To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. To ...

“Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer,” said Northwestern’s Ryan Truby, who led the study. “If a soft robot hit a person, it would not hurt nearly as much as ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ian McCue and Ryan Truby have both received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA). McCue is the Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in ...

“Muscle is incredibly efficient. It’s 50% of the human body on average, at least for a male,” said Ryan Truby, PhD, an engineering professor at Northwestern University. “It’s this ...

Assistant professor Ryan Truby discusses his work in Northwestern Engineering's Robotic Matter Lab and what he admires about the school's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program. Ryan Truby is ...

and strengths allow [the] actuators to provide microrobots with locomotion capabilities that were previously available only to much larger robots,” writes Ryan Truby in a related Perspective.

"Many of the previous embodiments required tethers to external controllers or power sources," said PhD student Ryan Truby from Harvard University. "What we've tried to do is actually to replace ...

The research is published in Advanced Materials. "Our research represents a foundational advance in soft robotics," said Ryan Truby, first author of the paper and recent Ph.D. graduate at SEAS.

To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle.

"Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer," said Northwestern's Ryan Truby, who led the study. "If a soft robot hit a person, it would not hurt nearly as much ...

"Many of the previous embodiments required tethers to external controllers or power sources," said PhD student Ryan Truby from Harvard University. "What we've tried to do is actually to replace ...