04/2021 - Soft Robotics Mechanotherapy Leg Wrap and Textile-Based Capacitive Strain Sensor are featured in the Cornell Fashion in Transit exhibit.
07/2019 - The Soft Robotic Glove project is featured as part of the Nature Exhibition in the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City. Read more...
03/2018 – Harvard’s Office of Technology Development announce a licensing agreement with HoliStick Medical, a Paris-based startup, for a light reflecting catheter developed in the lab in collaboration with Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and MIT.
03/2018 – Josh Gafford successfully defended his PhD thesis!
02/2018 – Ye Ding and Myunghee Kim et al.'s work on human in the loop optimization of control parameters for a soft exosuit, a collaboration with Scott Kuindersma, is published in Science Robotics.
01/2018 – Ye Ding successfully defended his PhD thesis!
07/2017 – Louis Awad and Jaehyun Bae et al.'s work on a soft exosuit that improves walking in stroke patients is published in Science Translational Medicine.
05/2017 – Giuk Lee, Jinsoo Kim, and Fausto Panizzolo et al.'s work on reducing the metabolic cost of running with a tethered soft exosuit is published in Science Robotics.
01/2017 – Brendan Quinlivan and Sangjun Lee et al.'s paper on assistance magnitude vs. metabolic cost reductions with a multi-articular soft exosuit is featured on the online cover of Science Robotics.
01/2017 – Ellen Roche et al.'s work on a soft robotic sleeve for supporting heart function is featured on the cover of Science Translational Medicine.
11/2016 – Seun Araromi gives a talk on stretchable compliant pressure transducers at the IEEE Sensors 2016 conference in Orlando, Florida.
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