The exhibition featured prototypes and interactive installations at the crossroads of science, engineering, and design. 2/2

#EuroEAP2025 #electroactivepolymers #artificialmuscles #textileinnovation #activematerials

What better way to end a conference day than with an art exhibition?

“When Soft Actuators Meet Textiles” ⚡️🧵 — co-organised by #EuroEAP2024 and the EU project SoftWEAR — transformed the University of Arts Linz into a space where smart materials, soft robotics, and textile innovation converged. 1/2

Next year’s edition? EPFL, Neuchâtel 2026 — here we come! 🇨🇭 2/2

The EuroEAP Society is entirely run by its members — and on Tuesday afternoon, the Annual Society Meeting brought everyone together for lively debates, creative brainstorming, democratic voting, and planning ahead. 1/2

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From self-healing materials for lithium-ion battery cells 🔋, to power-dense electrostatic actuators for outer space 🪐 applications, and wearable tactile 🫵
displays for VR environments — what a stunning diversity of research projects! 2/2

Here are some more snapshots from the first day of the Conference. Countless inspiring poster, lightning talk, and demo contributions. 1/2

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Thank you to all three speakers for their inspiring contributions and their shared vision for the future of soft active materials. 3/3

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Prof. Giacomo Moretti from Uni Trento discussed how electro-mechanical dynamics can expand the performance envelope of EAP devices.

And Prof. Jürgen Maas from TU Berlin reflected on material choices and scalable fabrication approaches for multilayer dielectric elastomer transducers. 2/3

The invited talks of Day 1 at #EuroEAP2025 offered a focused cross-section of ongoing advances in soft EAP devices.

Prof. Fabien Sorin from EPFL introduced strategies for integrating electronic functionality into fibers through thermal drawing. 1/3

It’s exciting to see so many familiar and new faces gathered in Linz for this unique conference at the forefront of electromechanically active polymers and soft transducers. 4/4

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The scientific program started with a keynote by Prof. Iain Anderson from University of Auckland @aucklanduni.bsky.social on the physics behind stretchable sensors. 3/4

Prof. Ingrid Graz, Chair and host of this year’s edition, followed with warm and inspiring remarks—setting the tone for three days of deep scientific exchange, creative ideas, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. 2/4

We’ve launched #EuroEAP2025 at Johannes Kepler University Linz @jku.at!

The conference was opened by the President of JKU, Prof. Stefan Koch, welcoming the international community of researchers working at the intersection of soft intelligent materials and artificial muscle technologies. 1/4

🔗 Further info on the openings and the application process can be found below:

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The respective projects aim to develop novel bone-forming biohybrid soft materials for soft (micro-)robotics and soft actuators based on pneumatics and electroactive polymers for wearables to exert artificial touch for pain relief.

PhD student in Applied Physics

There are two exciting PhD positions open in Prof. Edwin Jager's lab at the Linköping University @liu.se.

#AcademicOpenings #SensorsAndActuatorSystems #LinkopingUniversity

🔗 Further info on the opening and the application process can be found here 👉 liu.se/en/organisat...

The project aims to develop guidewires and catheters that will be bent upon electrical stimulation in order to help surgeons to position and navigate them accurately and easily, reducing complexity, time and cost of surgeries towards less invasive surgeries with improved patient outcome.

Open positions at IFM Learn more about open job and scholarship positions at IFM.

Prof. Jose G Martinez's lab SAS - IFM in the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) of Linköping University @liu.se is looking for a motivated postdoctoral scholar to join the project “Electronically steerable guidewires”.

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Find the official call document as well as the enrolment forms on our website 🔗: tinyurl.com/f47pa7tw

#EuroEAP #SocietyChallenge2025

The 8th annual EuroEAP Society Challenge is open for enrolment! The Challenge is a great opportunity to showcase innovative applications of soft smart materials and soft transducers at the upcoming EuroEAP Conference 2025 in Linz, Austria.

This project won 3rd place in the EuroEAP Society Challenge 2024! The publication is now online in the journal Device.

Project video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEvU...

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A robotic and virtual testing platform highlighting the promise of soft wearable actuators for wrist tremor suppression Nearly 80 million people in the world deal with medical conditions that cause involuntary periodic movements known as tremors. Wearable soft robotic d…

A new paper by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the University of Tübingen and the University of Stuttgart introduces a platform for testing the suppression of involuntary human tremor with the help of artificial muscles.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A PhD position in Soft Actuators for facial reanimation is available at EPFL

The Integrated Actuators Laboratory (LAI) and the Center of Artificial Muscles (CAM) are looking for a PhD student interested in developing soft actuators for facial movement restoration.

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We are excited to announce that registrations for EuroEAP 2025 – 13th International Conference on Soft Transducers and Electromechanically Active Polymers in Linz, Austria on June 10th-12th are now open!

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