Highlights

Creating bioinspired structures with 3D printing
Using toolpath-optimised deposition-based methods, an SUTD team of researchers has proposed an innovative approach to 3D-print bioinspired structures that could optimise designs in industries such as robotics and wearable technologies.


SUTD Staff and Students Work Together With Smart AI-Powered Robots in Beach Clean-Up
Four smart robots from SUTD made their way to Pasir Ris Park today to help their human teammates clean the beach – together with Guest-of-Honour, Mr Baey Yam Keng, Senior Parliamentary Secretary (SPS) for the Minister of Sustainability and the Environment as well as the Ministry of Transport, and the SUTD community comprising students, faculty and staff.

Advancing light control: New opportunities for metasurfaces in optoelectronics
Led by researchers from A*STAR IMRE and Stanford University, in collaboration NTU and SUTD – A global review of advancements in integrating metasurfaces—thin planar arrays of nanostructures—into optoelectronic devices highlights their potential to transform technologies such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), lasers, optical modulators, and photodetectors.
How these Singaporeans built a multi-million-dollar biz by manufacturing cleaning robots
LionsBot is one of the fastest growing companies in Singapore, ranking fifth in The Straits Times‘ annual list. SUTD’s Associate Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara is one of the company’s founders.

An innovative no-code prototype to automate design structure matrix generation
An SUTD researcher has developed a promising automated workflow that leverages a large language model to generate a design structure matrix in less than five minutes.


SUTD faculty recognised globally for exceptional research in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2024
SUTD’s Associate Provost for Research, Professor Chua Chee Kai, and Assistant Professor Xiong Zehui are among the 108 awardees from Singapore on Clarivate’s 2024 list of Highly Cited Researchers.


Capstone project showcased as one of 100 innovations at Prototypes for Humanity
The Multi-Agent Search and Rescue Drones (MASNRD) is a human-drone collaboration framework designed to locate victims in urban natural disasters using mobile device signals. It is one of 100 projects shortlisted for the showcase.

Inventors who designed device inspired by maple seed win James Dyson award for sustainability
Post-doctoral research fellows Shane Kyi Hla Win and Danial Sufiyan Shaiful were inspired to replicate this movement in a piece of technology that can reduce the electronic waste generated in weather forecasting.

More than a quarter of SUTD faculty ranked top 2% of world’s best scientists for 2023
The prestigious list, as compiled by Stanford University, is based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes more than 220,000 researchers from across the globe, classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.


A photonics breakthrough: Printing 3D photonic crystals that completely block light
A multi-institutional research team led by SUTD has developed a novel method that uses titanium resin to fabricate high-resolution 3D photonic crystals with a complete photonic bandgap in the visible range—a feat that has eluded scientists for decades.
