Electrical Skateboard During my freshman year at MIT, I joined MITERS, a student-run makerspace known for some of the most impressive and chaotic projects on campus. Eager to learn, I was excited to immerse myself into the community and absorb…
MASLAB Robot During IAP of my first year at MIT, I participated in MASLAB, also known as Mobile Autonomous System Laboratory. In this class, students form teams to design, build, and program an autonomous robot to compete against one another…
Biomechatronics Lab I began to research for the Biomechatronics Lab in Media Lab during the IAP of my freshman year. My project involved creating a soft robotic pneumatic system that could provide pressure feedback to lower extremity amputees. The system…
Improbable AI Lab During my sophomore year, I began to research at the Improbable AI Lab at MIT under the supervision of Haoshu Fang. One of the largest bottlenecks in the robotics revolution is access to a dataset that can…
WORMS During my sophomore year I joined WORMS, a club affiliated with the Aero Astro department at MIT working on further developing a legged robot that was initially developed in response to NASA’s Big Ideas Challenge. WORMS is a configurable…
Myoelectric Arm I’ve always been fascinated by prosthetics and exoskeletons. My research in the Biomechatronics Lab gave me a glimpse into the innovations driving these devices to more closely mimic natural limbs. Inspired by this experience, I set out during…
Ozzy (2.007 Robot) In the spring semester of my sophomore year, I took 2.007, a class where students build robots to compete in a themed competition at the end of the semester. For this year, the theme of the game…
Quadruped (In Progress!) I’ve always been fascinated by biomimetic robots, from MIT’s robotic cheetah to Boston Dynamics’ Spot. I was especially interested in learning the kinematics that define their movement. During the summer after my sophomore year of college, I…