News

August 31st, 2022 - The first research from our group is published in Soft Matter. Learn how to measure capacitance of DEAs in real time while being actuated at high voltage to understand device performance.

August 31st, 2022 - Congratulations to Nour Dowedar and Ang Li for getting promoted to PhD!

July 11th, 2022 - Congratulations to Nour Dowedar for winning a 2022-2023 Ontario Graduate Scholarship!

July 8th, 2022 - Prof. Duduta is one of the winners of a Discovery Award from the Banting Foundation! Learn about it here.

July 1st, 2022 - A perspective article by Prof. Duduta is published in Advanced Intelligent Systems on Energy for Robotics.

June 1st, 2022 - Dhruvi Parekh joins the lab, pursuing an MASc degree.

May 27th, 2022 - Prof. Duduta is one of the organizers of a workshop at ICRA 2022, on Energy for Robotics.

May 12th, 2022 - The group wins a Market Assessment Grant from the NSERC Idea to Innovation program to study product - market fit of miniaturized steerable catheters.

May 11th, 2022 - Prof. Duduta is one of the organizers of a symposium at MRS 2022 on Robotic Materials for Advanced Machine Intelligence.

April 8th, 2022 - XSeed Grant (2022-2024) awarded to Profs. Duduta and Voznyy to study soft stretchable batteries.

April 8th, 2022 - EMHSeed Grant (2022-2024) awarded to Prof. Duduta and Dr. Nicholson to develop miniaturized catheters.

March 29th, 2022 - Congratulations to the students who won NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Awards, and will be joining the lab for projects this summer: Rohan Batchu, Atharva Dighe, Jerry Gu and Alaa Hatoum!

February 22nd, 2022 - The lab wins a major award for research infrastructure: the John R. Evans Leaders Fund from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

February 15th, 2022 - Congratulations to Masoud Moghani for winning a Weber and Mariano Graduate Scholarship in Biomedical Engineering for 2022-2023!

November 1st, 2021 - Dr. Siyoung Lee joins the lab, supported by a fellowship from the Korea Research Foundation.

September 1st, 2021 - Graduate students Nour Dowedar and Masoud Moghani join the lab, for MASc and PhD degrees.

June 1st, 2021 - Graduate students Ang Li and Haleh Shahsa join the lab, for MASc and PhD degrees.

May 5th, 20221- Congratulations to the students who won NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Awards, and MIE Departmental Awards to help kickstart the lab this summer: Altug Bilge, Atharva Dighe, and Vivian Luu!

May 4th, 2021 - MARB-L opening day. May the Force be with us!

April 15, 2021 - Prof. Duduta is awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant for fundamental research in dielectric elastomer actuators.