ALT Professor Ryan Truby, and students Alexander Kane and Eric Yang received a DARPA Director’s Fellowship, supporting development of next-generation soft, flexible batteries through Truby’s Robotic Matter Lab.

ALT “It’s a step toward smarter, more versatile materials that can do things traditional systems simply can’t.” A research team with Professors Wei Chen and Ryan Truby harnessed physics, computation, and 3D printing to autonomously produce materials that change shape on demand.

ALT Professor Ryan Truby reimagined a soft materials course by integrating cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, providing students with hands-on experience in additive manufacturing.

ALT A team with Northwestern Engineering students took the highest honor at NASA’s 2024 annual BIG Idea Challenge forum, winning the prestigious Artemis Award.

ALT Screenshot of journal webpage for the paper, including its title "Materializing autonomy in soft robots across scales," as well as the paper authors, Thomas Berrueta, Ryan Truby and Todd Murphey. The image also includes a part of Figure 2 of the main text, which provides example of the differences between control-first and task-first design methodologies.