News

2024

Oct. 2024 – Hrishi and Ava have joined MERGe Lab as undergrad students. Welcome!
Sep. 2024 – Lilly has submitted a paper to ICRA 2025 on “Large-Expansion Bi-Layer Auxetics Create Compliant Cellular Motion”
Jun. 2024 – Greg’s paper on “Strong Compliant Grasps Using a Cable-Driven Soft Gripper” has been accepted to IROS 2024!
May 2024 – Lilly won the 2024 IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM) Outstanding Reviewer award!
Apr. 2024 – David, Siqi, Tuo, and Chongxun have joined MERGe Lab as PhD students. Welcome!
Apr. 2024 – Darren and Tanya have joined MERGe Lab as undergrad students. Welcome!
Mar. 2024 – Greg submitted a paper to IROS 2024 on “Strong Compliant Grasps Using a Cable-Driven Soft Gripper”
Jan. 2024 – Annan and Lilly’s paper “Embedded air channels transform soft lattices into sensorized grippers” has been accepted to ICRA 2024! See y’all in Yokohama!
Jan. 2024 – Valerie, Lilly, Jeana and Annan’s paper “Real-Time Grocery Packing by Integrating Vision, Tactile Sensing, and Soft Fingers” has been accepted to Robosoft 2024! See y’all in San Diego!

Dec. 2023 – Greg’s paper on “In-Hand Manipulation With a Simple Belted Parallel-Jaw Gripper” has been published in IEEE RA-L!
Nov. 2023 – This website is online!
Nov. 2023 – Valerie, Lilly, Jeana and Annan submitted a paper to Robosoft 2024 on “Online Packing of Groceries Through Soft Fingers with Integrated Visual-Tactile Sensing”
Sep. 2023 – Annan and Lilly submitted a paper to ICRA 2024 on “Embedded air channels transform soft lattices into sensorized grippers”
Sep. 2023 – Greg submitted a paper to ICRA 2024 on “Strong Compliant Grasps Using a Cable-Driven Soft Gripper”
May 2023 – Lilly has been named a Schmidt Science Fellow. She will spend her postdoc fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.