Media Gallery

This page has links to many photos and movies from our research (including simulation, robots, and some biology) as well as photos of events related to the lab. We also have a more recent YouTube Channel. Visit this channel to see some of the newer movies.

Movies

• Programmable Active Soft Orthotics (New!)
  Bio-inspired active soft ankle-foot orthotic
• Self-Adapting Modular Robots
  Overview narrated movie
  Self-adaptation with tilt sensors
  Self-adaptation using pressure sensors
• Adaptive/Collective Locomotion (on a "deformable" modular robot)
  Pressure-adaptive Tetrapod
  Deformable Locomotion: Rolling, Sliding and Climbing
  Collective Locomotion on a Amorphous Modular Robot (ICRA10)

• The Termes Project (New!)
  Short Overview of Project Concept.
  Overview of Robot Design and 10-block staircase construction.
  Adaptive staircase construction.
• Collective Construction Algorithms
  2D Shape, Self-assembling SEAS logo!
  3D House , Self-assembling Space-Station, Self-Repairing Ribcage
• Robots for 2D construction
  ER1 Robot, using RFID-based stigmergy
  Lego robot building, Close-up (AAAI 2006), Lego arm.
  2 Lego robots building, Sambrero collision detection

Programmable Self-Assembly: Bio-inspired, Modular Robots and Swarms

• The Kilobot Project (New!)
  Introduction to single robot
  Small group behaviors (e.g orbiting)
  Collective behaviors (25 robots)
  IROS 2011 demo (100 robots)
  
• Self-Assembly and Self-Reconfiguration
  3D House , Self-assembling Space-Station, Self-Repairing Ribcage
  747 Modular Robot Airplane (with Kasper Stoy)
  Self-repairing Swarms Formations: ShapeX, repair, shift, movement.
• Amorphous Computing:
  Origami Shape Language (a) folding Cup (b) folding Airplane
  Directed Growth Language (a) growing a Cross (b) Ring.

• Firefly-inspired Desynchronization on Telos Motes
• SYNC: Mirollo-Strogatz simulations (50 node ring, 10x10 grid)
  DESYNC: Simulation (20 node line)

• Cell division in the (ex-vivo) Drosophila wing disc: Composite Movie
• Mechanical simulation of cell shape: Matlab Sim

• Overview Movie
• 1D Simulations: 100100 pattern on 1D async cellular automata 24 cells, 48 cells
• 2D "Embryo" Simulations: Stripes, Self-repairing Watermelon, Cross, DV-half

• Microsoft New faculty Fellowship Video, 2007
• Microrobot Swarms (a student-produced documentary)

Photos

If you'd like to use any of our images or photos, please email Radhika Nagpal for permission.

Selected People Photos

• SSR Group, Radhika, Harvard CS. Robocup

• The Termes Project
• Kilobot Project and other Swarms
• Self-Adapting Modular Robots
• Collective Construction Project
• Programmable Self-Assembly
• Biological Systems
• Outreach Program

[Group Photo Album Page]

• 2012: General events; CS266
• 2011: General events; IROS in San Fran; Lab Ski Trip
• 2010: General events; Robobee clambake; ICRA Competition; Chih-Han's defense & graduation; Lab Ski Trip (Feb)
• 2009: General events; SSR Kareoke,
• 2008: Yamin's Graduation; SASO and IROS; AAMAS 2008 (demo, harvard AI)
• 2007/06: Visit by Soren Lund, Director Lego Mindstorms, April 2007; AAAI 2006 (robot exhibition) ; Group BBQ, 2006 (Werfel PhD)
• 2005: Microsoft Faculty Summit, (award)

• Robot Soccer: RFC Robocup photos, CS199r (spring09), Robocup US Open 09 at Harvard
• CS266 (B-Z and dicty-cupcakes)
• CS51 TFs and Images