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(04/30/2025) Our all three papers have been accepted for publication and presentation at the 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE) which will be held in Anaheim, CA, August 17-20. Congratulations to Dr. Alam, Ayla, and James (his first paper) who are the first author of each paper!

(04/01/2025) Our abstract 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 a collaborative paper with Dr. Sevil's group at University of West Florida on our Agricultural Robotics project.

Aggie Battle-Bot Capstone team has got the second place in the 3lb class robots at the  Miner Mayhem 2025, a statewide robotics competition held at the NM Tech, Socorro, March 29th, 2025. Congratulations to Aaron, Cody, Dylan and Jose!   

(03/27/2025) Umme has successfully defended her PhD dissertation, Congratulations Dr. Alam!

(03/24/2025) Our abstract 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.

(02/21/2025) Umme's journal paper "Modeling a Hybrid Soft-and-Rigid Robotic Exo-digit with Varying Length Soft Segments Coupled to a Human Finger", has been accepted in the Journal of Medical Robotics Research.  Congratulations Umme, way to go!

(02/17/2025) Umme's paper "Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Variable Length Soft Fluidic Actuators for Wearable Rehabilitation Robots", has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 2025 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR 2025), which will be held May 14-16, 2025, at Georgia Tech.  Congratulations Umme, way to go!

(11/4/2024) Our paper on " A Ground Robotic System for Crops and Soil Monitoring and Data Collection in New Mexico Chile Pepper Farms" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Discover Agriculture, special issue on Robotics Applications in Horticultural Production, this work is based on the master's thesis of Jordan Linford, my former graduate student, Congratulations Jordan and good luck with your future endeavors!

(10/28/2024) Ayla has successfully defended her Master's Thesis, congratulations and way to go!

(06/18/2024) Our paper "Model-based Control for a Coupled Soft Robotic Exo-digit and Anthropomorphic Finger with Multi-Contact Point Physical Interaction" was among the finalists for the Best Conference Paper Award at the International Symposium of Medical Robotics (ISMR), in Georgia Tech, June 3-5, 2024. We have also been invited to submit an extended version of the paper to a special issue of the Journal of Medical Robotics Research (JMRR), Congratulations Umme, great Job!

(06/06/2024) Umme and Ayla received the IEEE/ASME AIM travel award to participate and present their papers at the 2024 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2024), which will be held in Boston, MA, from July 14-19, 2024. Congratulations to both of you, way to go!

(06/01/2024) Ayla has been awarded the NASA Graduate Research Fellowship for second time through the NM Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) for 2024-2025, Congratulations Ayla!

(04/21/2024) Our two papers on "Dynamic Modeling and Design Optimization of an Artificial Muscle-Driven Limbless Robot for Agile Locomotion" and "Automated Harvesting of Green Chile Peppers with a Deep Learning-based Vision-enabled Robotic Arm," have been accepted for publication and presentation at the 2024 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), July 15-18, 2024, Boston, USA. The second paper is in collaboration with Dr. Laura Boucheron's research group in the Klipsch school of Electrical & Computer Engineering at NMSU. Congratulations to my graduate students: Ayla (her first paper) and Umme (three for three so far)!

(04/17/2024) We received a NASA RIA  research grant award for the project titled “Muscle-Driven Limbless Robot Locomotion for Planetary Extreme Access Environments Navigation”. This is a 2-year project to conduct research and develop pneumatic artificial muscle-driven snake-like robots for the lunar extreme access navigation.

(03/12/2024) Umme has received  the RoboSoft 2024 travel awards to participate and present her paper at  the 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), which will be held in San Diego, CA, from April 14-17, 2024, Congratulations Umme, way to go!

(03/01/2024) Our paper on "Model-based Control for a Coupled Soft Robotic Exo-digit and Anthropomorphic Finger with Multi-Contact Point Physical Interaction" has been accepted for publication and presentation at the International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR 2024), June 3-5, 2024, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, Congratulations Umme!

(02/21/2024) Our paper on "Combined Soft Grasping and Crawling Locomotor Robot for Exterior Navigation of Tubular Structures" has been accepted for publication in Machines, Congratulations to my former undergraduate student Nicolas Mendoza for his work on this project, wish you good luck!

(01/22/2024) Our invited paper on "Morphological Computation by Exploiting Partial Feedback Linearizable Underactuated Soft-bodied Systems" has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) to be hold in Toronto, Canada, from July 8-12, 2024.

(01/18/2024) Our paper on "Learning Contact Forces in Human-Wearable-Robot Interaction using Morphological Computation" has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), to be hold in San Diego, CA, from April 14-17, 2024, Congratulations Umme!

