Research

Close-up image of two endeffectors of inspection devices. One is a larger diameter and made of metal with a camera and multiple LEDs in a ring at the tip. The other made of translucent soft polymer much smaller than the rigid one, and with a small camera on the tip.

Inspection Robots

Tools for navigating and exploring narrow, hard-to-reach spaces.

Clear plastic jar laying on its side with a small, translucent, flexible 8-legged soft robot crawling out with several wire leads trailing behind.

DEA Soft Robots & Actuators

Novel compliant robotic platforms for use in unpredictable environments. 

A single-layer DEA sitting in a bath of dry ice with a thermocouple and two control leads extending off screen.

Thermal Testing

Characterization of DEA and elastomer performance at extreme thermals.

A test platform placed inside a roughly shoe-box sized radiation chamber with various electronics on board and a lead block shielding the lower third of the platform from the left.

Radiation Testing

Characterization of DEAs under extreme-ionizing-radiation fields.