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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Washington Post Article on Self-Healing “Terminator Skin”
Check out the recent article in the Washington Post [link] on SML’s new “Terminator Skin”. The skin is made up
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Interview with PBS Scitech Now on Soft Electronics
Prof. Majidi chats with PBS’ Hari Sreenivasan about the next generation of electronic tattoos and wearables. The video was broadcast
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Optically Transparent Stretchable Electronics
SML and the Herman Lab at Univ. Toronto have teamed up to introduce a novel thin-film circuit architecture that is
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Alexi & Navid Launch SML Spin-offs
Congratulations to Alexi Charalambides and Navid Kazem for helping to launch two start-up companies that will commercialize some of the
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Self-Healing Soft Electronic Skin Reported in Nature Materials
We have introduced a method for creating electrical circuits that are soft, stretchable, and self-repairing. The material is composed of
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