Design, Control, and Evaluation of a Novel Soft Everting Robot for Colonoscopy - IEEE T-RO

Now that #ICRA2026 is in the books, it's time to celebrate the best of T-RO! Over the next couple of weeks we'll be counting down the 2025 T-RO award winners. Honorable Mention: This paper presents a self-growing soft robotic colonoscope that extends 1.6 m at its tip using the eversion principle, steers pneumatically over +/-180 degrees, and exerts contact forces below 0.3 N. A remarkable combination of soft robotics and medical device design. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/... Authors: Jialei Shi, Korn Borvorntanajanya, Kaiwen Chen, Enrico Franco, and Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena #TRO #BestPaper #HonorableMention #MedicalRobotics #SoftRobotics