Nienke Reitsma not only has great scientific ideas; she also presents them very well! At the Soft Robotics for Healthcare Network (SoRoH) conference, Nienke received the ‘Best Oral Presentation Prize’ …
Giel Keijsers Title: Strong light-matter interactions in coherently driven open-access optical cavities Date: November 4 How can you influence the behavior of light using light itself? In his thesis Giel …
Katharina Till - Cotranslational Folding and Assembly at the Single-Molecule Level – September 18 During her doctoral research in the Biophysics group of Sander Tans, Katharina studied the dynamics of protein folding and the …
Alberto Comoretto and his colleagues in the Soft Robotic Matter group at AMOLF have created soft robots that can remember past events - without using computers or electronics. Instead, their …
AMOLF group leader Bas Overvelde and his collaborators working on the Holland Hybrid Heart project have developed a new concept for a total artificial heart with several significant advantages. This …
Breakthrough in heart technology: prototype of first soft robotic artificial heart
An international team of researchers with AMOLF group leader Bas Overvelde, has taken the first steps towards developing a new type of artificial heart that combines soft robotics with advanced …
A research team from AMOLF created a soft robot that walks, hops, and swims — all without a brain, electronics, or AI. Just soft tubes, air, and some clever physics.
Discovery unlocks new exotic properties for soft robotics, smart devices, and more. When you pull something—like a rubber band—you expect it to get longer. But what if it did the …
Bas Overvelde shows soft robots on TV program ‘Het Klokhuis’
On January 2, group leader Bas Overvelde appeared on the TV program Het Klokhuis. In the program, which is aimed at children, Bas explained what soft robots are and what …
Bas Overvelde in radio broadcast on: how soft robots can save lives
What do a ketchup bottle and balloons have to do with robots? That was the opening question of an NPO Radio 1 broadcast in which Bas Overvelde, leader of AMOLF's …
