Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory

Research overview*

Remarked one unimpressed Yale researcher: "Leave it to the Harvard fellows to invent new and exciting ways to be irritating."

Flapping-wing microrobots

Structure-function relationships for low-Re flapping flight	Thoracic mechanics for efficient power distribution and control	Control techniques for computation-limited robots
Ultra-low mass, high efficiency power and control electronics	RoboBees!	Mechanical intelligence: passive mechanisms for perturbation rejection

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Ambulatory microrobots

Development of hexapod and myriapod inspired autonomous robots	Energy density optimized actuation for centimeter-scale autonomous robots	Microfabrication of articulated and actuated microstructures

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Soft actuators, sensors, and robots

Programmable matter - self folding sheets of 'robotic origami'	Soft functional materials: hyperelastic sensors for robot proprioception, exteroception	Microstructured elastomers for tunable surface properties (e.g. enhanced dry adhesion)
Soft functional materials: soft actuators	Worm-like soft robots	Assistive soft orthotics and wearable human-computer interfaces