District 03 / Robotics & autonomy

Robotics Laboratory

BB-8 CAD assembly with transparent spherical shell and internal drive mechanism

Independent robotics

BB-8 ↗

A spherical robot integrating mechanical packaging, embedded motor control, wireless communication, and camera-based perception. Designed in CAD, built in hardware, and evaluated through separate vision and motion demonstrations.

Continuum robot laboratory setup with fiducial markers and an end-effector gripper

Research

Continuum robotics ↗

Research into how tendon actuation maps to the motion and force capabilities of soft continuum robots, accounting for nonlinear behavior and model uncertainty.