Tess Hellebrekers joins Facebook AI
Tess Hellebrekers successfully completed her PhD in April and will be joining Facebook AI Research (FAIR) this Fall. It was
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Bugra Ozutemiz joins Lifeware Labs
Bugra Ozutemiz successfully defended his PhD in February and joined Lifeware Labs this past Spring. Great working with you, Bugra,
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Soft Multifunctional Composite with Liquid Crystal Elastomer
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we report on a novel class of soft multifunctional composite materials
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Soft Tactile Skin with Magnetic Elastomer Composite
We introduce a novel tactile skin that is soft, stretchable, and capable of detection finger touch and swipe motions. This
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New interview with PBS SciTech Now on Self-Healing Circuits
Recently aired interview on PBS SciTech Now where Prof. Majidi chats with Hari Srinivasan on self-healing soft electronics, ultratough elastomers,
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Untethered soft robots presented at ICRA
Xiaonan “Sean” Huang presents his untethered soft robots at the 2019 IEEE ICRA Conference. These include the Soft Electrically Activated
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ElectroDermis sensing sticker presented at ACM CHI
At this year’s ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), we presented ElectroDermis — a wireless electronic sticker that
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Liquid metal nanocomposites reported in Nature Nanotechnology
Article in Nature Nanotechnology reports a new class of liquid metal elastomer nanocomposites created using atomic transfer radical polymerization (ATRP).
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Novel materials for dielectric elastomer generators and actuators
Article in Advanced Materials on a new set of highly elastic nanocomposites that have high dielectric constant. The composites are
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Mo Malakooti accepts offer at UW
Dr. Mo Malakooti will be moving to the University of Washington this Fall to begin his appointment as an Assistant
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Stuart launches robot actuator start-up
Congratulations to Stuart Diller for completing his PhD this past year. This Spring he launched ESTAT Actuation, a robotics hardware
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Eric Markvicka moves to UNL
This past Spring, Eric Markvicka joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. It was awesome
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