Assistant Professor Xiwen Gong has received an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research that aims to advance the understanding of wearable optoelectronics based on nanomaterials. Read more: michiganche.info/3Ony1sZ

So awesome to see Peyton Greenside on this list!!!

Last call! 📣Abstract submission to ACS Colloids closes tomorrow!! Join us on June 23-26 in Seattle to discuss colloids, sustainable materials, rheology, complex fluids, adhesion, self assembly and more! Colloids2024.org (Some of the speakers & organizers tagged here)

Wireless soft robots are promising tools for precise and remote healthcare and disease diagnosis! Read about the translational challenges of wireless soft robotic medical devices in the new Review by Metin Sitti et al Metin Sitti Intelligent Systems Koç Üniversitesi go.nature.com/3TxUNBu

"Once again" is right! 23 of our incredibly talented Northwestern Engineering undergraduates received $146k from NASA's BIG Idea Challenge *AGAIN* to take inflatable metals to the moon for lunar operations. So excited to help support this amazing team this year. mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/…

Led by Professor Kevin Lynch, researchers in the Center for Robotics and Biosystems demonstrated their Omnid mocobots at the annual invite-only MARS Conference hosted by Jeff Bezos. bit.ly/3vETBTU

2018 Schmidt Science Fellow Ryan Truby is transforming the future of robotics with inspiration from nature itself. Northwestern Robotic Matter Lab Discover how soft robotics could lead to safer, more efficient solutions for our planet. Full film: youtu.be/DXws9g8_QJk

Welcome to our community, 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows!!!!

The Fall 2024 MRS Call for Papers is now open! Check out #F24MRS symposium "Additive and Digital Manufacturing of Multifunctional Materials" that Daryl Yee, Grace Gu, Yu Ju Tan, and I are organizing. Deadline is June 24. bit.ly/3UlnroT

One more week left to submit to our Fall 24 MRS symposium, PM02 - Additive and Digital Manufacturing of Multifunctional Materials! mrs.org/meetings-event…

HUGE congratulations to my first two PhD students, Alexander Kane and Alex Evenchik Northwestern Engineering, for being named Ryan Fellows International Institute for Nanotechnology!

I'm offering a 3-day LCA workshop for grad students - target audience is students who are doing experimental or theoretical research and want to add an LCA component to their work. This workshop runs Aug 5-7 at NU. …eeringsustainability.northwestern.edu/news-events/li…

Robot crawls by flexing its "muscles" 🤖💪 Northwestern engineers developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. spr.ly/6013i5aeJ | Northwestern Engineering

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND) Engineering Research Center (ERC)! Our Center will revolutionize how #robots augment human labor using dexterous robot hands with AI-powered skills and intuitive interfaces. new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-annou…

Historic news Northwestern! The new U.S. National Science Foundation HAND ERC led by Ed Colgate brings together NU, Texas A&M, CMU, Florida A&M, MIT, and more - and up to $52,000,000 - to revolutionize how robots can augment human labor with dexterous robot hands. Robotic Matter Lab is honored to join this team!

A new Northwestern-led center is set to receive up to $52 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation. 🤖 HAND ERC will develop dexterous robot hands that can assist humans with manufacturing, caregiving, handling dangerous materials & more. spr.ly/6012laIg0 Northwestern Engineering | NorthwesternResearch

Check out IEEE Spectrum's Video Friday highlighting HAND. spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-r… #TactileRobotics #RobotDexterity #Haptics #HANDerc

#RoboSoft2025 is in Lausanne, Switzerland, 23-26 April 2025 and they are now calling for contributions! The paper submission deadline is 15 October, so visit the conference website and submit your work soon! For more details, visit: robosoft2025.org