Articles from September 2021

Caterina Lamuta poses for a portrait in her lab.

UI researchers make artificial muscles with grant

Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Caterina Lamuta, assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering, is creating artificial muscles based on tentacle-like limbs.
Photo of Caterina Lamuta

UI mechanical engineering professor receives DARPA Young Investigator Award to develop soft robots inspired by cephalopods’ tentacles

Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Caterina Lamuta was recently awarded a prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new self-morphing, stretchable soft skins (S⁴) for use in underwater vehicles and robots.