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Large-scale Deployable Soft Robot
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  • A novel soft robot design framework inspired by origami, kirigami, and natural lifeforms
  • Dual-morphing stretchable origami for giant shape morphing
  • Reconfigurable modular soft machines with variable length and stiffness changes
  • Vine robots with self-stiffening mechanisms for 10-meter-scale robotic adaptive construction
Underwater Swimming Carpet
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  • A paradigm shift in the underwater locomotion principle for 2D sheet-type underwater robots
  • Active flutter dynamics and underwater turbulence control
  • Deployable, meter-scale swimming carpet for environmental remediation (e.g., oil skimming, plastic debris)
  • Robotic offshore green energy harvesting 


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BIRD Lab | Bio-Interactive Robot Design Laboratory

KIST Electronic and Hybrid Materials Research Center

Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea (02792)
Tel: +82-2-958-5357 | E-mail: [email protected]

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