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Research Areas
- Biohybrid Robotics
  - Sinergia - Bioxolography
  - Biohybrid Swimmers Blend Biology and Robotics for Living Locomotion
  - Cardiac Tissue Engineering
  - Larger Bio-actuators: Engineered Tissue Upscaling with Perfusable Design Criteria and Microfluidics
  - Tissue-embedded Sensors for Intelligent Bio-actuators
  - Out of the Petri Dish: Bio-hybrid Robots Operative in Cell-Extreme Conditions
- Design and Fabrication
  - Vision Controlled Jetting for Robots
  - Replicating Human Anatomy with Vision Controlled Jetting
  - SoPrA: Soft Continuum Robotic Arm with Proprioceptive Sensing
- Modeling and Control
  - Learning Dexterous Manipulation
    - Learning Hand Action Embedding
    - Learning Hand Action Embedding
  - Multiphysics
  - Robotic Control
  - Inverse Problems
- Machine Learning
  - Vision-Based Online Key Point Estimation of Deformable Robots
  - Fast Point Cloud to Mesh Reconstruction for Deformable Object Tracking
  - Learning-based Surrogates for Complex Physics
Research Platforms
- Vision Controlled Jetting – Contactless 3D Inkjetting
  - Vision Controlled Jetting for Robots
  - Replicating Human Anatomy with Vision Controlled Jetting
- Biohybrid Robots and Systems
  - Biohybrid Swimmers Blend Biology and Robotics for Living Locomotion
  - Tissue-Integrated Sensing and Control
  - Muscle-Tendon Units
  - Cardiac Tissues with Complex, Controlled Anisotropy
  - Bioxolography
  - Tissue Perfusion Strategies for Larger Bio-actuators
  - Reinforced Cardiac Tissue Patches using Metamaterials
  - Soft Robots for Bacterial Cancer Therapy
  - Injectable Hydrogels for Minimally Invasive Medicine
- Electrohydraulic Musculoskeletal Systems
  - Electrohydraulic musculoskeletal robotic leg
  - Low-voltage electrohydraulic actuators for untethered robotics
  - Self-Sensing Feedback Control of an Electrohydraulic Robotic Shoulder
  - High-Frequency Capacitive Sensing for Electrohydraulic Soft Actuators
- Real-time Object Reconstruction
  - Vision-Based Online Key Point Estimation of Deformable Robots
  - Fast Point Cloud to Mesh Reconstruction for Deformable Object Tracking
- Soft Robotic Hands
  - Biomimetic Hand
  - Somatosensitive Soft Robotic Fingers
  - Proprioceptive Grasping Robot Hand
  - Printable Hydraulics
  - Task-defined Pulley Design for Nonlinearly Coupled Tendon-driven Actuation
  - Multi-tap Resistive Sensing and FEM Modeling enables Shape and Force Estimation in Soft Robots
  - Get the Ball Rolling: Learning Dexterous Policies for Robotic Hands
- Learning Dexterous Manipulation
  - Learning Hand Action Embedding
  - Pretrained Representations for Dexterous Imitation Learning
- Robotic Simulation
  - SRL-Sim
  - Residual Physics
  - Aquarium
- Flying Soft Robots
  - Flying Soft Robotic Gripper
  - Autonomous Vision-based Rapid Aerial Grasping
  - Raptor: Flying Soft Robotic Gripper
  - Flying Soft Robotic Gripper
  - Flying Soft Robotic Arm
  - Raptor: Flying Soft Robotic Gripper
- Soft Robotic Fish
  - Differentiable Swimmer Optimization
  - Hydraulic Soft Robotic Fish
  - Cyclic Actuation
  - Remote Control
  - Electrostatic Soft Robotic Fish
- Soft Robotic Arms
  - Dynamically Controlled Closed-Loop Robots
  - Dynamic Motion Control of Robots
  - Adaptive Dynamic Sliding Mode Control of Soft Continuum Manipulators
  - SoPrA: Soft Continuum Robotic Arm with Proprioceptive Sensing
  - Model-Based Disturbance Estimation for a Fiber-Reinforced Soft Manipulator using Orientation Sensing
- Haptic Display
  - Time-of-Flight with Soft Tactile Displays for Visually Impaired
  - Vision-based Feedback System for the Visually Impaired
Education
- Student Projects
- Soft and Biohybrid Robotics Course
- Real World Robotics Course
- Focus Projects
- Engineering with Living Materials Lecture Series
- Distinguished Seminar in Robotics, Systems and Control (151-0623-00)
- Studies on Mechatronics
- Seminar Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) in Robotics
- RobotX Student Opportunities
Publications
- Journal Articles
- Conference Papers
- Thesis Works