcroft, Yusuf Furkan Kaya, Pham Huy Nguyen, Mirko Kovac, Shengbo Guo, Tarun Agarwal, Lijie Grace Zhang, Chen Xin, Li Zhang (2026). Roadmap on sustainable soft robotics by additive manufacturing. In Smart Mater. Struct..

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Xiaoxian Xu, David Hardman, Fumiya Iida (2026). Economy of Touch - Task-Driven Information Selection in Tactile EIT-based Robotic Sensing. In Adv. Intell. Syst..

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Kiyanoush Nazari, Yunqi Huang, David Hardman, Fumiya Iida, Thomas George Thuruthel (2026). Touch with Insight - Physics-Aware Data-Driven Learning for EIT-Based Tactile Sensing. In ICRA 2026 (accepted).

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Ignacio Cuiral-Zueco, David Hardman, Michele Pierallini, Erfan Shahriari (2026). The Language of Deformation - Semantic Failure Analysis as a Prerequisite for Dexterous Manipulation of Deformable Objects. In ERF 2026 (accepted).

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Xiaoxian Xu, Catherine Merchant, Michael Ishida, David Hardman, Fumiya Iida (2025). In-Situ Classification of Soil Types Exploiting Electrical Impedance Tomography with a Robotic Actuating Probe. In IROS 2025.

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Arsen Abdulali, David Hardman, Yue Xie, Fumiya Iida (2025). Enhancing Electrical Impedance Based Deformation Sensing with Dielectric Current Guide. In Adv. Electron. Mater..

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David Hardman, Benhui Dai, Qinghua Guan, Antonia Georgopoulou, Fumiya Iida, Josie Hughes (2025). Automated Benchmarking of Variable-Property Soft Robotic Fingertips to Enable Task-Optimized Sensor Selection. In Adv. Sci...

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Dhruv Trehan, David Hardman, Fumiya Iida (2025). Soft Shear Sensing of Robotic Twisting Tasks using Reduced-Order Conductivity Modelling. In Sensors.

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Zixi Chen, Di Wu, Qinghua Guan, David Hardman, Federico Renda, Josie Hughes, Thomas George Thuruthel, Cosimo Della Santina, Barbara Mazzolai, Huichan Zhao, Cesare Stefanini (2025). A Survey on Soft Robot Adaptability - Implementations, Applications, and Prospects. In IEEE RAM.

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David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Fumiya Iida (2025). Multimodal Information Structuring with Single Layer Soft Skins and High-Density Electrical Impedance Tomography. In Sci. Robot..

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Yunqi Huang, David Hardman, Christopher Bascucci, Frank Clemens, Thomas George Thuruthel (2025). Design and Modelling of Electrical Impedance Tomography-based 3D-Printed Patterned Soft Tactile Skins. In Robosoft 2025.

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Lorcan Nicholls, David Hardman, Fumiya Iida (2024). Multi-touch Recognition of Hydrogel-based E-skins using Real-world EIT Datasets. In Robosoft 2024.

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David Hardman, Fumiya Iida (2024). Controllable Wound Closure in Artificial Skins using Dual-Layer Bioinspired Mechanism. In Robosoft 2024.

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Parth Potdar, David Hardman, Elijah Almanzor, Fumiya Iida (2024). High-Speed Tactile Braille Reading via Biomimetic Sliding Interactions. In IEEE RA-L.

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Aleix Costa Cornellà, David Hardman, Leone Costi, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche, Fumiya Iida (2023). Variable sensitivity multimaterial robotic e-skin combining electronic and ionic conductivity using electrical impedance tomography. In Sci. Rep..

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David Hardman, Fumiya Iida (2023). How to Fool Your Robot - Designing Exploitable Sensory Systems. In IOP Conf. Ser. Mater. Sci. Eng..

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Julie Legrand, Arsen Abdulali, David Hardman, Seppe Terryn, Bram Vanderborght, Fumiya Iida (2023). Autonomous Testing of the Repeatable Healability of Pneumatic Self-Healing Soft Actuators. In Robotics Reports.

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Antonia Georgopoulou, David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Fumiya Iida, Frank Clemens (2023). Sensorized Skin with Biomimetic Tactility Features based on Artificial Crosstalk of Bimodal Resistive Sensory Inputs. In Adv. Sci...

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Sojiro Sugiura, David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Fumiya Iida (2023). Closed-loop Optimization of Soft Sensor Morphology by Using 3-D Printing of Electrically Conductive Hydrogel. In Adv. Intell. Syst...

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Naoki Tano, Ryman Hashem, David Hardman, Fumiya Iida (2023). Variable Response Characteristics of a Soft Sensorized Hydrogel using Mesoscale Cellular Structures. In Robosoft 2023.

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David Hardman, Ryman Hashem, Fumiya Iida (2023). Composite Stretchable Sensors for the Detection of Asymmetric Deformations in a Soft Manipulator. In Robosoft 2023.

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David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Fumiya Iida (2023). Tactile Perception in Hydrogel-based Robotic Skins using Data-Driven Electrical Impedance Tomography. In Mater. Today Electronics.

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Yichen Cai, David Hardman, Fumiya Iida, Thomas George Thuruthel (2023). Design and Development of a Hydrogel-based Soft Sensor for Multi-Axis Force Control. In ICRA 2023.

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Seppe Terryn, David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Ellen Roels, Fatemeh Sahraeeazartamar, Fumiya Iida (2022). Learning-Based Damage Recovery for Healable Soft Electronic Skins. In Adv. Intell. Syst...

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David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Antonia Georgopoulou, Frank Clemens, Fumiya Iida (2022). 3D Printable Soft Sensory Fiber Networks for Robust and Complex Tactile Sensing. In Micromachines.

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David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Fumiya Iida (2022). Self-healing ionic gelatin/glycerol hydrogels for strain sensing applications. In NPG Asia Mat..

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David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Fumiya Iida (2022). Manipulation of free-floating objects using Faraday flows and deep reinforcement learning. In Sci. Rep..

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David Hardman, Josie Hughes, Thomas George Thuruthel, Kieran Gilday, Fumiya Iida (2021). 3D Printable Sensorized Soft Gelatin Hydrogel for Multi-Material Soft Structures. In IEEE RA-L.

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David Hardman, Thomas George Thuruthel, Fumiya Iida (2020). Towards Growing Robots - A Piecewise Morphology-Controller Co-adaptation Strategy for Legged Locomotion. In TAROS 2020.

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