The Faboratory

11/21/2025

Our soft robots showed off their best moves for Daniela Rus last week 🦾🤖 Really grateful for the visit!

05/21/2025

We hosted an ICRA 2025 satellite event at Yale! Big thanks to everyone who joined us for robotics talks and community 🦾🤖

04/22/2025

Sci-fi author Annalee Newitz visited our lab a few weeks ago! We talked about soft robots, human-robot interaction, and their new book coming out soon 👀📖🤖

02/14/2025

Our latest review explores how softness enables natural burrowers to move efficiently underground, and how these biological insights can advance the next generation of burrowing robots. Links to our article and video are below and in our bio!

🔗 Read our paper here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2025.1525186/full

🎥 Watch our video here:
https://youtu.be/AtW663xQLug

Le CL, Yirmibesoglu OD, Even S, Buckner T, Ozkan-Aydin Y and Kramer-Bottiglio R (2025) Grand challenges for burrowing soft robots. Front. Robot. AI 12:1525186. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2025.1525186

09/17/2024

Check out our publication on stretchable Arduinos!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adn6844

A new study in Science Robotics describes how stretchable Arduino boards embedded in soft robots and smart garments can control locomotion and sense a user’s movements. https://scim.ag/8lr

05/17/2024

We are thrilled to announce that our incredible PI, Professor Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, has been awarded the prestigious NSF Alan T. Waterman Award! We couldn't be prouder of her groundbreaking work and dedication to pushing the boundaries of materials science and engineering.

Join us in congratulating our PI on this remarkable achievement!