Transformative Robotics Lab
We create new robotic systems with novel manufacturing methods
What does the TRL do?
The Transformative Robotics Lab (TRL) at Northeastern Univerisity is part of the Institute for Experimental Robotics (IER). The lab is led by pricipal investigator, Prof. Jeff Lipton.
Robotics and manufacturing are intricately linked. Each new generation of robotic fabrication tools has transformed manufacturing, enabling greater complexity and customization of the world around us. With the recent developments in additive manufacturing new forms of mechanical metamaterials have become possible, changing how we make our robotic devices.
What are we learning?
The TRL explores how we can use robots to create novel materials and manufacturing methods, and how we can use novel materials and manufacturing methods to enhance the capabilities of robots?
The TRL lab demonstrates mathematical frameworks for making torque responsive materials, and how these materials form the basis for low-cost robotics.
The TRL lab examines how 3D printing can enable use to rapidly repurpose robotic systems to solve pressing manufacturing needs, and finally how mobile robotics can enable us to make new forms of scalable manufacturing solutions.
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News
| Apr 2, 2024 | Multiple TRL students are headed to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility this summer to advance printing and robotic innovations. |
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| Jan 28, 2024 | The HERDS paper has been accepted by IEEE Aerospace. Congrats to the authors: Mitchell Fogelson, Sawyer Thomas, Giusy Falcone, Jeffery Lipton, and Zac Manchester |
| Jan 7, 2024 | Coming Publication on expanding trusses |
| Jan 1, 2024 | New website for the TRL lab! |
