Robot and Mechanism Design

Robots don't need to look like a car or a human. Novel mechanisms, whether it's an origami based self-folding robot, or a robot made up of trusses that rearrange themselves can take all forms of designs.

Faculty

Michelle Johnson

Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Secondary Faculty, BE

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS

Marc Miskin

Associate Professor, ESE

Cynthia Sung

Associate Professor, MEAM; Secondary faculty, CIS & ESE

Camillo J. Taylor

Director, GRASP Lab; Associate Dean, Cora Ingrum Center (CIC) - SEAS; Raymond S Markowitz President’s Distinguished Professor, CIS

Mark Yim

Faculty Director, Design Studio (Venture Labs); Asa Whitney Professor, MEAM

Inside the Lab

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

ATLAS Navigator: Active Task-driven LAnguage-embedded Gaussian Splatting

Igor Spasojevic

Postdoctoral Researcher, ESE '22-'25 - Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside

Varun Murali

PostDoc, MEAM '23-'25 - Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Dexter Ong

Robotics Master's '24; PhD, CIS

Yuezhan Tao

PhD, CIS '26 - Software Engineer, Zoox

Vijay Kumar

Nemirovsky Family Dean, SEAS

Pratik Chaudhari

Associate Professor, ESE

Dr. Cynthia Sung and Sung Robotics

Dr. Cynthia Sung and Sung Robotics

Cynthia Sung

Associate Professor, MEAM; Secondary faculty, CIS & ESE

Dr. Mark Yim and Modlab

Dr. Mark Yim and Modlab

Mark Yim

Faculty Director, Design Studio (Venture Labs); Asa Whitney Professor, MEAM

Projects