(11/15/2023) We received a USDA/NIFA  research grant award for the project titled “Robot-Enabled Soil And Crops Monitoring For Precision Agriculture And Water Management In NM Green Chile Pepper Farming”. This is a collaboration between our Lab and Dr. Manoj Shukla from the dept. of Plant & Environmental Sciences, Dr. Stephanie Walker from the dept. of Extension Plant Sciences (College of Agricultural, Customer, and Environmental Sciences) at NMSU, and Dr. Hakki Sevil from the department of Intelligent Systems and Robotics  at the University of West Florida (UWF).

(10/25/2023) Our paper on "Modeling Multi-Contact Point Physical Interaction between the Anthropomorphic Finger and Soft Robotic Exo-digit for Wearable Rehabilitation Robotics Applications" has been published in the Frontiers Robotics and AI, Congratulations to PhD student Umme, and former students Kassidy, Joshua, and Kayla!

(10/02/2023) Our two papers on "Timoshenko Beam-based Analytical Formulation and Numerical Simulation of Continuum Soft-bodied Robotic Arms" and "Dynamic Modeling and Trajectory Control of a Soft Cylindrical Rolling Robot with Shape Morphing-based Steering Mechanism" have been accepted for publication and presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO 2023), Samui, Thailand, in December.

(06/20/2023) Our paper on "A Study of Energy-efficient and Optimal Locomotion in a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle-driven Snake Robot" has been published in Robotics. Congratulations Marcela!

(05/31/2023) Our paper on "Trajectory Control in Discrete-Time Nonlinear Coupling Dynamics of a Soft Exo-Digit and a Human Finger Using Input–Output Feedback Linearization" has been published in Automation, Congratulations to Umme and Kassidy!

(05/15/2023) Ayla has been awarded a NASA Graduate Research Fellowship through the NM Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) for 2023-2024 academic year regarding her work on energy-efficient muscle-driven snake robots locomotion, Congratulation Ayla, Way to go! 

(05/09/2023) Umme has received the "First Year Women and Minorities in Doctoral Studies" Scholarship from the NMSU Graduate School, this award designed to build a more robust representation of women and non-white minorities in the NMSU doctoral-level graduate community. Congratulations Umme, way to go! 

(04/18/2023) Nico has won the second place in Outstanding Poster at 2023 Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity Symposium (URCAS 2023). Congratulations Nico, Way to go!

(03/03/2023) Umme has won the 1st place award in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Presentation at NMSU Research and Creativity week. Congratulations Umme, way to go!

(12/23/2022) We were part of a  journal paper on “Golden wheel spider-inspired rolling robots for planetary exploration”, published in Acta Astronautica, 2023. This is a collaboration on bio-inspired robots for space exploration with Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian research group at NM Tech university.

(12/14/2022) We are grateful to NASA and NM Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) for funding our project on "Energy-efficient Artificial Muscle-driven Limbless Robot Locomotion for Space Exploration". 

(10/01/2022) Our paper on "Workspace Study of Floating-Base Ground Mobile Manipulator for Soil Moisture Monitoring in NM-Type Green Chile Pepper Farming" has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integrations (SII) (SII 2023) to be held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta on Jan. 17-20, 2023. Congratulations Jordan, Way to go!

(07/15/2022) Our paper on "Exploiting Morphology of Underactuated Two-segment Soft-bodied Robotic Arm for Swing-up Control" has been accepted for publication in the  Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems.

(07/15/2022) Our paper on "Dynamics and Computed-Muscle-Force Control of a Planar Muscle-Driven Snake Robot" has been accepted for publication in Actuators

(06/15/2022) Our paper on "An Inflatable Soft Crawling Robot With Nondestructive Testing Capability for Overhead Power Line Inspection" has been accepted for publication and presentation in 2022 ASME IMECE conference at Columbus, OH, this work is in collaboration with Dr. Ehsan Dehghan-Niri's research group at NMSU. Congratulations Nico, Way to go!

(05/25/2022) Our paper on "Adaptive Quasi-Static Motion Control of a Soft Robotic Exo-Digit in physical Human-Wearable-Soft-Robot-Interaction " has been accepted for presentation and publication in IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Mexico City, Mexico, August 20-24, 2022.

(05/18/2022) Marcela has been awarded a NASA Graduate Research Fellowship through the NM Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) for 2022-2023 academic year regarding her work on muscle-driven snake robots , Congratulation Marcela, Way to go! 

