Barclay Jumet

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Barclay Jumet is pioneering the future of soft robotics and wearable technology, with a focus on creating comfortable, textile-based systems that eliminate the need for bulky, rigid power supplies. His major contributions include the development of a wearable, textile-based pneumatic energy harvesting system that extracts power from a user’s foot strike, a breakthrough for assistive robotics that has garnered 98 citations. Jumet also co-authored a highly influential data-driven review of soft robotics (85 citations), which has helped shape the field’s trajectory. His work on “logic-enabled textiles” (78 citations) introduces a sheet-based logic architecture, enabling fully textile-based smart wearables. Notably, Jumet contributed to the creation of a four-legged soft robot that walks and reacts to obstacles using a soft pneumatic control circuit, marking a step toward autonomous soft robots. With additional work on low-cost sequential compression therapy devices and sheet-based fluidic diodes, Jumet’s research consistently pushes the boundaries of soft, autonomous, and wearable robotic systems, demonstrating high impact and practical applications in healthcare and assistive technology.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A wearable textile-based pneumatic energy harvesting system for assistive robotics

   98 citations · 2022
2. 2
   A Data‐Driven Review of Soft Robotics

   85 citations · 2021
3. 3
   Logic-enabled textiles

   78 citations · 2022
4. 4
   Pneumatic soft robots take a step toward autonomy

   45 citations · 2021
5. 5
   A low-cost wearable device for portable sequential compression therapy

   14 citations · 2022
6. 6
   Sheet‐Based Fluidic Diodes for Embedded Fluidic Circuitry in Soft Devices

   6 citations · 2024
7. 7
   Programmable failure in heat-sealable sheet-based fluidic devices

   4 citations · 2025
8. 8
   Sheet‐Based Fluidic Diodes for Embedded Fluidic Circuitry in Soft Devices

   2 citations · 2024

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