Tuo Zhao

Postdoctoral Research Associate @EPrinceton • @CEEatGT PhD

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

Can metamaterials twist, contract/expand, and shrink in large deformation?

Inspired by origami, we create modular chiral assemblies that achieve this with decoupled actuation! Out in @Nature!
https://t.co/trdHj3nOGJ

[Princeton University @Princeton]

Eight innovative research projects recently received funding through the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund, enabling researchers to make bold leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering. https://t.co/qgwvwJk2A7

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

@timtianchen Congrats Tim!🎉🎊

[Princeton University @Princeton]

Developed at Princeton, a new kind of origami robot can move around without a motor or any gears, instead relying on "carefully designed golding structures" to produce motion. https://t.co/JIJGgmknQ4

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

@m_alhafnawi @SciRobotics Huge congrats Merihan!! 🎊🎈🎉

[Anirudha Majumdar @Majumdar_Ani]

📢 We are very excited to announce the @Princeton Robotics Inaugural Symposium on April 20th, 2026.

Registration (free): https://t.co/Shk1R27XsA

At Princeton Robotics, we are pursuing a vision of humanity-driven robotics. Our inaugural symposium will bring together the Princeton community and leading figures from academia and industry to discuss how we can rethink every aspect of robotics research and education to better meet humanity's needs, challenges, and values.

We have an incredible list of speakers from both academia and industry:
Ken Goldberg (Berkeley)
Vikas Sindhwani (Google DeepMind)
Sarah Bergbreiter (CMU)
Andreea Bobu (MIT)
Tapo Bhattacharjee (Cornell)
Robert Cohen (Stryker)
Auke Ijspreet (EPFL)
Nadia Figueroa (UPenn)
Catie Cuan (Stanford)
Chen Li (JHU)

Hope you can join us!

[Glaucio H. Paulino @ghpaulino]

Dr. Shixi Zhang delivering a fascinating presentation on “mechanical frustration” at UPENN! Great work! https://t.co/IDI1Prvhz4 ⁦@Princeton⁩ ⁦@EPrinceton⁩ ⁦@ShuYangPenn⁩ ⁦@Penn⁩ ⁦@PrincetonMSE⁩

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

@chenna1985 The implementation is really great! Looking forward to the extended version!

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

@Princeton Thanks for sharing! Here is an illustration of the prosthetic limbs!

[Princeton University @Princeton]

Princeton engineers are twisting, stretching and creasing structures to create a new type of origami, one that changes its shape and properties in response to changing circumstances.

The new method could be useful for prosthetics, antennas and more. https://t.co/zT6iMmFIDo

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

@Princeton @PrincetonMSE @PrincetonCST @shixizang @ghpaulino @DiegoMisseroni @UniTrento

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

Can multistable origami assemblies vary their energy landscapes on the fly? We create a geometrical frustration system that achieves this! Our concepts apply across fields that require highly reconfigurable and multifunctional systems – e.g., prosthetic limbs.
Out in @PNASNews!

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

Paper link: https://t.co/wDaXbhqYxz

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

@Bolei_Deng @GTaerospace Congrats Bolei!! Beautiful work!🎊🎉

[Princeton Materials Institute @PrincetonMSE]

Origami engineering expert @ghpaulino recently appeared on the @NSF's Discovery Files show to discuss his latest research in origami-based metamaterials, how NSF has impacted his work, and future directions for his lab.

Watch: https://t.co/oVEPuuC22l

[Tuo Zhao @TuoZhao]

@astrofalls Beautiful bracing design. Is the structure reconfigurable?

[Glaucio H. Paulino @ghpaulino]

I will give a talk in the MS in honor of Philippe Geubelle at the 18th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. Check out my talk if you're attending the USNCCM18! - via #Whova event app ⁦@EPrinceton⁩ ⁦@Princeton⁩ ⁦@UofIllinois⁩ ⁦@uofigrainger⁩

[Jyotirmoy Mandal @Jyoti299792458]

What if we could make building facades lose heat to the cold sky above, but not gain heat from the hot cityscape in the summer? That could drastically reduce cooling loads in buildings and cool urban canyons. Read about our work on the topic here: https://t.co/jPm7YYeZ0v

[Liquids&Elasticity LAB @Princeton @LiquidsLab]

Are you interested in a postdoc in fluid mechanics/ 3d printing/ soft robotics/ active matter... This call might be for you https://t.co/KWExpMmi5B
Reach out if interested, I am now in Belgium @KU_Leuven

[Andlinger Center @AndlingerCenter]

May newsletter highlights:
• A game-changer for critical minerals
• Unpacking an origami-inspired metamaterial
• Summer intern spotlight, featuring @MoonshotWater

Read more & subscribe: https://t.co/KYXkmtITkr

[Princeton Engineering @EPrinceton]

Princeton researchers drew inspiration from the folding art of origami to create a structure that blurs the lines between robotics and materials. Read the paper about "metabots" at this link: https://t.co/p5VIh6u7wm