04/09 Kevin Murphy successfully completed his defense. Congratulations!
04/03 Prof. Ahmed Qureshi from Purdue University visited NMbL.
02/23 Manav Chopda joined the lab as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
02/06 Prof. Alexis Block from Case Western Reserve University visited NMbL.
02/03 Justin Oh joined the lab as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
01/31 A new paper “Underactuated multimodal jumping robot for extraterrestrial exploration” was accepted to ICRA 2026. Congratulations!
2025
12/05 Prof. Janelle Clark from University of Maryland Baltimore County visited NMbL.
10/17 Prof. Yu She from Purdue University visited NMbL.
09/02 Aarush Dhiman, Ben Tsao, Chris Egly, Grace Carsello, Leah Lee, and Manav Chandaka joined the lab as undergraduate students. Welcome!
05/19 Congratulations to Chris Xu, Jack Yan, and Kathleen Lum for winning the Best Demo award at the 2nd Unconventional Robots Workshop with their presentation of our robot, ROCK! See the abstract.
05/15 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 Youngwoo Sim successfully completed his defense. Congratulations!
03/19 A new paper “Monopedal robot branch-to-branch leaping and landing inspired by squirrel balance control” was published to AAAS Science Robotics. Congratulations! See details: article 1, article 2, and article 3.
03/14 Prof. David Cappelleri from Purdue University visited NMbL.
02/11 Kathleen Lum joined the lab as an undergraduate student. Welcome!
01/27 A new paper “Pinto: A latched spring actuated robot for jumping and perching” was accepted to ICRA 2025. Congratulations!
01/10 Prof. Justin Yim was awarded Phase I funding from the NIAC program for the jumping robot. See details and relevant video.