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Torque-Transmitting Architected Metamaterials for Flexible and Extendable Tubular Robotics (Jeffery Lipton and co-workers) 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ai…

That’s a wrap on the @Robotics_Summit ✨ Our final day was packed with highlights — from the Women in Robotics breakfast and the Healthcare Robotics Catalyst Showcase, to Form and Function Robotics Challenge winners announcement. Huge congratulations to Northeastern University for taking 1st place in this year’s Form and Function Challenge! 2nd Place & Audience Choice Award: University of Waterloo 3rd Place: The University of British Columbia Honorable Mention: Boston University🤖

Great writeup on our labs work interestingengineering.com/innovation/hyb…

A new Science #Robotics study describes a #SoftRobot made from connected units called #TRUNCs, which can bend, extend, and twist to work safely alongside humans or close a valve. @JeffreyILipton scim.ag/4iyfFlQ

Inspired by elephant trunks, scientists have developed a soft, flexible robotic arm that can twist to stiffen, enabling it to manipulate and install a lightbulb. @MITMechE @NortheasternCOE Read more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/4iyfFlQ

Happy to present our latest paper: Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@ME_at_UW @UW @uwengineering Good luck to our own Shruthika!

Three @UW students - including ME student Shruthika Kandukuri - are competing on NBC's College Bowl show, premiering tonight! KING 5 interviewed Shruthika here: king5.com/article/entert… @uwengineering

.@UW @JeffreyILipton talks to us about developing a new way to quickly make industrial robotic grippers to quickly pivot manufacturing needs on an assembly line: opb.org/article/2022/0…

@leto__jean Markus Nimitz at WPI is deploying important sensors to glaciers using soft robotics

Tell me some of your favorite examples of Robotics in the space of Sustainability and Climate Change!

The Transformative Robotics Lab is grateful for the support from Amazon on developing metamaterial powered robots engr.washington.edu/science-hub/an…

Happy to work with the 3D Printing Nerd Channel to show our work with @AdrianaSchulz7 youtube.com/watch?v=fBBSL1…

No more grasping at straws on production lines! A new tool developed @UW would allow assembly-line robots' to pick up almost anything. @ME_at_UW @uwcse #SIGGRAPH2022 Read more: washington.edu/news/2022/07/2…

Excited for making the IEEE weekly robotics roundup with @AdrianaSchulz7 spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-g…

How to help assembly-line robots shift gears and pick up almost anything doi.org/gqkd39 techxplore.com/news/2022-07-a…

Assembly-line robots are great, but usually at only one thing. A new tool from #UWAllen & @ME_at_UW would enable manufacturers to rapidly get a grip on changing production needs by 3D printing passive grippers customized for various objects. #SIGGRAPH2022 washington.edu/news/2022/07/2…

A UW team, including ME Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton & doctoral student Ian Good, created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper & calculate the best path to pick up a variety of objects. Learn more: washington.edu/news/2022/07/2… @uwcse @uwengineering

Funding from @NASA will help a team including Carnegie Mellon's @zacinaction and @UW's Jeff Lipton continue their work to design and build foldable structures for space. cmu.is/folding-struct…

@DrBrianKeating 3D Printing Food and Foam

Your thesis in 5 words or less. Go:

We're so excited to be selected by @NASA for a Phase II NIAC award for our work on large expanding space structures with @lab_robotics nasa.gov/press-release/…