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In the Bioinspired and Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory (Bio2Robotics Lab), we aim to study and develop bio-inspired and soft robotic systems that learn from physical interaction with unknown, unstructured, and dynamic environments for mobility and manipulation. Our research focuses on the development of new approaches in Nonlinear Dynamics, Concurrent Learning and Control, Morphological Computation, and Design Principles of soft-bodied and hybrid soft-and-rigid-bodied robotic systems to achieve autonomy, embodied intelligence, robustness, and adaptability for operation in a variety of applications, including wearable robotics, human performance augmenting exoskeletons, agriculture, manipulators, and mobile robots. Towards this goal, we study locomotion and manipulation in biological systems, animals, and the human body from sensory and motor control perspectives to design and develop novel continuum, configurable, and compliant robotic structures that address limitations in conventional rigid robotic approaches. We use additive manufacturing, polymer, and textile-based fabrication techniques to develop these unconventional robots to test and validate our theoretical approaches.
News Highlights:
(01/21/26) Two peer-reviewed conference papers from our group have been accepted to the 2026 American Control Conference (ACC) which will be held in New Orleans in May, 2026. Sabrina is the first author of one of the paper titled "A Physics-informed Geometric Model for Characterizing Force and Length Variation of McKibben Pneumatic Artificial Muscles". Congratulations on your first research paper accepted for publication and presentation!
(10/31/2025) the Bio-squared Robotics Lab had four posters and one oral presentations by graduate and undergraduate students, Ayla (PhD student), James (master's Student), Sabrina (undergraduate student), and Hayden (undergraduate student) at the 2025 Southwest Robotics Symposium hosted by Arizona State University (ASU), October 31st-November 1st, 2025, Tempe, AZ.
(08/02/2025) In a collaboration with Dr. Young Ho Park (Lead PI) with the NMSU MAE Department, We received an NMSU IAAM Research Minigrant program award for the project titled “Bridging Simulation and Reality: A Zero Shot AI Framework for Scalable Automation in Robotic Agriculture”. This is a one-year project to conduct research on a scalable and ethically grounded AI framework for autonomous chile harvesting that targets critical labor and productivity challenge in agriculture. This is one of the projects selected by the Institute for Applied Practice in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at NMSU.
(06/23/2025) A collaborative paper on "Multi-Agent Task Allocation for Agricultural Robotics-Based Soil and Crops Monitoring" has been accepted to ASME 2025 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2025), this is paper led by Dr. Sevil's group at University of West Florida on our Agricultural Robotics project.
(06/01/2025) Our paper on "Learning Force and Motion Parameters of Human-Wearable-Robot Interaction Using a Multi-Tasking Soft Fluidic Actuator-Based Physical Reservoir Computing" has been accepted to ASME 2025 Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS2025), this is an invited paper for the special symposium on Physical Computing and Mechano-Intelligence. Congratulations Dr. Alam!
Current Positions and Opportunities:
Master's students with Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering background (Minimum GPA 3.5) who are interested in ME/AE thesis-based program, please contact Dr. Haghshenas-Jaryani (mahdihj@nmsu.edu) with your CV and transcripts.
Undergraduate students (Minimum GPA 3.5, available at least 15 hrs. per week) who are interested to gain experience in robotics research are encouraged to contact Dr. Haghshenas-Jaryani (mahdihj@nmsu.edu)
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