Group Members
Our team combines expertise in robotics, mechanical engineering, biology, chemistry, material science, computer science, and machine learning to push the boundaries of soft and biohybrid robotics. Get to know the passionate researchers, engineers, and students driving our projects in musculoskeletal robots, muscle technologies, and autonomous systems.
Head
Prof. Dr. Robert Katzschmann
Assistant Professor of Robotics, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich
Administrative Staff
Federica Poltronieri
Administration of the Laboratory
CLA F1.1
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Senior Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Thomas Buchner
Area: 3D Printing Soft Robots and Electrohydraulic Robots
Dr. Miriam Filippi
Area: Biohybrid Robots
PhD Students and Scientific Assistants
Amirhossein Kazemipour
Area: Electrohydraulic Soft Robot Design and Control
CLA F5
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Jaehoon Kim
Area: Integration of sensors with a soft robotic system
CLA F1.1
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Davide Liconti
Area: Learning-Based Design + Control for Robotic Manipulation
CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Manuel Mekkattu
Area: Soft and Biohybrid Robot Modeling
CLA F7
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Denis Tarasov
Area: Reinforcement Learning
Yasunori Toshimitsu
Area: Design and Control of Soft Robotic Systems
CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Chenyu Yang
Area: Learning Representation for Musculoskeletal Robots
External PhD students
Andrea Catalano (Visiting from Politecnico di Milano)
Area: Design of Wearable Soft Robotics Systems(Internship)
CLA F 2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Shota Oba (Visiting from The University of Tokyo)
Area: Biohbybrid Robotics
CLA G 11.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Scientific Staff
Pablo Paniagua
Area: Biohybrid Robotics
Henry Schrader
Area: Soft and Biohybrid Robot Modeling
CLA F7
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Current Students
Boshi An
Master's Thesis
Daniele Berti
Master's Thesis
Alessandro Bretecher
Master's Thesis
Dino Lourenco Claro
Semester Project
Laurent Emmenegger
Bachelor's Thesis
Nicola Fiore
Semester Project
Nicolas Föhn
Bachelor's Thesis
Jaú Gretler
Master's Thesis
Madeleine Gries
Internship
Timm Grigat
Semester Project
Romain Guntz
Semester Project
Diána Hidvégi
Semester Project
Jonas Holinger
Bachelor's Thesis
Maxim Huber
Internship
Simone Ivanov
RobotX Internship
Cornelius Jonsson
Master's Thesis
Filippos Katsimalis
Semester Project
Simone Morandi
Semester Project
Leo Negri
Bachelor's Thesis
Jonas Oertli
Bachelor's Thesis
Philip Pawlowsky
CSE Seminar
Alessandro Pietrogiovanna
Semester Project
Simon Ramchandani
Semester Project
Ilakkiya Ravindrarajah
Semester Project
Arturo Roberti
Master's Thesis
Matteo Rubini
Semester Project
Titus Schmidli
Bachelor's Thesis
Amelie Schopper
Internship
Valentin Simonis
Semester Project
Jan-Micha Sommerfeldt
Semester Project
Marc Stampanoni
Bachelor's Thesis
Kai Stewart
Semester Project
Pascal Strauch
Master's Thesis
Lukasz Szeliga
Semester Project
Risako Tanaka
Semester Project
Nick Truttmann
Semester Project
Vikash Jeyathevan
Semester Project
Leonard Wagner
Semester Project
Melker Wirdheim
Bachelor's Thesis
Nico Züger
Bachelor's Thesis