(04/12/2022) We were part of a  journal paper on “Chile pepper (Capsicum) breeding and improvement in the "multi-omics" era”, accepted for publication in Frontiers in Plant Science, section Plant Breeding, 2022. This is a collaboration on robotic chile pepper harvesting with Dr. Dennis  Lozada and Dr. Stephanie Walker form the NMSU Chile Pepper Institute.

(03/28/2022) Our abstract on "An Inflatable Soft Crawling Robot With Nondestructive Testing Capability for Overhead Power Line Inspection" has been accepted in 2022 ASME IMECE conference at Columbus, OH, this work is in collaboration with Dr. Ehsan Dehghan-Niri's research group at NMSU. Congratulations Nico, Way to go!

(03/28/2022) Our paper on "Maneuvering Control of a Planar Snake Robot Locomotion Using a Combined Heading-Velocity-Shape Strategy " has been accepted for presentation and publication in 2022 ASME IDETC conference at St. Louis, Missouri.

(02/04/2022) Congratulations to Nico for receiving the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (New Mexico AMP) scholarship 

(02/01/2021)  Nico Mendoza, Mark Walters, and Kayla Yaksich have joined our research group, Welcome!

(12/31/2021) Our paper on a Muscle-driven Mechanism for Snake-robot Locomotion has been published in Automation, Congratulations Marcela, Way to go!

(09/10/2021) Congratulations to Rafael for receiving the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (New Mexico AMP) scholarship 

(06/14/2021)  Maria Ordonez, Trevor Karpinski, and Rafael Calleros have joined our research group, Welcome!

(06/01/2021) Congratulations to Maria for receiving the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (New Mexico AMP) scholarship 

(05/14/2021) Congratulations to Marcela, Jordan, and Joselyn for the graduation, no more undergraduate!

(04/12/2021) Our paper on a Muscle-driven Mechanism for Snake-robot Locomotion has been accepted to the 34th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics  (FCRAR 2021), Congratulations Marcela, Way to go!

(02/05/2021) Congratulations to Marcela for receiving the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (New Mexico AMP) scholarship 

(02/01/2021) We are grateful to the USDA/NIFA for funding our project on Harvesting Robotic System for Green Chile Pepper. This is a collaboration between our Lab and Prof. Laura Boucheron from the Klipsch school of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dr. Stephanie Walker from the dept. of Extension Plant Sciences (College of Agricultural, Customer, and Environmental Sciences) at NMSU.

(01/05/2021) Muhammad Umar Masood, Chanuka Gunarathne, Marcela Lopez, and Jordan Linford have joined the Bio2Robotics Lab, welcome!

(06/30/2020) Our paper in collaboration with Prof. Hakki Sevil from UWF on Autonomous Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance of a Snake Robot with Combined Velocity-Heading Control  has been accepted to the 2020  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS  2020).

(06/29/2020) Some publicity about our CESFAS chile pepper robotic harvesting and monitoring project: https://newscenter.nmsu.edu/Articles/view/14297/nmsu-researchers-examine-robotic-harvesting-data-gathering-in-chile-pepper-fields 

(06/23/2020) We are grateful to the NASA and NM Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) for funding our project on Bio-inspired Shape-morphing Soft Robotic Mechanisms for Adaptive Locomotion in Space Exploration. 

(06/09/2020) Our paper in collaboration with Prof. Hakki Sevil from UWF and Prof. Liang Sun from NMSU on Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance of Snake-Robot Guided by a Co-Robot UAV Visual Servoing has been accepted to the 2020 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC  2020).

(06/02/2020) Joseph Moseley, Grace Igwe, and Teja Pacherla have joined the Bio2Robotics Lab, welcome!

(05/29/2020) We received a seed grant from the Center of Excellence in Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems (CESFAS) for Investigating Robotic Technology for Sustainable Chile Production and Harvest in New Mexico. This is a collaboration with Dr. Stephanie Walker from the dept. of Extension Plant Sciences  and Prof. Manuj Shukla from  the dept. of Plant & Environmental Sciences at NMSU (https://aces.nmsu.edu/cesfas/investigating-robotic-te.html). 

(05/08/2020) Our paper on quasi-static model-based control of soft robotic hand exoskeleton has been accepted to the 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2020).

(04/27/2020) Our paper in collaboration with Prof. Sevil's research group at UWF on Anomaly Detection in Joint Angle Sensor of a Snake Robot has been accepted to the 33rd Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics (FCRAR 2020). 

(01/20/2020) Efren Bolanos, Izak Rubio, and Diego Chavez have joined the Bio2Robotics Lab, welcome!

(08/21/2019) the Bio2Robotics Lab website has been officially launched.