News

Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Soft multi-functional robots get really small

A new approach for fabricating soft materials at the millimeter scale paves the way to a new generation of flexible microrobots for medical and environmental tasks

(Left) Renita Horton, Ph.D. ’14 and Sydney Reed, an undergraduate who works in Horton’s lab at Mississippi State University, collaborated on research at Harvard this summer. (Photo by Adam Zewe/SEAS Communications)
Monday, August 13, 2018
Chain reactions

Summer research program at Harvard brings alumna full circle

Researchers converted their three-finger soft manipulator to a two-finger version, seen here performing a pinch grasp on an extremely delicate sea cucumber. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
A soft, on-the-fly solution to a hard, underwater problem

Soft grippers can be 3D printed on board ships to safely sample different types of sea life

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17Aug
Deeply-rechargeable zinc anodes for high-energy aqueous batteries
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Applied Mechanics Colloquia
22Aug
Wearable Electrochemical Sensors: Toward Labs on the Skin or in the Mouth
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Topics in Bioengineering
7Sep
Fracking and Physics
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Applied Physics Colloquia