Dr. Joscha Teichmann

Projects

Development of a self-contained compliant autonomous machine with endoperoxides as an energy source
My aim is to develop a self-contained compliant autonomous machine with endoperoxides as its energy source. The machine will achieve motion by shape morphing as a result of the release of the oxygen from the endoperoxides. The ultimate goal is to create a small-scale autonomous endoperoxide production system on board of the machine by integrating other cluster projects.

Supervisor

Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck

Joscha Teichmann completed his dissertation in July 2026.

Dissertation: Bioinspired actuators and motion patterns for energy efficient soft autonomous machines and soft robots

Publications in livMatS

• Locomotion analysis of a 3D printed electronics-free peristaltic soft robot
  Das, R.., Teichmann, J., Tauber, F. J., & Speck, T. (2026). Locomotion analysis of a 3D printed electronics-free peristaltic soft robot. Npj Robotics, 4(1), 27. doi: 10.1038/s44182-026-00100-4
• Design and Development of an Electronics-Free Earthworm Robot
  Das, R., Teichmann, J., Speck, T., & Tauber, F. J. (2026). Design and Development of an Electronics-Free Earthworm Robot. In A. Jiménez Rodríguez, R. Mestre, C. Chen, A. Mura, E. Barker, P. Verschure, & T. Prescott (Eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp. 167–178). Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-07448-5_15
• Design and development of an electronics-free earthworm robot
  Das, R., Teichmann, J., Speck, T., & Tauber, F. (2025). Design and development of an electronics-free earthworm robot. Conference Proceedings Paper Living Machines 2025, doi: arXiv.2511.01347
• Toward More Autonomous Soft Robots: Development and Characterization of a 3D-Printed Pneumatic Contact Sensor for a Six-Legged Soft Robotic Walker
  Auth, P., Conrad, S., Knorr, N., Teichmann, J., Ruppert, S., Speck, T., & Tauber, F. (2025). Toward More Autonomous Soft Robots: Development and Characterization of a 3D-Printed Pneumatic Contact Sensor for a Six-Legged Soft Robotic Walker. Advanced Intelligent Systems, e202500430. doi: 10.1002/aisy.202500430
• First Steps of Transferring Animal Strides to a Biomimetic Soft Walker*
  Teichmann, J., Lang, G., Zimmermann, D., Tauber, F. J., Speck, T., & Kruppert, S. (2025): First Steps of Transferring Animal Strides to a Biomimetic Soft Walker. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2025;, icaf050, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaf050
• 3D printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators*
  Conrad, S.⁺, Teichmann, J.⁺, Knorr, N., Bellin, D., Speck, T. & Tauber, F. J. (2024): 3D printed digital pneumatic logic for the control of soft robotic actuators. Science Robotics, 9: eadh4060. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.adh4060
• An insect-inspired soft robot controlled by soft valves*
  Teichmann, J., Auth, P., Conrad, S., Speck, T., & Tauber, F. J. (2023). An insect-inspired soft robot controlled by soft valves. In Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp. 428-441). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38857-6_31
• Novel Motion Sequences in Plant-Inspired Robotics: Combining Inspirations from Snap-Trapping in Two Plant Species into an Artificial Venus Flytrap Demonstrator*
  Tauber, F. J., Auth, P., Teichmann, J., Scherag, F. D., & Speck, T. (2022). Novel motion sequences in plant-inspired robotics: Combining inspirations from snap-trapping in two plant species into an artificial venus flytrap demonstrator. In: Gorb, S.N.; Carbone, G.; Speck, T.; Taubert, A. (eds.): Advances in Biomimetics: Combination of Various Effects at Different Scales. Biomimetics 2023, 8, 329. doi: 10.3390/biomimetics7030099
• Unit Cell Based Artificial Venus Flytrap*
  Tauber, F. J., Riechert, L., Teichmann, J., Poovathody, N., Jonas, U., Schiller, S., & Speck, T. (2022). Unit Cell Based Artificial Venus Flytrap. In: Hunt, A., et al. (eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 1–12), vol 13548. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20470-8_1
  
  
  * Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807
  ⁺ These authors contributed equally to this work