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 ...

Ryan Truby, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern Engineering, received a 2022 Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ryan Truby has received an Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP) award. An assistant professor of materials science and engineering and of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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.

“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 ...

“This team has brought chemically powered actuation to impressive length scales for robotics while also demonstrating impressive capabilities for insect-scale machines,” says Ryan ...

"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 ...