Our FIRST research paper Northwestern Engineering is out Soft Matter! Pranav Kaarthik 3D printed architected materials for motorized, untethered soft robots that walk for >1h! Congrats to Pranav, Francesco Sanchez (ME Undergrad) & James Avtges (MSR Student)! rsc.li/3wzwfMH

Motorized, untethered soft robots via 3D printed auxetics led by Pranav Kaarthik, Francesco L. Sanchez, James Avtges nd Ryan L. Truby Ryan Truby Robotic Matter Lab doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00…

What do we want? Sustainable robotics! When do we want it? Now! Together with Ryan Truby, our proposal, "A sustainable path to intelligent robots" was one of five seed grants awarded by NU_CESR this year.

Congratulations to Professors Sam Kriegman and Ryan Truby on winning a 2022 Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience Seed Grant for their project titled "Sustainable Design and Fabrication of Intelligent Robots." NU_CESR Sam Kriegman Ryan Truby bit.ly/3lcGC67

Dr. EunBi Oh is presenting our lab's VERY FIRST conference presentation tomorrow #ACSSpring2023!!! Check out her talk (3825653) on 3D printed ionogel composites in the Materials and Processing Challenges in Additive Manufacturing of Structural Composites Symposium ACS PMSE Division.

Our first trip/retreat together is in the books!

Our first review is now OPEN ACCESS at Annual Reviews Material Research! We look at progress in electrically controllable soft actuators for building computationally and physically intelligent machines. Check it out: bit.ly/3DFftPe

Off to San Francisco for #ACSFall2023! I will be presenting at the Future Faculty Symposium this Sunday. Thrilled to share my work from both the Mirkin group and the Robotic Matter lab. Excited and eager to hear insights and feedback from all! #acspmse Robotic Matter Lab Mirkin Group

[Photos from ACS PMSE Division /ACS POLY Division Award Ceremony] Future Faculty Award Winners. Hearty congratulations! Hope you all had a great time at #ACSFall2023. All the very best to your next adventures. American Chemical Society #facultychemjobs

🎉Excited to announce my latest perspective in collaboration with Ryan Truby and Todd Murphey! Here we provide a task-first roadmap toward materializing autonomy in soft robots as small as paramecia and as large as elephant trunks, paying particular attention to scale-dependence.

Congratulations to Northwestern Engineering's Ian McCue and Ryan Truby, who both received two-year, $500,000 DARPA Young Faculty Awards. The program aims to identify and engage standout researchers in junior faculty positions. bit.ly/46NVESC

The latest work from Taekyoung & Pranav Robotic Matter Lab is out at @AdvSciNews! Taekyoung led the development of a flexible, electrically-driven soft actuator! Motorizing soft architected materials like these are enabling a new path for artificial muscle design. bit.ly/4cGzPHN

If you're at #AIChE2024, swing by Poster 387 and meet Dr. EunBi Oh EunBi Oh at TODAY's #FacultyCandidate Poster Session! EunBi joined Robotic Matter Lab as the first member of our team and laid the foundation of our group's incredible community. She is SO ready to launch her own lab!

Our new Instagram account just launched! Come see what we baked for coffee hour! Robotic Matter Lab on Instagram instagram.com/trubylab/profi…

The SQE Inspire Program thanks Dr. Ryan Truby Ryan Truby & his Robotic Matter Lab members for helping host students from Trinity High School for an exciting day meeting the scientists & seeing first hand the amazing robotic & material science research that they are doing! Robotic Matter Lab

It was so much fun meeting these students and sharing our work with them. A huge thank you to all Robotic Matter Lab members for their thoughtful demos, & Maddie Briggs, Kamat Lab, Simona Fine and SPIn Lab for partnering with us to show off awesome work from our NU MRSEC!

A team with Northwestern Engineering students took the highest honor at NASA’s 2024 annual BIG Idea Challenge forum, winning the prestigious Artemis Award. Congrats! spr.ly/6019sqQAd

Happy holidays from the RML :)

Professor Ryan Truby reimagined a soft materials course by integrating cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, providing students with hands-on experience in additive manufacturing. spr.ly/6011FvzZD

Professor Ryan Truby (Robotic Matter Lab) developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new actuators provide the performance and mechanical properties required for building robotic musculoskeletal systems. spr.ly/6018fr932