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While promising proof-of-concept results highlighting the benefits of hip exoskeletons have been shown, there remains much scope to explore how to provide the best assistance to each individual for a wide range of dynamic activities (e.g. walking, running...

For centuries, engineers have proposed different devices to augment basic human locomotion, such as walking and running. However, as humans are highly optimized to move efficiently, it is known to be hard further improving one’s energy economy with...

Warrior Web (WW) is the project funded by DARPA which aims to develop soft exosuits for load carriers. The ultimate goal is to reduce metabolic expenditure of soldiers by assisting lower limbs when they march with heavy loads. WW full suits focus on two...

List of projects in the lab

We are developing next generation soft wearable robots that use innovative textiles to provide a more conformal, unobtrusive and compliant means to interface to the human body. These robots will augment the capabilities of healthy individuals (e.g...

Students and Teachers Take on Robots in India Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute Blog Post, March 28, 2019 Conor Walsh Inducted into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Wyss Institute News, March 25, 2019 [ AIMBE Press Release] Bots...

A full list of publications can be found here.

07/2026 - Maggie Chen , Best Paper award and 3rd Place Student Paper Competition Award at IEEE EMBC for her work on "Automatic Calibration of Lower Limb Electrode Location and Stimulation Amplitude " 06/2026 - Biodesign lab and Luigi's Fishtank hosts...