Rachael Granberry
Papers
7
Total Citations
572
H-Index
6
About
Rachael Granberry is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics, smart textiles, and wearable technology, whose work has fundamentally advanced how engineered fabrics can restore and augment human function. Her research focuses on harnessing the unique mechanical properties of knit, woven, and nonwoven textiles to create pneumatic actuators, assistive devices, and self-fitting wearables that conform intelligently to the human body. Granberry's most impactful contribution — a fabric-based soft robotic glove for spinal cord injury rehabilitation — has garnered 245 citations, demonstrating the real-world clinical relevance of her engineering innovations. Her complementary work on exploiting textile mechanical anisotropy for pneumatic actuators (212 citations) established foundational design principles now widely adopted across the soft robotics community. She has further distinguished herself by integrating shape memory alloys, including NiTi-based materials, into functionally graded knitted actuators that dynamically adapt to individual body topographies — a breakthrough for continuous health monitoring, wearable robotics, and haptic feedback systems. With over 570 total citations and contributions spanning assistive technology, e-textiles, and auxetic materials, Granberry represents a new generation of researchers transforming passive garments into intelligent, body-responsive systems with meaningful human health applications.
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Top Papers
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- 2Exploiting Textile Mechanical Anisotropy for Fabric-Based Pneumatic Actuators212 citations · 2018
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- 43D knit pneumatic actuators for wearable haptic displays9 citations · 2023
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- 6Active-Contracting Variable-Stiffness Fabrics for Self-Fitting Wearables9 citations · 2018
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