Soft Machines Lab
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Joined July 2018
Podcast on Paleobionics highlighting our work on using soft robotics to "resurrect" extinct organisms like the pleurocystites:
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Listen to the Where What If Becomes What's Next Podcast 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" via @techxplore_com.
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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: .You can find the original journal article here: @NextBytePodcast @CMU_Mech @AdvSciNews.
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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: @SeungHwanKo1.
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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
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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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RT @PadmanabhaAkhil: Our research won a Best Paper Award at HRI 2024! Henry Evans, an individual with quadriplegia, used our wearable HAT (….
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Article @arstechnica on Rhombot robot inspired by the 500 million year old Pleurocystitid echinoderm: Full article in PNAS: @CMU_Mech.
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The transition from sessile suspension to active mobile detritus feeding in early echinoderms (c.a. 500 Mya) required sophisticated locomotion stra...
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Article @CBC on wearable sensor for tracking itch in patients with eczema. Read more about the study with @ZackoryErickson @CMU_Robotics and Sonal Choudhary @UPMC in Nature Communications Medicine:
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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
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 has been recognized with a 2023 Inno Fire Award for Trailblazing Innovators: via @PittsburghInno @Arieca_Inc @CMU_Mech.
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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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Crawling soft robot with gecko-inspired sticky feet developed by SML member Peter Roberts and Sampada Acharya #cmu #engineering via @CMUEngineering.
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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:. Self-Healing Machines Are Among Us via @sciam @CMU_Mech.
scientificamerican.com
Electronics that can bend, stretch and repair themselves could potentially work in applications ranging from tougher robots to smart clothes
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RT @LeDucLab_CMU: We are very proud of our lab members! Nolen Keeys awarded 1st place at AMSM 2022 for his work "Toward New and Efficient S….
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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" via @sciam @CMU_Mech.
scientificamerican.com
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 @AdvSciNews @CMU_Mech.
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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 .
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