Material Robotics Laboratory

Material Robotics Lab Members

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MRL Members - 2022
MRL Members - 2021
MRL Members - 2020
Lab Social, Sept 2021
Lab Social, Sept 2021
Lab Social, Sept 2021

Professor Sheila Russo

Prof. Sheila Russo is the founder and director of the Material Robotics Laboratory at Boston University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include medical and surgical robotics, soft robotics, origami-inspired mechanisms, sensing and actuation, and meso- and micro-scale manufacturing techniques. In 2020, she received the NIH Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators.
She received her PhD from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy in 2014. She completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in 2017. Prof. Russo is also the co-founder and co-director of the Soft Materials Processing Core (SMPC) Lab at BU and she holds appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. She is also part of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University.