In summer 2025 I had the exciting experience of being the technical mentor for an artist in residence in Sunglab, Erin Boyle. GRASP Lab news wrote a feature article on her residency and the resulting exhibition and workshop she created about actuated origami sculptures. The article was featured for a time on the Penn Engineering homepage.
An NSF News article features the Sung Robotics Lab’s work on origami robotics, including the Kinegami and CurveQuad projects I’m part of.
We held an outreach workshop at The Arts League about the use of origami in robotics, aiming to highlight the two-directional relationship between art and engineering. Participants folded and assembled their own origami robot. Penn Engineering made a video about it:
GRASP Lab news wrote a feature article on the Kinegami project that I’m part of. They wrote this when the project’s first paper (which was from before I joined) got an honorable mention for the T-RO best paper award: the article also discusses the future of the project including my OSME paper and ongoing work.
The video attachment to our IROS paper “CurveQuad: A Centimeter-Scale Origami Quadruped that Leverages Curved Creases to Self-Fold and Crawl with One Motor” was featured in IEEE Spectrum Robotics Video Friday and DigiKey Maker Update, and then Mashable made their own video about it!
