Articles from September 2021
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.
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.