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  1. Electrofluidic fiber muscles

    Article • Science Robotics, March 2026, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  2. Electroadhesion Suction Cups

    Article • Advanced Materials, April 2025, Wiley

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  3. Actuating droplets with electrowetting: Force and dynamics

    Article • Droplet, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  4. Fiber pumps for wearable fluidic systems

    Article • Science, March 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  5. Electroadhesion zipping with soft grippers on curved objects

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  6. Shielded soft force sensors

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  7. Peeling in electroadhesion soft grippers

    Article • Extreme Mechanics Letters, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  8. Dexterous textile manipulation using electroadhesive fingers

    Article • September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  9. Wireless Electrohydrodynamic Actuators for Propulsion and Positioning of Miniaturized Floating Robots

    Article • Advanced Intelligent Systems, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo, Hiroki Shigemune

  10. Untethered Feel‐Through Haptics Using 18‐µm Thick Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  11. Autonomous oil flow generated by self-oscillating polymer gels

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  12. An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

    Article • Science Robotics, December 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  13. Stretchable pumps for soft machines

    Article • Nature, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  14. Delicate yet strong: Characterizing the electro-adhesion lifting force with a soft gripper

    Article • April 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  15. Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

    Article • Soft Robotics, August 2018, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  16. A review of soft robotic grippers

    Article • Advanced Materials, May 2018, Wiley

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  17. Effect of base rotation on the controllability of a redundant soft robotic arm

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Hiroki Shigemune, Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  18. Swinging paper actuator driven by conduction electrohydrodynamics

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Hiroki Shigemune, Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  19. A comprehensive gaze stabilization controller based on cerebellar internal models

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, October 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  20. Active suction cup actuated by ElectroHydroDynamics phenomenon

    Article • September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Hiroki Shigemune, Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  21. Electrohydrodynamic Conduction Pump with Asymmetrical Electrode Structures in the Microchannels

    Article • Chemistry Letters, July 2017, The Chemical Society of Japan

    Hiroki Shigemune, Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  22. EHD with mobile electrodes propulson

    Article • Advanced Science, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo, Shingo Maeda, Hiroki Shigemune

  23. Printed Paper Robot Driven by Electrostatic Actuator

    Article • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Hiroki Shigemune, Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  24. Discrete Cosserat approach for soft robot dynamics: A new piece-wise constant strain model with torsion and shears

    Article • October 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  25. Model the response of bending fluidic actuators for soft robotics

    Article • Smart Materials and Structures, September 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  26. Stiffening in Soft Robotics: A Review of the State of the Art

    Article • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  27. Dynamic Walking with a Soft Limb Robot

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  28. Comparison of Optimization Algorithms for the Indirect Encoding of a Neural Controller for a Soft Robotic Arm

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Vito Cacucciolo

  29. Evolving Optimal Swimming in Different Fluids: A Study Inspired by batoid Fishes

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matteo Cianchetti, Dr Vito Cacucciolo