About Us

The Novel Mobile Robots lab (NMbL) develops robots that walk, hop, roll, and more with Prof. Justin Yim.  We seek new robot mobility strategies that increase locomotion performance, tackle challenging environments, or enable new robot abilities.  Our research areas include legged robot control, underactuated robots, jumping locomotion, balance control, and robot mechanism design.

Recent News

• 05/19/2025 Congratulations to Chris, Jack, and Kathleen for winning the Best Demo award at the 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop with their presentation of our robot, ROCK! See the abstract.
• 05/15/2025 Prof. Justin Yim received the NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, ‘Extreme Robot Walking: Speed, Agility, and Efficiency via Reduced Degrees of Freedom.’ See details.
• 04/09/2025 Youngwoo successfully completed his defense. Congratulations!