At the Transformative Robotics Lab we use robotics to develop novel materials through digital fabrication, and use novel materials to enhance robotics

Joined July 2019
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Torque-Transmitting Architected Metamaterials for Flexible and Extendable Tubular Robotics (Jeffery Lipton and co-workers) 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

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That’s a wrap on the @Robotics_Summit ✨ Our final day was packed with highlights — from the Women in Robotics breakfast and the Healthcare Robotics Catalyst Showcase, to Form and Function Robotics Challenge winners announcement. Huge congratulations to Northeastern University for taking 1st place in this year’s Form and Function Challenge! 2nd Place & Audience Choice Award: University of Waterloo 3rd Place: The University of British Columbia Honorable Mention: Boston University🤖
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A new Science #Robotics study describes a #SoftRobot made from connected units called #TRUNCs, which can bend, extend, and twist to work safely alongside humans or close a valve. @JeffreyILipton scim.ag/4iyfFlQ
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Inspired by elephant trunks, scientists have developed a soft, flexible robotic arm that can twist to stiffen, enabling it to manipulate and install a lightbulb. @MITMechE @NortheasternCOE Read more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/4iyfFlQ
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Happy to present our latest paper: Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots science.org/doi/10.1126/scir…
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The Transformative Robotics Lab is grateful for the support from Amazon on developing metamaterial powered robots engr.washington.edu/science-…

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28 Jul 2022
No more grasping at straws on production lines! A new tool developed @UW would allow assembly-line robots' to pick up almost anything. @ME_at_UW @uwcse #SIGGRAPH2022 Read more: washington.edu/news/2022/07/…

ALT A blue 3D-printed bunny sits on a table and a 3D-printed black gripper picks up the bunny and turns it to face the camera

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How to help assembly-line robots shift gears and pick up almost anything doi.org/gqkd39 techxplore.com/news/2022-07-…

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28 Jul 2022
Assembly-line robots are great, but usually at only one thing. A new tool from #UWAllen & @ME_at_UW would enable manufacturers to rapidly get a grip on changing production needs by 3D printing passive grippers customized for various objects. #SIGGRAPH2022 washington.edu/news/2022/07/…

ALT GIF of robot arm affixed to table with 3D-printed gripper on the end with an elongated basket-like shape grips and lifts a 3D-printed shiny blue faceted rabbit figurine, then turns its arm to face the camera while maintaining the rabbit in its grasp

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TransformativeRoboticsLab retweeted
A UW team, including ME Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton & doctoral student Ian Good, created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper & calculate the best path to pick up a variety of objects. Learn more: washington.edu/news/2022/07/… @uwcse @uwengineering
28 Jul 2022
Assembly-line robots are great, but usually at only one thing. A new tool from #UWAllen & @ME_at_UW would enable manufacturers to rapidly get a grip on changing production needs by 3D printing passive grippers customized for various objects. #SIGGRAPH2022 washington.edu/news/2022/07/…

ALT GIF of robot arm affixed to table with 3D-printed gripper on the end with an elongated basket-like shape grips and lifts a 3D-printed shiny blue faceted rabbit figurine, then turns its arm to face the camera while maintaining the rabbit in its grasp

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TransformativeRoboticsLab retweeted
Funding from @NASA will help a team including Carnegie Mellon's @zacinaction and @UW's Jeff Lipton continue their work to design and build foldable structures for space. cmu.is/folding-structures
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We're so excited to be selected by @NASA for a Phase II NIAC award for our work on large expanding space structures with @lab_robotics nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-…

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Very Excited to start work on our Phase II NIAC project on kilometer-scale space structures from a single launch
We're so excited to be selected by @NASA for a Phase II NIAC award for our work on large expanding space structures with @lab_robotics nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-…
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