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  • 01.10.2026

    Four researchers from the Faculty of Engineering receive DKK 9.7 million for bold experiments

    Four researchers from the Faculty of Engineering have received a combined total of almost DKK 9.7 million from Villum Experiment for projects exploring shape-changing materials, automated software repair, new catalysts and quantum-inspired computer hardware.

  • 27.09.2026

    When teaching and research strengthen each other

    Three robotics engineering students turned a bachelor’s project into a peer-reviewed journal article. Their subsequent work has generated further research on assistive and underwater robots. For Associate Professor Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu, the projects show how teaching and research can advance together.

  • 25.06.2026

    SDU researcher develops touch-sensitive robot skin free of electronics

    Arman Goshtasbi from SDU Soft Robotics has, in his PhD, developed a tactile robot skin without any electronics on the sensing site, using fluids in silicone channels. The results was recently published in Nature Communications.

  • 09.12.2025

    Snake robot will navigate Unknown terrain by listening

    The European Research Council has awarded a highly prestigious Consolidator Grant of two million euros (approx. 15 million DKK) to Ahmad Rafsanjani, professor of soft robotics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), for the project “Exploring the Unexplored with a Crawling Soft Robot (METABOA).” His project aims to develop soft crawling robots and teach them to navigate complex terrains using friction — a capability that could unlock opportunities in everything from collapsed buildings to distant planets.

  • 24.04.2024

    Researchers aim to develop new supermaterial for robots

    In a new European doctoral network, researchers from the University of Southern Denmark are working to develop soft materials for robots that can change shape and structure through magnetic fields. This could be used, for example, in robot feet to significantly improve the walking robots' ability to move on different surfaces, as well as in industrial robot grippers for enhancing grasping capabilities.

  • 26.02.2024

    Snake robot could save lives

    Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark are working on a snake robot that can move on uneven terrain and crawl through tiny passages. In the future, the robot could, for example, be used for search and rescue operations after earthquakes.

  • 15.12.2023

    Honorary professor Cecilia Laschi: "For a long time I really wanted to be a dolphin trainer"

    In November 2023, professor Cecilia Laschi was awarded an honorary doctorate at SDU for her outstanding research within bio-inspired robots and soft robotics. We caught her for a quick chat about why she even wanted to become a researcher, and she does when she is not, among many other things, studying the embodied intelligence of octopuses.