News
A collection of exciting news concerning the people and work happening in the lab.
2024-December-12
We are pleased to share that our conference paper, “Needle Selection in a Miniature Robotic Penetration System for Biomedical Applications,” has been chosen as the Finalist of Best Paper Award in Automation at The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO 2024).
Congratulations to Yuxuan, Ruomao, Zihan, and Chunyu!
2024-September-5
Mr. Yuxuan Xiang was awarded the Institutional Research Tuition Scholarship and Outstanding Academic Performance Award. Mr. Ruomao Liu was awarded the Research Tuition Scholarship.
Here is the link to the available scholarships.
2021-October-25
Prof. Metin Sitti published a blog on the forum of the community of Device & Materials Engineering (Nature), featuring our Nature Communication paper titled “Shape-programmable liquid crystal elastomer structures with arbitrary 3D director fields and geometries” (link).
Here is a link to the blog.
2021-July-28
Our paper titled “Wirelessly actuated thermo- and magneto-responsive soft bimorph materials with programmable shape-morphing” is chosen as the back cover art of Advanced Materials!
Here is a link to the cover introduction.
2021-July-5
Our work reported in our recent paper titled “Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly” is featured in a German c’t magazine!
Here is a link to the article.
2021-May-28
Our paper titled “Wirelessly actuated thermo- and magneto-responsive soft bimorph materials with programmable shape-morphing” is now published online on Advanced Materials!
Here is a link to the paper.
2021-April-30
Our paper titled “Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly” is featured in Video Friday of IEEE Spectrum!
Here is a link to the report.
2021-April-29
Our paper titled “Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly” is featured in a report by the media group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems!
Here is a link to the report.
2021-April-28
Our paper titled “Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly” is featured in a Focus article on Science Robotics!
Here is a link to the report.
2021-April-28
Our paper titled “Voxelated three-dimensional miniature magnetic soft machines via multimaterial heterogeneous assembly” is now published online on Science Robotics!
Here is a link to the paper.
2021-February-22
Our paper titled “Liquid crystal elastomer-based magnetic composite films for reconfigurable shape-morphing soft miniature machines” is chosen as the front cover art of Advanced Materials!
Here is a link to the cover introduction.
2021-January-14
Our paper titled “Liquid crystal elastomer-based magnetic composite films for reconfigurable shape-morphing soft miniature machines” is now published online on Advanced Materials!
Here is a link to the paper.