Research

Research Areas

All Projects

  Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data

  Reverse Engineering Dynamical Systems: Symbolic regression of complex systems
  Emergent Self-models: Adaptation in embedded robotics
  Evolutionary Ornithopters: Flapping, flying robots
  Nonaped: Dynamic pneumatic robot
  The Golem Project: Physical artificial life
  Flapping Piezo-Leaf Generator: A novel device for wind energy harvesting

  Machine Metabolism: Implementing properties of biological metabolism in a robotic ecology.
  Dynamically Programmable Fluidic Assembly: Programmable assembly of microscale components on a microfluidic chip
  Stochastic Modular Assembly: A fluidic approach to programmable matter
  Digital Fabrication: Top-down approach to assembling reconfigurable discrete matter
  Jamming Granular Materials: Exploiting the jamming phenomenon for programmable matter
  Molecubes: An open-source modular robotic system
  Self replication: Investigation of physical self-replication phenomena
  Stochastic modular robotics: Self-organizing stochastic robotics
  Soft Modular Robot: investigating an amorphous modular robot
  Tensegrity Robots: Lightweight, deployable machines
  IcoTens: 20-sided tensegrity robot
  Fabbers: Multi-material 3D printing for automated fabrication of integrated, functional parts
  Fab @ Home: Democratizing 3D printing at the home
  Tissue Engineering: A technology for directly fabricating 3D living tissue
 
  Freeform Mechanical Design: Autonomous design of freeform multi-material functional objects to meet high level goals
  Robust Circuits:
  Kinematic Mechanisms
  3D sketching: Reconstruction of a 3D object form a single freehand sketch