Roboticist working on soft robotics, reconfigurable robots, artificial muscle, dynamics and control
Joined August 2022
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How can a flying robot perch onto a tilted surface? Usually, precise control is needed to align the drone's orientation with the surface, but our design itself can compensate for the misalignment. Just fly toward the surface, and it perches.
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9 May 2025
We developed a tunable perching mechanism for aerial robots using a bistable mechanism Shape Memory Alloy actuators. It enables fast, robust perching on smooth, tilted surfaces—no precise orientation control needed.
#Robotics #AerialRobots #SoftRobotics #Drones #Perching
8 May 2025
This aerial robot lands and attaches to surfaces using a tunable perching mechanism.
This design adapts to varying contact speeds and misalignments, expanding applications in environmental monitoring and infrastructure inspection.
Find out more: ow.ly/wpup50VOwKH
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Jianguo Zhao retweeted
3 Nov 2024
Multiple TT positions in engineering using artificial intelligence. Come work at #CSU in a great city and with awesome colleagues! Colorado State University | Engineering with Artificial Intelligence Assistant/Associate Professor - All Fields jobs.colostate.edu/postings/…
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18 Aug 2024
Have you ever played with a slap bracelet? From a straight shape, it quickly curls around your wrist.
Using this concept, we've developed bistable grippers that automatically close upon contact. Check it out here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract…
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Jianguo Zhao retweeted
18 Oct 2023
But have you ever seen a robot do this?
@CSUMechEngr develops morphing robots with gripping, climbing, and flattening capabilities that mimic natural organisms. 🤖🦾 col.st/5NJ50
#UnitedinDiscovery | #ResearchCSU
@CSUEngineering @ColoradoStateU
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Jianguo Zhao retweeted
28 Sep 2023
.@JiefengS, @Zhao_Robotics et al. from @ColoradoStateU @CSUEngineering @CSUMechEngr propose an embedded method, enabling robots to adapt to environments or tasks by changing their #morphologies through embedded #actuation, #sensing, and #shape locking.
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27 Sep 2023
Excited to announce our results on shape-morphing robots, published in @NatureComms: rdcu.be/dm9DN
Special gratitude to my exceptional students: @JiefengS, soon-to-be Assistant Professor at ASU, and E. Lerner, B. Tighe, and C. Middlemist.
#Robot #research #morphing
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Jianguo Zhao retweeted
1 Mar 2023
Engage your curiosity. Check out mechanical engineering at Colorado State University. 👩🏾🏭👨🏼🔧👩🏻🔬🧑🏽🚀 youtu.be/eMn2-jqNScI
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27 Jan 2023
A great opportunity for undergraduate students!
26 Jan 2023
2023 Summer Research and Graduate School Preparation Program with @CSUMechEngr
Applications Deadline: Monday, January 30, 2023 ! 👀
engr.colostate.edu/me/srp/
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Jianguo Zhao retweeted
6 Dec 2022
Multimodal Robot Enabled by Origami-Inspired Modules
Check out the paper published in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics: wevlv.co/3Fu61jz
Full video: wevlv.co/3F8KWd5
Credit: Zhe Chen, Brandon Tighe, @Zhao_Robotics, Adaptive Robotics Lab at @ColoradoStateU
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28 Nov 2022
We developed a robot that can reconfigure itself to walk, crawl, grasp, and climb by using origami-inspired modules youtu.be/sSZaOLFihLM via @YouTube
Jianguo Zhao retweeted
31 Oct 2022
We're hiring non-tenure track faculty! Come join the Department of Mechanical Engineering, one of the largest majors at Colorado State University.
Click on the link below to apply! buff.ly/3FoDxYQ
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19 Sep 2022
A new application for soft robots: droplet manipulation!
Our recent research with Prof. Arun Kota at NCSU has been published in Materials Horizons @MaterHoriz @ncstatemae @JiefengS
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