Vehicles gain more sensors every year. Outward-facing sensors get the most attention: active braking, proximity sensing, rain-adapting. But what about the vehicle interior? We teamed up with experts on human-machine interaction to collect information on how sensors in vehicles might measure occupants’ stress levels and other safety-relevant behaviors. This literature review covers two types of …
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Dance pants
Magnetic feet + embroidered magnetic actuators + tiny pants
New Project: Control of Local Curvature and Buckling for Multifunctional Textile-Based Robots
We’re starting a new project in October led by Nick Gravish at the University of California, San Diego. Together with Dan Aukes (Arizona State University) and Ross Hatton (Oregon State University), we will create and model soft robots that have virtual joints. In nature, some animals have limbs with nearly infinite degrees of freedom (elephant …
Paper accepted – Enzymes on Membranes
“Miniaturized Systems for Evaluating Enzyme Activity in Polymeric Membrane Bioreactors” is accepted for publication in Engineering in Life Sciences. Congratulations Shaf! The paper describes a small-scale platform for evaluating the activity of a laccase enzyme (top left) on membranes in a flow-through format (top right) using spectroscopy to detect a color change when the surface-bound …