Kentaro Barhydt

I am a PhD candidate in the d’Arbeloff Robotics Lab at MIT Mechanical Engineering, advised by Prof. Harry Asada. My research develops novel robotic mechanisms and design paradigms for grasping and handling heavy, fragile, and varied payloads, expanding the applicability of robotic grasping toward historically challenging applications such as patient and elderly care, heavy industry manufacturing and material handling, agriculture, search and rescue, etc. 

Prior to MIT, I worked as a visiting researcher in the TRACE Lab at the UMass Lowell NERVE Center on bipedal robot locomotion. I received my M.S. from Tufts University, where I worked as a graduate research assistant in the Prof. William Messner Research Group on accessible assistive robot design, and in the Robot Locomotion and Biomechanics Lab on jumping robots. I received my B.S. at Union College, where I worked in the Evolutionary Robotics Group on tensegrity robots, and during which I worked at GE Global Research as an R&D Intern.

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