Thank you @NicolettaML and Journal of Experimental Biology for these great features about our latest J. Experimental Biology paper with Robot Form and Function Lab Sarah Bergbreiter Adam P. Summers @ChifromT journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22… livescience.com/trap-jaw-ants-…

Trap-jaw ants could tear themselves apart when they fire off their mandibles but The Patek Lab Robot Form and Function Lab @dukebiology show how the ants push and pull the mandibles using energy stored in a tendon and their exoskeleton to drive the jaws in a perfect arc journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Our new collaborative pub integrates experimental & math modeling to reveal extraordinary latch dynamics & ultrafast spring propulsion of NC snapping shrimp Journal of Experimental Biology Duke Marine Lab Sarah Bergbreiter Robot Form and Function Lab Sarah Longo zanne cox & Ben Schelling journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

Congratulations to Shashwat Singh for successfully defending his MS thesis. Truly impressive robot engineering! We wish you all the best as you start your PhD with the ZoomLab

Our CSE summer student from @UBSTEM, Megdess, did truly outstanding at her poster and amazing work all summer!

Congratulations to Aniket who successfully defended his MS thesis this December. Aniket will be continuing on as a PhD student at UB, co-advised in the Robot Form and Function Lab

We are looking forward to sharing our work on jumping microrobots at #ICRA2024. Led by Shashwat Singh, we collaborated with ZoomLab to bring small robots to new heights.

Our lab got to show off some of our robots at #EngineersWeek at the BuffaloMuseumofScience

Our recent work on a highly mobile millirobot is now available in IEEE RA-L on early access (ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10465…) Lead by Shashwat Singh, the Buffalo Byte is an autonomous millirobot that is capable of moving on natural terrain, bringing small robots out of the lab!

Our newest jumping microrobot work looks at how springs and actuators are tuned relative to the geometry of torque reversal latches. Combinations of springs, latches, and actuation can result in controllable outputs of a small, 350 mg jumping microrobot. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Happy #NationalRoboticsWeek !! To celebrate, check out some of the miniature robots that have been developed in #UBSEAS 🤖 🤖 From mimicking the powerful movements of a snapping shrimp to leveraging size to navigate challenging terrain, these small bots can have big impacts!

#UBSEAS researchers are developing tiny affective robots that can display happy, sad, surprised, angry and neutral emotional expressions in response to human tactile handling. Learn more about the purpose of the tiny bot here: ubseas.info/4eJrR2v #UBuffalo #UBMAE #UBCSE