News

• [Feb. 28, 2024] Tianlu was invited to deliver a seminar talk at the Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) [seminar link].

• [February 2024] Tianlu talked about cutting-edge soft robotics techniques for marine conservations at the AI for Good webinar organized by the International Telecommunications Union [webnar link][UH news].

• [November, 2023] Our HASEL-jellyfish robot has been recorded and reported by WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk).

• [November, 2023] Our collaborative review article about the clinical translation of wireless soft medical devices has been accepted by Nature Reviews Bioengineering. Stay tuned for our publication.

• [June, 2023] Tianlu has accepted the faculty offer from UH Manoa and will join and lead the SAIL from 2024!

• [April 25, 2023] Our work on using the jellyfish-like robotic platform for environmental applications has been reported by Forbes News! Please check it out.

• [April 12, 2023] Our paper titled "A versatile jellyfish-like robotic platform for effective underwater propulsion and manipulation" is now published in Science Advances!

• [December 14, 2022] Please check out my doctoral dissertation, 'Advanced Miniature Soft Robotic Systems' now online at ETH Research Collection!

• [September 15, 2022] Our work on medical Stentbot has been reported by MIT Technology Review - China!

• [August 25, 2022] I gave a talk titled 'Miniature soft robotics for biomechanics and biomedicine' at the Robotics Seminar at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

• [August 18, 2022] I received the Best Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference on Robotics in Ventura, California!

• [August 1, 2022] Our paper titled "Adaptive Wireless Millirobotic Locomotion Into Distal Vasculature" is now published in Nature Communications!

• [July 7, 2022] I am the recipient of the EUROMECH Young Researcher Award at the 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022)! Please check out our department news here.

• [May 5, 2021] Our paper titled "Effect of Body Stiffness Distribution on Larval Fish–like Efficient Undulatory Swimming" is now published in Science Advances!

• [March 15, 2021] Our recent work on the effect of body stiffness distribution on larval fish-like robot swimming has been officially accepted by Science Advances! Stay tuned for our publication!

• [June 19, 2020] Our paper titled "Ultrasound-Guided Wireless Tubular Robotic Anchoring System" is now published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters! This work will also be presented at IROS this year.

• [June 26, 2019] Our paper titled "A Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer" is awarded the Best Paper Award at Robotics: Science and Systems 2019!