News

2026

  • 06/17 Prof. Justin Yim won the inaugural 2026 Aviation Week Space Tech Challenge Award in the University Programs category!
  • 04/21 Prof. Mark Cutkosky from Stanford University visited NMbL.
  • 04/13 Prof. Mark Spong from University of Texas at Dallas and Prof. Robert Gregg from University of Michigan visited NMbL.
  • 04/11 NMbL placed 2nd at EOH 2026!
  • 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.

2024

  • 10/22 Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea from ETH Zurich visited NMbL.
  • 08/24 Gihyeok Na joined the lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
  • 07/01 NMbL website opened!
Novel Mobile Robots Lab (NMbL)
105 S Mathews Ave
MEL 1421
Urbana, IL 61801
Email: jkyim@illinois.edu
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