Welcome to the Harvard Microrobotics Lab

Our research focuses on design, fabrication, control, and analysis of biologically-inspired microrobots. Expertise in microfabrication and microsystem design, combined with insights from arthropods, enable us to create high-performance aerial and ambulatory microrobots. Such robotic platforms can be used for search and rescue operations, reconnaisance, environmental monitoring, and exploration of hazardous environments.

The lab was founded within the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences by Prof. Robert Wood. It houses all the necessary tools to create the micromechatronic components of robotic insects as well as soft robotics, multifunctional materials, and artificial muscles.

 

News Updates

• Postdoctoral and graduate student research positions now open. See the following link for details (6/2009)
• Congratulations to Katie Hoffman for winning a 2009 NSF fellowship (4/2009)
• Congratulations to Ben Finio, Katie Hoffman, and Mike Petralia for winning 2009 NDSEG fellowships (4/2009)
• Work of the Harvard Microrobotics Lab will appear in an upcoming exhibit at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, "Ecological Urbanism" (2/2009)
• Prof. Wood will give a plenary talk on "Robotic Insects" at the 2009 IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky (1/2009)