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Nam Gyun Kim

Nam Gyun Kim

Soft Growing Robots Team

Interests
  • Soft Robotics
  • Control Theory
  • Biomimetics
Education
  • Ph.D. Robotics Program, 2026

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  • M.S. Robotics Program, 2022

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  • B.S. Mechanical System Design Engineering, 2020

    Hongik University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Latest Publications

  • A soft growing robotic endoscope for painless and strain-free insertion
  • Self-Wearing Adaptive Garments via Soft Robotic Unfurling
  • Unidirectional virtual inerter for high-bandwidth robot motion control
  • External steering of vine robots via magnetic actuation
  • Inflatable-Structure-Based Working-Channel Securing Mechanism for Soft Growing Robots
  • Self-retractable soft growing robots for reliable and fast retraction while preserving their inherent advantages
  • High-curvature consecutive tip steering of a soft growing robot for improved target reachability
  • Reconfigurable inflated soft arms
  • A soft growing robot using hyperelastic material
  • Virtual inertia as an energy dissipation element for haptic interfaces

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Interactive Robotic Systems (IRiS) Lab,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (W16),
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon,
34141, Republic of Korea

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