Robotic Matter Lab

Student run account for the Robotic Matter Lab @NorthwesternU, PI: @rltruby | MSE, ME, CRB @NorthwesternEng | soft materials, manufacturing & soft robotics

[Northwestern BMG and SQE @NU_BMG_SQE]

The SQE Inspire Program thanks Mrs. Kimberly Querrey & Mr. John & Mrs. Rita Canning for their generous support for young students to explore STEM careers. This year we hosted field trips, a Women’s Shadow Day, & the Canning Summer Scholar Workshop! Happy Holidays! @TrubyLab

[Northwestern Engineering @NorthwesternEng]

Professor Ryan Truby, and students Alexander Kane and Eric Yang received a DARPA Director’s Fellowship, supporting development of next-generation soft, flexible batteries through Truby’s Robotic Matter Lab.

https://t.co/WaxpMV3TIG

[Northwestern Engineering @NorthwesternEng]

A research team with Professors Wei Chen and Ryan Truby harnessed physics, computation, and 3D printing to autonomously produce materials that change shape on demand.

https://t.co/pcJvJNCLub

[Northwestern Engineering @NorthwesternEng]

Professor Ryan Truby (@TrubyLab) developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new actuators provide the performance and mechanical properties required for building robotic musculoskeletal systems.

https://t.co/zD8bl8Q836

[Northwestern Engineering @NorthwesternEng]

Professor Ryan Truby reimagined a soft materials course by integrating cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, providing students with hands-on experience in additive manufacturing.

https://t.co/GvCrlpDqIB

[Robotic Matter Lab @TrubyLab]

Happy holidays from the RML :)

[Ryan Truby @rltruby]

The latest work from Taekyoung & Pranav @TrubyLab is out at @AdvSciNews! Taekyoung led the development of a flexible, electrically-driven soft actuator! Motorizing soft architected materials like these are enabling a new path for artificial muscle design.
https://t.co/R6dp1pyx1W

[Northwestern Engineering @NorthwesternEng]

A team with Northwestern Engineering students took the highest honor at NASA’s 2024 annual BIG Idea Challenge forum, winning the prestigious Artemis Award.

Congrats!

https://t.co/5nGj1StfGy

[Ryan Truby @rltruby]

It was so much fun meeting these students and sharing our work with them. A huge thank you to all @TrubyLab members for their thoughtful demos, & Maddie Briggs, @NehaPKamat, @simonaf1ne and @SPInLabNU for partnering with us to show off awesome work from our NU MRSEC!

[Northwestern BMG and SQE @NU_BMG_SQE]

The SQE Inspire Program thanks Dr. Ryan Truby @rltruby & his Robotic Matter Lab members for helping host students from Trinity High School for an exciting day meeting the scientists & seeing first hand the amazing robotic & material science research that they are doing! @TrubyLab

[Robotic Matter Lab @TrubyLab]

Our new Instagram account just launched! Come see what we baked for coffee hour!

@TrubyLab on Instagram

https://t.co/OsfAypG998

[Ryan Truby @rltruby]

If you're at #AIChE2024, swing by Poster 387 and meet Dr. EunBi Oh @EunBiOh3 at TODAY's #FacultyCandidate Poster Session! EunBi joined @TrubyLab as the first member of our team and laid the foundation of our group's incredible community. She is SO ready to launch her own lab!

[Northwestern Engineering @NorthwesternEng]

Congratulations to Northwestern Engineering's Ian McCue and @rltruby, who both received two-year, $500,000 @DARPA Young Faculty Awards. The program aims to identify and engage standout researchers in junior faculty positions. https://t.co/FdfBlkTGoW

[Thomas A. Berrueta @BerruetaThomas]

🎉Excited to announce my latest perspective in collaboration with @rltruby and @todd_murphey!

Here we provide a task-first roadmap toward materializing autonomy in soft robots as small as paramecia and as large as elephant trunks, paying particular attention to scale-dependence.

[ACS PMSE Division @acspmse]

[Photos from @acspmse /@POLY_ACS Award Ceremony] Future Faculty Award Winners. Hearty congratulations! Hope you all had a great time at #ACSFall2023. All the very best to your next adventures. @AmerChemSociety #facultychemjobs

[EunBi Oh @EunBiOh3]

Off to San Francisco for #ACSFall2023! I will be presenting at the Future Faculty Symposium this Sunday. Thrilled to share my work from both the Mirkin group and the Robotic Matter lab. Excited and eager to hear insights and feedback from all! #acspmse @TrubyLab @MirkinGroupNU

[Robotic Matter Lab @TrubyLab]

Our first review is now OPEN ACCESS at @AnnualReviews Material Research! We look at progress in electrically controllable soft actuators for building computationally and physically intelligent machines. Check it out: https://t.co/di2M5vYJ3c

[Robotic Matter Lab @TrubyLab]

Our first trip/retreat together is in the books!

[Robotic Matter Lab @TrubyLab]

Dr. @EunBiOh3 is presenting our lab's VERY FIRST conference presentation tomorrow #ACSSpring2023!!! Check out her talk (3825653) on 3D printed ionogel composites in the Materials and Processing Challenges in Additive Manufacturing of Structural Composites Symposium @acspmse.

[Northwestern University Computer Science @northwesterncs]

Congratulations to Professors Sam Kriegman and Ryan Truby on winning a 2022 Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience Seed Grant for their project titled "Sustainable Design and Fabrication of Intelligent Robots." @CesrNu @Kriegmerica @rltruby https://t.co/jlwXwndWN2