News
| Feb 22, 2024 | Lawrence appears on Broncos talk radio to discuss how the lab’s research on impact mitigation could be applied to create better sports safety equipment! Listen here. |
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| Jan 20, 2024 | Lawrence and Rob publish research on tunable metamaterials for impact mitigation in Advanced Materials Technologies! Read more here. |
| Jan 05, 2024 | Lawrence and Rob publish a method for creating multiphase composite materials using inkjet printing in Advanced Materials! Read more here! |
| Oct 09, 2023 | Charles’s paper, Determining Optimal Print Orientation Using GPU-Accelerated Convex Hull Analysis, was published at SCF ‘23: Symposium on Computational Fabrication! Check the paper out here. This work was implemented into the open-source Oak Ridge National Laboratory Slicer 2 project. |
| Feb 10, 2023 | Lawrence’s brief communication on mechanical characterization and constitutive modeling of 3d-printable soft materials is accepted in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing! |
| Feb 07, 2023 | Lawrence’s manucript introducing the soft robot design tool SoRoForge is published in Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering! More at https://soroforge.com/ |
| Jun 30, 2022 | Brandon was selected for an NSF Advanced Study Institute short course program on nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Our paper on automated synthesis of pneumatic bending soft actuators was accepted for publication at Robosoft 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland! |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Our paper on leveraging shell finite element simulations for simulation of pneumatic soft actuators was accepted for publication at Robosoft 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland! |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Our paper on reduced-order modeling of HASEL-powered soft robotic systems was accepted for publication at Robosoft 2022 in Edinburgh, Scotland! |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Our work on Design and Fabrication of Realistic, Presurgical Planning Models through Bitmap Printing was published in JOVE video journal! |
| Sep 09, 2021 | Our paper on soft actuator design is featured on the CU Boulder ME website! |
| Aug 26, 2021 | Our paper on soft actuator design wins IEEE-CASE Best Application Paper Award at 2021 CASE Conference in Lyon, France! |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Stratasys collaboration video regarding the nature of multi-material 3D printing in our lab. |
| Jul 08, 2021 | Lawrence’s entry took 2nd Place in the Grabcad / Ntopology 3D Printed Fixture or Tool Design Student Division |
| Jul 07, 2021 | We are excited that our paper “A Seamless Workflow for Design and Fabrication of Multimaterial Pneumatic Soft Actuators” has been selected as a finalist of the IEEE CASE2021 Best Application Paper Award! |
| Mar 13, 2021 | Our paper “Modeling of Contactless Bubble-Bubble Interactions in Microchannels with Integrated Inertial Pumps” was selected as Editor’s Pick for Physics of Fluids! |
| Mar 12, 2021 | Our paper “Modeling of Contactless Bubble-Bubble Interactions in Microchannels with Integrated Inertial Pumps” was published in Physics of Fluids! |
| Mar 01, 2021 | Brandon and team won second place in Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Competition! |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Professor MacCurdy was interviewed on the IEEE Soft Robotics Podcast! |
| May 05, 2020 | Professor MacCurdy was issued a US patent on hybrid 3D printing methods System and methods for additive manufacturing of electromechanical assemblies R MacCurdy, H Lipson US Patent 10,645,812 2020 |
| May 01, 2020 | Our paper about digital evolution was published in MIT press Artificial Life journal The surprising creativity of digital evolution: A collection of anecdotes from the evolutionary computation and artificial life research communities J Lehman, J Clune, D Misevic, C Adami, L Altenberg, J Beaulieu, … Artificial Life 26 (2), 274-306 133 2020 |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Our paper demonstrating a fully 3D-printed, self-sensing multimaterial soft actuator was published in RAL. A Fabrication Free, 3D Printed, Multi-Material, Self-Sensing Soft Actuator T Hainsworth, L Smith, S Alexander, R MacCurdy IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5 (3), 4118-4125 2020 |
| Apr 08, 2019 | Brandon was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! |
| Apr 03, 2019 | Brandon was selected for honorable mention for NDSEG fellowship! |
| Nov 20, 2018 | Professor MacCurdy was issued a US patent on software-defined radio-frequency tracking methods Programmable tracking device and related methods R MacCurdy, S Powell, R Gabrielson, D Winkler US Patent 10,132,931 |
| May 11, 2018 | Our paper about designing and fabricating compliant, handed shearing-auxetic actuators was published in Science! |
| Apr 24, 2018 | Our paper about fabricating compliant robotic grippers based on handed shearing-auxetic actuators was presented at RoboSoft, 2018. This video demonstrates the system. |
| Mar 21, 2018 | Our paper about designing and testing a soft, untethered robot fish was published in Science Robotics! This video shows the system. |
| Oct 15, 2017 | Professor MacCurdy is the general chair, along with Dave Levin from U. Toronto and Neil Gershenfeld, of this year’s ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF), which will be held June 17-19, 2018 at MIT. Neil’s Center for Bits and Atoms is hosting the SCF this year. |
| Sep 28, 2017 | Our paper on automatically designing and fabricating robots by folding was a finalist for the JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award at IROS 2017. |
| Jul 17, 2017 | Professor MacCurdy was on CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell. Check out the video. |
| Jul 10, 2017 | Professor MacCurdy is going to CU Boulder!! He’ll be starting as an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at CU Boulder this January, 2018. He’s looking for students, so write to him if you’re interested in working with him. |
| Jun 17, 2017 | Professor MacCurdy’s paper on automatically designing and fabricating robots by folding was published in IEEE RA-L and will also be presented at IROS2017 in Vancouver. Also watch the accompanying video. |
| May 24, 2017 | Professor MacCurdy gave a talk at the LiveWorx conference in Boston. |
| Nov 21, 2016 | The Boston ABC channel WCVB broadcast a video piece about my Printable Viscoelastics work. |
| Nov 15, 2016 | The Printed Programmable Viscoelastics Youtube video now has more than 50,000 views! |
| Oct 04, 2016 | Professor MacCurdy has been awarded another patent! US 9,487,387: System and methods for actuation using electro-osmosis |
| Aug 01, 2016 | The Printed Hydraulics Youtube video now has more than 250,000 views! |
| Jul 01, 2016 | Professor MacCurdy’s Printed Programmable Viscoelastics paper has been accepted to IROS 2016 in Daejeon, Korea. the IROS acceptance rate was 48% this year. |
| Mar 31, 2016 | Our first paper about the ecological science that can be done with my Automatic Tracking System will appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B! |
| Jan 15, 2016 | Professor MacCurdy’s Printed Hydraulics paper has been accepted to ICRA 2016 in Stockholm. ICRA’s acceptance rate was 34.7% this year. |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Professor MacCurdy gave a talk: “Multicellular Machines” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Symposium on Informal Robotics |
| Apr 25, 2015 | Professor MacCurdy gave a talk: “Multicellular Machines” at the MIT Active Matter Summit. |
| Dec 14, 2002 | Professor MacCurdy’s work on BitBlox and printed magnets was featured on the PBS Newshour. |