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Evan's PhD Defense

Congratulations to Evan Strasnick on successfully defending his dissertation! Evan defended his doctoral thesis titled, ‘Facilitating Analog Circuit Design and Debugging with Instrumented, Programmable Hardware’. Read more details

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Kai's PhD Defense

Congratulations to Kai Zhang on successfully defending his dissertation! Kai defended his doctoral thesis titled, ‘Towards Low-cost Spatial Haptics: Brake-based Shape Displays and Automatic Content Authoring’. Read more details

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An untethered isoperimetric soft robot

Our research on isoperimetric soft robots was published in Science Robotics. This work presents a constant edge-length, inflatable, robotic truss capable of dramatic shape change and untethered operation. The research was conducted by Nathan S. Usevitch, Zachary M. Hammond, Mac Schwager, Allison M. Okamura, Elliot W. Hawkes, and Sean Follmer. Our robots were featured in Stanford News, The Current, IEEE Spectrum, CNN, Medium, Digital trends, Inverse, Syfy, TechRepublic, New Atlas, Unite AI, SlashGear, Core 77, heise, cnBeta, RSVN, Хайтек, and others. Read more about this work.

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Lawrence's PhD Defense

Congratulations to Lawrence Kim on successfuly defensing his dissertation! Lawrence defended his doctoral thesis titled, ‘Designing In-situ Interaction with Ubiquitous Robots’. Read more details or watch the video recording:

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