2022 Winners & Finalists

Graduate Category Winners

G3 - A Lightweight Robotic Knee Prosthesis with Torque-Sensitive Nonlinear Elastic Actuation

Minh Quang Tran, University of Utah, USA

(1st Place Winner)

G1 - A Novel Tip-Stiffness Improved Compliant Continuum Robot Based on Anti-Buckling Universal Joints

Shiyao Li, Jiaxiang Zhu, Tinghao Liu, University College Cork, Ireland

(2nd Place Winnder)

G4 - The VEMO Antenna: A Self-deploying, Self-stabilizing, Origami-based Antenna

Hunter Pruett, Nathan Coleman, Antonio Rubio, Brigham Young University, USA

(3rd Place Winner)

Undergraduate Category Winners

U7 - A compliant Locking and Unlocking Mechanism for Launch Vehicle Applications

Shaojie Zhou,Huiwen Zhao, Guining Yu, Jiawen Wang, Feiyang Han, Dalian University of Technology, China

(1st Place Winner)

U1 - Design of a 4-Bar for a Hexapedal Walker

Joe Sommer, Joshua Hernandez, University of Notre Dame, USA

(2nd Place Winner)

U5 - Cable-driven reconfigurable robot based on tensegrity structures

Yi Zhang, Kaiwen Hu, Zhiwei Wang, Qingyu Bu, and Yuanqing Dong, Tianjin University, China

(3rd Place Winner)

Graduate Category Finalists

G5 - A Deployable Origami-Based Telescope Mechanism

Clark Roubicek, Brigham Young University, USA

G7 - A Multi-Locomotion Tensegrity Mobile Robot with High Load-to-Mass Ratio and Low Energy Consumption

Qi Yang, Xinyu Liu, Ze Yu, Yikun Jin, Tianjin University, China

G10 - Collaborative parallel robots with high payload-to-weight ratio for assembly in cabin

Pan Feng, Jintao Ma, Shuhua Zhou, Zhicheng Guo and Guannan Li, Tianjin University, China

G14 - An adaptive hand exoskeleton for delicate rehabilitation assistance

Xiuze Xia, Lijun Han, Yifan Wang, and Haoyu Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Undergraduate Category Finalists

U6 - Intelligent Venipuncture Robot

Haoyang Li, Zhiyuan Wu, Tenghui Xie, Zhifan Yan, and Jinhai Pan, Tongji University, China