Research news
SUTD’s Research on a Multi-Robot System Wins Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE MRS 2019
ORION is a first-of-its-kind multi-robot system made up of a wheeled ground unit, miniature and wall-climbing robots to form a scalable swarming system similar to ant colonies.
Researchers develop process flow for high-res 3D printing of mini soft robotic actuators
SUTD, SUSTech and ZJU researchers’ proposed process flow guides 3D printing of miniature soft pneumatic actuators. Integrating the prints into a robotic system offers potential applications in jet-engine maintenance and minimally invasive surgery.
Researchers’ review paper reveal insights into high quality fabrication of nanocomposites
SUTD together with research collaborators provide much needed analysis and review of the emerging research on particle reinforced metal matrix nanocomposites with selective laser melting, charting out possibilities for engineering applications.
SUTD researchers develop a rapid, low-cost method to 3D print microfluidic devices
“By controlling the distance between the top and bottom substrates, we were able to precisely reduce the channel width up to around 30 microns.” said lead author Terry Ching, a graduate student from SUTD.
SUTD researchers developed a unique method of fabricating 3D porous structures
Researchers from SUTD’s Soft Fluidics Lab developed a novel 3D printing method to fabricate 3D porous models in one single step.
3D microchannels promote self-assembly of ordered emulsions at low droplet concentrations
Team of SUTD researchers led by Assistant Professor Michinao Hashimoto has discovered an elegant way to achieve self-assembly of low density droplets in microfluidic flows using three dimensional (3D) microchannels.
Researchers develop novel framework for tracking developments in optical sensors
SUTD researchers together with international researchers established a 3D technology map which systematically compares optical sensors.
Optical security: Tunable-resonator upconverted emission color printing
The presented optical security devices have potential applications in deterring counterfeiting of important documents and packages of high-value medicines.
SUTD uncovers the power of dynamically rewiring swarm robotic systems
“Given the explosion in the development of distributed/decentralized systems, this research shows that a dynamic rewiring of the interaction network is essential to the effective collective operations of these complex engineered systems at different time scales.”
SUTD researchers develop a hydrogel for enhanced cell encapsulation and delivery
The SUTD researchers developed the CNF hydrogel which allows for its transformation from a solid hydrogel to a fluid when subjected to stress, and back to a solid hydrogel in less than a minute.
