Three collaborative journal articles published
Work on embodied physical computing, fiber-network reservoirs, and origami-tentacle grasping appears in leading journals.
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Research milestones and recognition.
Best Poster Award at the Virginia Robotics Symposium
Received the Best Poster Award at the inaugural Virginia Robotics Symposium, where the DARE Lab presented its robotics research.
Keynote talk at an ICRA 2025 workshop
Together with Yogesh Phalak, presented Hyper-Yoshimura geometry and its robotic applications at the Workshop on Multi-Stable and Origami-Based Robotics.
Shape-shifting robotics research featured by Virginia Tech
Contributions to bio-inspired and deployable robotic systems were featured in Virginia Tech News.
Read the Virginia Tech featureGolden Ratio Yoshimura paper published
With Vishrut Deshpande and Yogesh Phalak, published the Golden Ratio Yoshimura study in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
Robotics work presented at SPIE Smart Structures/NDE
Presented research on a self-sustained mechanical oscillator with shape-memory alloy actuation for controller-free locomotion.
First paper on electronics-free robots published
Published a first-author study on self-sustained, coordinated SMA deformations for controller-free locomotion in Advanced Intelligent Systems.