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Chairbot
Physical and video prototypes investigate how furniture-like robots communicate movement, invitation, occupancy, and personality.
Read paper ↗This work was done at Cornell Tech in Wendy Ju’s IRL lab.
Research area
Prototyping
Methods and experiments for making emerging interactions tangible, testable, and easier to understand.
02
Smart Materials
Experiments with color, texture, softness, and responsive materials explore how a robot’s surface can communicate state and invite interaction.
Read more ↗This work was done in a Future Body Craft Course at Cornell.
03
Dressing Kinova
Draping and movement tests on a robotic arm reveal how fabric behaves around joints, pinch points, and changing poses.
This work was done in collaboration with Kari Love.
This work was done at Cornell Tech in Wendy Ju’s IRL lab.
04
Sewing Clothes for Robots
Pattern-making and iterative sewing turn research concepts into testable garments for nonhuman bodies.
Read paper ↗This work was done at Farm ng in Watsonville, CA.
05
HRI Workshop
An interactive workshop brought researchers and makers together to identify potential functions, risks, and future directions for robot clothing.
Read paper ↗This work was done at the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
06
Material Exploration
In-context explorations of color, texture, and movement reveal how robot clothing can protect hardware, signal status, and make motion more expressive and legible-including material studies for a Farm-ng electric tractor utility belt.
Read paper ↗This work was done at Farm ng in Watsonville, CA.
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Farm Robots - Mast Box
Field observation, contextual inquiry, and in-situ prototyping turned everyday farm work into concrete changes to robot controls, documentation, lighting, and tool storage.
This work was done at Farm ng in Watsonville, CA.