The conference recognizes outstanding contributions through the following awards.

Paper Awards

Paper awards are selected based on comments from reviewers and Associate Editors, as well as the actual quality of the papers.

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award recognizes a paper that represents the highest overall quality and contribution to the field, based on originality, technical soundness, impact, and clarity.
For this award, one paper will receive the award, and two additional papers will be recognized as Honorable Mentions.

Winner

• Benjamin Calmé, Sukjun Kim, Tania K. Morimoto, Valdastri Pietro,
  “Pressure-free Magnetic Soft Growing Robot with Real-Time Shape Control and Sensing for Biome Sampling”

Finalists

• Wang Peiyi, Paul A. M. Lefeuvre, Shangwei Zou, Zhenwei Ni, Daniela Rus, Cecilia Laschi,
  “Adaptive and Multi-object Grasping via Deformable Origami Modules”
• Joel Kemp, Andre Farinha, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti, David Howard, Josh Pinskier,
  “Programmable Telescopic Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Deployable and Shape Morphing Soft Robots”
• Annan Zhang, Hanna Matusik, Miguel Flores-Acton, Emily R. Sologuren, Joshua Jacob, Daniela Rus,
  “Printed helicoids with embedded air channels make sensorized segments for soft continuum robots”

Best Student Paper Award

The Best Student Paper Award recognizes an outstanding paper primarily authored by a student, demonstrating high research quality, and originality.
For this award, one paper will receive the award, and two additional papers will be recognized as Honorable Mentions.

Winner

• Tianyu Yu, Hajun Lee, Lining Yao,
  “BiEOP: A Bistable, Soft Actuator Driven by Electroosmotic Pumps”

Finalists

• Guillaume Duret, Frederik Heller, Danylo Mazurak, Alap Kshirsagar, Tim Schneider, Florence Zara, Jan Peters, Liming Chen,
  “Real-Time Simulation of Deformable Tactile Sensors and Objects in Robotic Grasping using Graph Neural Networks with Inductive Biases”
• Mohammad Rafiee Javazm, Sonika Kiehler, Van Ho, Farshid Alambeigi,
  “Design and Characterization of a Vibration-Driven Pufferfish-Inspired Inflatable Soft Robot for Pipe Inspection”
• Neera Raychaudhuri, Seola Lee, Mady Corrigan, Hanna Sigurdson, Franklin Dai-Kong Ho, Peisheng He, Katia Bertoldi, Robert Wood,
  “Built to Die: Bioinspired Locomoting Robot with Programmed End-of-Life Biodegradation”

Best Young Researcher Paper Award

This award recognizes an outstanding paper whose first author is an early career researcher, and demonstrates research quality comparable to a Best Paper–level contribution.

Winner

• Jacob Bee, Helmut Hauser, Rui Wu,
  “Soft Proprioception in the Frequency Domain via Tube Resonance”

Best Reproducibility Paper Award

This award recognizes papers that demonstrate outstanding reproducibility, including clarity of methodology, availability of data or code, and ease of replication.

Winner

• Sehui Jeong, Magaly Cristal Aviles, Athena Xiao-Tong Naylor, Cynthia Sung, Allison Okamura,
  “Design and Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Knitted Fabrics for Soft Robotics”

Finalists

• Jacob Bee, Helmut Hauser, Rui Wu,
  “Soft Proprioception in the Frequency Domain via Tube Resonance”
• Jiale Zhi, Zhichao Zhu, Siqi Wang, Haoyuan Xu, Shuyong Zhao, Bocheng Tian, Ronghai Hu, Liewei Huang, Li Wen,
  “A Net-Winged Midge Larvae-Inspired Multimodal Perching Device for Quadrotor Drones”

Best Extended Abstract Award

This award recognizes an outstanding extended abstract submission based on its originality, clarity, and technical quality.

• Yuxuan Wang, Antonio E. Forte, Michael Gomez,
  “Harnessing out-of-plane rotation in kirigami metamaterial for robotic application”

Poster & Demo Awards

Best ZooQuarium Award

Winner

• Maxence Corailler, Félix Vanneste, Christian Duriez,
  “FoamBot: An Additively Manufactured Foam Soft Robot Manipulator with Integrated Conductive Sensors for Shape Estimation”

Finalists

• Tianyu Yu, Hajun Lee, Lining Yao,
  “BiEOP: A Bistable, Soft Actuator Driven by Electroosmotic Pumps”
• Taro Saito, Natsuki Tsushima, Fujio Tsumori,
  “Actuation of Artificial Cilia Using a Satellite Magnetic Field-Driven System”

Best Poster Award

Winner

• Huishi Huang, Jack Klusmann, Haozhe Wang, Shuchen Ji, Fengkang Ying, Yiyuan Zhang, John Nassour, Gordon Cheng, Daniela Rus, Jun Liu, Marcelo H Ang Jr, Cecilia Laschi,
  “Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Grasping in Augmented Reality via Rigid-Soft Robot Synergy”

Finalists

• Hanqi Lou, Ying Shu, Jianlin Yang, Zhangxi Zhou, Mark Runciman, George Mylonas,
  “Soft Pop-up Serial Robot with Cable-Hydraulic Hybrid Actuation for Advanced Endoscopy”
• Gayatri Indukumar, Muhammad Awais, Diana Cafiso, Matteo Lo Preti, Lucia Beccai,
  “Surface-based Manipulation Using Tunable Compliant Porous-Elastic Soft Sensing”

Competition Awards

In-Pipe Locomotion Competition

• 1st Place: Sustech Crawler (Southern University of Science and Technology)
  Yu Tianyi, Shi Liwei, Sun Ruixin, Wang Haoxiang, Chen Yiyang, Wang Hongqiang, and Wang Ting
• 2nd Place: Imperial Gast (Imperial College London)
  Jialei Shi and Sara S Khan

Harvesting of Delicate Ripe Fruits Competition

• 1st Place: Chill Gripper
  Angelo Catalano, Elisabetta Annese, Giuseppe Macchia, and Luca Mitaritonna (Politecnico di Bari)
• 2nd Place: ROtated-based Soft grippEr (ROSE) (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  Nguyen Thanh Khoi and Nguyen Duy Long
• 3rd Place: Artichoke Gripper (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  Nguyen Duy Long, Nguyen Thanh Khoi, and Duong Van Tan

Art Gallery Awards

Image of Distinction Award

• Manvi Saxena, Yihao Geng, Jason Brown, Daniel Newman, Cameron Aubin
  “Spark of color”

Creative Distinction Award

• S.G. van Dipten, B. Lau, D. Chan, E.L. Doubrovski, R.B.N. Scharff
  “The breath of a GRACE”