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Research Focus

I am interested in designing and building soft, intelligent robot systems with yet-to-be conceived functionalities. The backbone of my research is highly multidisciplinary at the intersection between Soft Architected Materials, Soft Electronics, Soft Robotics, and Biomedical Engineering. The goal of my research spans a broad range of future robot applications from meter-scale marine energy harvesting, human-scale skin computer and actuation system down to microscale biomedical robots for cutting-edge cancer therapeutics.

​Key research highlights include the development of:
  • Architected Skin: 
    A strain-coupled soft platform for tailorable micro-textures and electronics - Advanced Materials (2018)
  • Skin Computer:
    A system-level electronic epidermis that innervates and controls soft robots wirelessly - Science Robotics (2018)
  • Stretchable Origami:
    A soft robot design framework inspired by pelican eel's giant shape morphing - Science Robotics (2019)
  • Swimming Carpet:
    A paradigm shift in the underwater locomotion principle for 2D underwater robots - Science Robotics (2021)
  • Mechanical Computer: 
    Architected, system-level mechanical metamaterials for autonomous soft machines - TBD, under review
  • Ingestible Surgeon:
    Microrobotic electro-chemodynamic therapeutics for gastrointestinal cancers - TBD, in preparation

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