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. Robert Katzschmann

Prof. Dr. Robert Katzschmann
Assistant Professor of Robotics, IRIS, D-MAVT, ETH Zurich


Publications

Administrative Staff

Lina Scarborough

Federica Poltronieri
Administration of the Laboratory

CLA J25
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Senior Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers

Miriam Filippi

Dr. Miriam Filippi
Area: Biohybrid Robots

CLA H23.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Ronan Hinchet

Dr. Ronan Hinchet
Area: Electrohydraulic Actuators and Robotic Systems

CLA H23.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Anhui Wu

Dr. Anhui Wu
Lab Technician/Manager

CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

PhD Students

Deniz Albayrak

Deniz Albayrak
Area: Elecrtric Muscles for Robots

CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Asia Badolato

Asia Badolato 
Area: Biohybrid Robotics

CLA F7
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Aiste Balciunaite

Aiste Balciunaite
Area: Biohybrid Robotics

CLA F1.1
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Thomas Buchner

Thomas Buchner
Area: 3D Printing Soft Robots and Electrohydraulic Robots

Gavin Cangan

Barnabas Gavin Cangan
Area: Soft Robotic Systems

Lewis Jones

Lewis Jones
Area: Biohybrid Robotics

Amir Kazemipour

Amirhossein Kazemipour
Area: Electrohydraulic Soft Robot Design and Control

CLA F5
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Davide Liconti

Davide Liconti 
Area: Learning-Based Design + Control for Robotic Manipulation

CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Mike Yan Michelis

Mike Yan Michelis
Area: Machine Learning

CLA F7
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Elvis Nava

Elvis Nava
Area: Machine Learning for Robotics Manipulation

CLA F10.3
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Yasunori Toshimitsu

Yasunori Toshimitsu
Area: Design and Control of Soft Robotic Systems

CLA F5
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Manuel Wälchli

Daniel Wälchli
Area: Reinforcement Learning in Large-scale Simulations


Chenyu Yang

Chenyu Yang
Area: Learning Representation for Musculoskeletal Robots

CLA F9
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Hehui Zheng

Hehui Zheng
Area: Machine Learning of Robotic Representations

CLA F5
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich, Switzerland

External PhD students

Oliver Neumann

Oliver Neumann

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

 

Jana Egli

Jana Egli

Robotic Materials - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Current Students

Pablo Paniagua

Jose Pablo Paniagua Hernandez

Semester Project

Curdin Cavelti

Curdin Cavelti

Semester Project

Erik Bauer

Erik Bauer

Master's Thesis

Adamya Dhaker

Adamya Dhaker

ETH Robotics Student Fellowship

Aiden Fernandez

Aiden Fernandez Hernandez

Bachelor's Thesis

Patrick Frey

Patrick Frey

Semester Project

Silke Fülster

Silke Fülster

Bachelor's Thesis

Adrian Hess

Adrian Hess

Master's Thesis

Tim Jaros

Tim Jaros

Master's Thesis

 

Marcus Khee Leong

Marcus Khee Ing Leong

Master's Thesis

Minjie Li

Minjie Li

Semester Project 

Yundi Lu

Yundi Lu

Master's Thesis

Robert Malate

Robert Jomar Malate

Semester Project

Giacomo Manzoni

Giacomo Manzoni

Master's Thesis

Hanna Sigurdson

Hanna Sigurdson

Internship 

Robert Steffner

Robert Steffner

Master's Thesis

Nils Trümpler

Nils Trümpler 

Bachelor's Thesis

Sadra Zargarzadeh

Sadra Zargarzadeh

ETH Robotics Student Fellowship

Yundi Lu

Yifan Zhou

Semester Project

Yuning Zhou

Yuning Zhou

Semester Project

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