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7
Total Citations
296
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About
Jisen Li is a pioneering researcher in soft robotics, with a focus on bioinspired systems, dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs), and soft sensors. Their most impactful work, "A Soft Jellyfish Robot Driven by a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator" (2016, 246 citations), introduced a novel undersea robot that mimics jellyfish propulsion using muscle-like DEAs—a breakthrough that opened new avenues for soft, silent underwater exploration. Li’s contributions extend to advancing soft capacitive sensors, as demonstrated in their 2025 study on fully 3D-printed sensors with high toughness and a large measurement range (28 citations), addressing critical durability issues in wearable and robotic applications. They have also innovated in paper-based origami transducers (2021) that combine sensing and actuation, and developed high-frequency soft logic gates (2025) for reconfigurable electronics, pushing the speed limits of soft computing. Li’s modeling work on viscoelastic DEAs using sparse identification methods (2022–2025) provides foundational tools for controlling complex soft actuators. Their bioinspired antagonist-agonist artificial muscles for humanoid eyeball motions (2022) further showcases their talent for translating biological principles into functional robotic systems. With over 300 total citations, Li is shaping the future of soft, adaptive machines.
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- 1A Soft Jellyfish Robot Driven by a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator246 citations · 2016
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- 3Paper-based origami transducer capable of both sensing and actuation11 citations · 2021
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- 5Soft reconfigurable logic gates with high-frequency electrical switching3 citations · 2025
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