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Soft Machines Lab @SoftMachinesLab
Joined July 2018
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Podcast on Paleobionics highlighting our work on using soft robotics to "resurrect" extinct organisms like the pleurocystites: ai.cmu.edu/podcast/all-episo…

S1 Episode 13: Paleobionics: Dinosaurs Are Back

Listen to the Where What If Becomes What's Next Podcast Season 1 Episode 13.

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Article related to our recent collaborative paper with colleagues @ZJU_China in Science Robotics on "Magnetically driven soft robot achieves high-speed jumping" techxplore.com/news/2024-09-… via @techxplore_com

Magnetically driven soft robot achieves high-speed jumping

Many animal species, ranging from insects to amphibians and fish, use jumping as a means of moving within their surrounding environment. Jumping can be very advantageous for these animals, for...

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Next Byte episode on our work on a battery-free PulseOx powered with body heat: the-next-byte-wevolver.simpl… You can find the original journal article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @NextBytePodcast @CMU_Mech @AdvSciNews

The Next Byte

In this episode, we explore the first healthcare device powered by body heat, made possible with liquid-based metals and discover how this innovative technology is paving the way for sustainable and...

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Our recent paper with Seung Hwan Ko's lab at Seoul National University made the inside cover of Advanced Materials. You can read more about the SNU-led study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @SeungHwanKo1

A Gradient Stiffness‐Programmed Circuit Board by Spatially Controlled Phase‐Transition of Superco...

Stretchable Electronics A major challenge in stretchable electronics integration is the stress concentration that occurs at the interface of rigid chips and soft conductors. Article number 2313344...

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Akhil's project on head-worn robotic interface for assisting a stroke patient reported @PittsburghPG post-gazette.com/news/health…

CMU students test their robotic interface, living with a man with quadriplegia

The device allows users to control a robot using the tilt of a head or voice recognition, rather than strictly handheld controls.

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Akhil Padmanabha@PadmanabhaAkhil
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Our research won a Best Paper Award at HRI 2024! Henry Evans, an individual with quadriplegia, used our wearable HAT (Head-Worn Assistive Teleoperation) interface with @hellorobot Stretch in a 7-day in-home study to complete 32 self-care/household tasks. sites.google.com/view/hat2-t…
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Article @arstechnica on Rhombot robot inspired by the 500 million year old Pleurocystitid echinoderm: arstechnica.com/science/2024… Full article in PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306580… @CMU_Mech

Researchers resurrect long-extinct fossil creature as a robot

Robot designed to mimic enigmatic sea creature can help us understand how it moved.

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Article @CBC on wearable sensor for tracking itch in patients with eczema. cbc.ca/news/health/itch-seco… Read more about the study with @ZackoryErickson @CMU_Robotics and Sonal Choudhary @UPMC in Nature Communications Medicine: arxiv.org/abs/2302.03813

Feeling itchy? Scientists are working to unravel the mysteries behind chronic itch | CBC News

Why is itching contagious? Why do we keep scratching ourselves, beyond when it helps? Scientists are still unravelling the head-scratcher of itching — from how hard we scratch the skin to neurons in...

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Article @sciam on a paleo-inspired robot for studying the locomotion of extinct echinoderms. Nice work by Richard Desatnik and Zach Patterson in collaboration with Phil Leduc, Sam Zamora, and Pen Gorzelak! @CMU_Mech scientificamerican.com/artic…

Robotics 'Revives' a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor

Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved

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Prof. Majidi quoted in article on Shape-Shifting Robots builtin.com/robotics/shape-s… @BuiltIn @CMU_Mech

What Are Shape-Shifting Robots? | Built In

Inspired by the sea cucumber’s ability to melt on demand, shape-shifting robots can phase-change from solid to liquid — then back again.

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Prof. Majidi has been recognized with a 2023 Inno Fire Award for Trailblazing Innovators: bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/i… via @PittsburghInno @Arieca_Inc @CMU_Mech

2023 Inno Fire Awards, Trailblazing Innovators: Carmel Majidi, Arieca, ESTAT Actuation and Lifeware...

Meet Carmel Majidi, co-founder and CTO at Arieca; co-founder of ESTAT Actuation; and co-founder and chief science officer of Lifeware Labs, and one of our 2023 Inno Fire Awards Trailblazing Innovat...

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SML research highlighted in new article @CACMmag on "A Softer Approach to Robotics | News" cacm.acm.org/news/276269-a-s… @CMU_Mech
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Crawling soft robot with gecko-inspired sticky feet developed by SML member Peter Roberts and Sampada Acharya engineering.cmu.edu/news-eve… #cmu #engineering via @CMUEngineering

So tricky, a robot can do it

Carnegie Mellon Researchers have taken inspiration from geckos to create a material that adheres to wet and dry surfaces, even on an incline.

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Prof. Majidi interviewed for an article in Scientific American on self-healing machines: scientificamerican.com/artic…, Self-Healing Machines Are Among Us via @sciam @CMU_Mech

Shape-Shifting, Self-Healing Machines Are Among Us

Electronics that can bend, stretch and repair themselves could potentially work in applications ranging from tougher robots to smart clothes

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We are very proud of our lab members! Nolen Keeys awarded 1st place at AMSM 2022 for his work "Toward New and Efficient Small-Scale Actuators: Investigating Magnetic Thin-Film Deformation Using the Zero-Power Bistable States of an Electromagnet Magnet"
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Great catching up with Mike Bartlett @SMSLaboratory , Wanliang Shan, Eric Markvicka @emarkvicka , and Pratik Khandagale at SES 2022 @TAMU @SocEngScience
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Majidi interviewed in Scientific American article on robot skin: "Electronic Skin Lets Humans Feel What Robots Do--And Vice Versa" scientificamerican.com/artic… via @sciam @CMU_Mech

Electronic Skin Lets Humans Feel What Robots Do--And Vice Versa

An integration of soft materials, sensors and flexible electronics is bringing robotic “skin” closer than ever to reality

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Article @techxplore_com about our recent paper in Advance Materials in which we combine liquid crystal elastomer and soft thermoelectrics for actuation, cooling and energy conversion for soft robotics techxplore.com/news/2022-05-… @AdvSciNews @CMU_Mech

Team develops mechanism to control actuation, cooling and energy conversion for soft robotics

The shape memory polymers known as liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are increasingly popular for uses in soft robotics, haptics, and wearable computing. Functioning as actuators, they can allow...

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Paper with Chris Tabor @AFResearchLab and Kaushik Sengupta @EPrinceton on Stretchable Microwave Transmission Lines using Liquid-Metal Embedded Elastomers in Advanced Engineering Materials. @AdvSciNews onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Majidi quoted in Lifewire article on "Why We Need AI-Powered Robot Hands" lifewire.com/why-we-need-ai-… @lifewiretech
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