Tuo Zhao

Material? Robot? It’s a metabot. "You can transform between a material and a robot, and it is controllable with an external magnetic field." — Glaucio Paulino, @eprinceton professor In an article published in @Nature, researchers describe how they drew inspiration from origami to create a structure that blurs the lines between robotics and materials. The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material’s physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In this case, the researchers built their metamaterial using a combination of simple plastics and custom-made magnetic composites. Using a magnetic field, the researchers changed the metamaterial’s structure, causing it to expand, move and deform in different directions, all remotely without touching the metamaterial. The team called their creation a “metabot” — a metamaterial that can shift its shape and move: bit.ly/43fERsn

EML co-Editor-in-Chief @ProfZhaoMIT has been elected as one of 163 scholars worldwide to the Class of 2025 Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)! 🎉 AIMBE represents the top minds in medical and biological engineering. Congratulations!

In an experiment reminiscent of the Transformers movies, @Princeton engineers created a type of material that can expand, assume new shapes, move and follow electromagnetic commands like a remotely controlled robot even though it lacks internal gears: engineering.princeton.edu/ne…

New Paper Alert 🚨! I am excited to share the newest work from the BAM lab @EPrinceton! This @PNASNews paper presents a distributed passive feather-inspired flow control system. It work is a labor of love, an idea we have been working on for many years. 🧵youtube.com/watch?v=dLlJRujB…

Thanks for highlighting our work @apsfluiddynamic 🙌

.@ghpaulino and the Origami Engineering class invites you to its trade Show event on Sunday, December 17, 9 a.m.- noon in the Friend Center Convocation Room. Come see the amazing and useful works @Princeton Engineering students have created using the ancient art of #origami.

こういうスライドをずっと使い続けていましたが、ついに実現しました。

“A defect by design is no longer a defective flaw." @EPrinceton researchers drew inspiration from the art of origami to create programmable surfaces that allow engineers to alter physical properties of a uniform substance across a range of directions. bit.ly/3sU44WC

Glad to have launched first of internal Advanced Manufacturing Series today with 10 great lighting-talk speakers including Dr. Tuo Zhao (@ghpaulino lab); co-organized together with @cemilyd, PT Brun, and @CraigArnoldLab! More to come!

🚨🗓️Advertising our Physics of Morphing Matter @Princeton (with @cemilyd @ghpaulino and A. Kosmrlj) We'll cover a bunch of topics that involve shape changes 🐝 🤖 💻 🦑🧪✂️ (lineup in the poster). Registration is free but required.

We are so excited about our new fall course, Origami Engineering, with @ghpaulino and Tuo Zhao! 👏 Check it out: cst.princeton.edu/cee-345

New review from our lab out now! nature.com/articles/s41578-0…

Thrilled to share that we have been selected to receive a DOE Early Career Award to support our work probing liquid crystal elastomer network structure and phase behavior! Thanks to my wonderful little (but growing!) group, and excited for the research! @doescience @EPrinceton

The 2022 Princeton Research Day videos are all online at mediacentral.princeton.edu/c…. Vote for your favorite by Mon., May 2 at 9 a.m.! See you next week, May 5 when we celebrate in person and online! #PRD22