Ryan Truby
@rltruby
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Asst. Professor @NorthwesternU, PI @TrubyLab | Advancing machine intelligence through material design | Prev. @SchmidtFellows @MIT_CSAIL, PhD @hseas
Chicago, IL
Joined August 2015
The latest work from Taekyoung & Pranav @TrubyLab is out at @AdvSciNews! Taekyoung led the development of a flexible, electrically-driven soft actuator! Motorizing soft architected materials like these are enabling a new path for artificial muscle design. https://t.co/R6dp1pyx1W
mccormick.northwestern.edu
The simplified, low-cost soft actuators developed by Professor Ryan Truby enable worm-like crawling, bicep-like lifting, and more.
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Philanthropy is vital in advancing the science needed to address global challenges. Our co-founder @wenschmidt is an inspiring example. Thank you for your unwavering support for science @schmidtsciences @SchmidtOcean
forbes.com
How billionaire Wendy Schmidt became a crucial funder of science and climate research amid political rollbacks—backing ocean discovery, data access, and storytelling.
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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. https://t.co/pcJvJNCLub
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Professor Ryan Truby (@TrubyLab) developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new actuators provide the performance and mechanical properties required for building robotic musculoskeletal systems. https://t.co/zD8bl8Q836
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Congrats to Dr. Jina Ko on receiving a 2025 NSF CAREER Award for advancing early disease detection with cutting-edge diagnostics! Read More: https://t.co/EdvKg1QWm1
#NSFCAREER #WomenInSTEM
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Attach an auxetic structure—that expands when pulled on—to a servo motor and you’ve got a more useful hardy soft robot. https://t.co/PiFU5ls30Z
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Enormous congratulations, Jennifer!
Deeply honored to receive this recognition from @theNASciences on behalf of our amazing team and collaborators who made these advances possible 🙏
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So fun to organize with y'all (@dryeeseeks, @ProfGraceGu and Yu Jun Tan)!
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HUGE thanks to everyone who joined PM02 @Materials_MRS #F24MRS! We had phenomenal invited talks from @JuliaRGreer @ShuYangPenn @bayleslab @WillBoley Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng @CHADNANO @zakpage Yanliang Zhang, @MaxSaccone @EmilyPentzer Emanuela Del Dottore, & Keith Brown!
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A team of @NorthwesternEng students won the highest honors at @NASA's 2024 BIG Idea Challenge for their space-saving metal inflatable system 💡🏆 The Artemis Award recognizes the idea with the best potential to contribute to future moon missions—congrats! https://t.co/EYTnic1SMg
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🚀 250+ researchers, policymakers & leaders celebrate launching the @SchmidtFellows & @timeshighered Interdisciplinary Science Rankings at #THEISF🌍 #THEISR recognises universities breaking barriers, fostering collaboration & driving transformative discoveries
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Our @NorthwesternU undergrads won the @NASA BIG Idea Challenge! I couldn’t be more proud of the METALS Team and their receiving the Artemis Award. Their technology is *literally* having out of this world impact!
A team with Northwestern Engineering students took the highest honor at NASA’s 2024 annual BIG Idea Challenge forum, winning the prestigious Artemis Award. Congrats! https://t.co/5nGj1StfGy
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Join the @NUSynBio Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and work on cutting-edge research with top experts in synthetic biology. Three positions available. Apply now: https://t.co/LiVGGngMCl
#Postdoc #SyntheticBiology #ResearchOpportunity #CareerDevelopment #NorthwesternUniversity
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It was so much fun meeting these students and sharing our work with them. A huge thank you to all @TrubyLab members for their thoughtful demos, & Maddie Briggs, @NehaPKamat, @simonaf1ne and @SPInLabNU for partnering with us to show off awesome work from our NU MRSEC!
The SQE Inspire Program thanks Dr. Ryan Truby @rltruby & his Robotic Matter Lab members for helping host students from Trinity High School for an exciting day meeting the scientists & seeing first hand the amazing robotic & material science research that they are doing! @TrubyLab
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If you're at #AIChE2024, swing by Poster 387 and meet Dr. EunBi Oh @EunBiOh3 at TODAY's #FacultyCandidate Poster Session! EunBi joined @TrubyLab as the first member of our team and laid the foundation of our group's incredible community. She is SO ready to launch her own lab!
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The DOD is supporting our work in additive manufacturing @NorthwesternEng with a new DURIP! We are grateful to AFOSR for their enormous support! We will be combining robots and precision gantries to make multifunctional material systems.
war.gov
The Defense Department announced awards totaling $43 million to 112 university researchers under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program.
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How lucky the 2024s are!!!!
Strong bonds across cohorts are key to our community. And we are so lucky to have six amazing Senior Fellows facilitating our Science Leadership Program this week, creating new connections with our 2024 Fellows. Thank you!
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Texas A&M is teaming up with @NorthwesternU and the @NSF on a groundbreaking $26M Engineering Research Center! 👏 👍 Read more at https://t.co/gsRvP1NZA7
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