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The Biomedical Mechatronics (BM2) lab is affiliated to the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University. The overarching goal of our research lab is to build the scientific and technical foundations for robots and mechatronic system, and apply them in the medical and generalized industrial field. These systems include concentric tube robot, tendon driven robot, catheters, soft robots, and various custom-designed mechatronic/robotic system. We are particularly interested in the design, fabrication, modeling, and control of these platforms.
News
Aug, 2024 - Anthony Gunderman passed the PhD final defense. Congratulations, Dr. Gunderman!
Aug, 2024 -Our paper "Kinematics and Stiffness Modeling of Soft Robot With a Concentric Backbone." ASME. J. Mechanisms Robotics. October 2023; 15(5): 051011, has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics Best Paper Award.
May, 2024 -We are selected to parcipitate in the NIH C3i program and GT CreateX program.
Apr 26, 2024 - Master student Jason Sentosa matriculates to Duke-NUS Medical School MD program. Congratulations!
Apr 4, 2024 - PhD student Sam received the prestigious NSF GRFP award. What a wonderful start of Sam's PhD.
Mar 25, 2024 - Undergraduate student Valeria Perez has been awarded the Alfred H. Gibeling Family Research Fellowship Award. Huge congratulations to Valeria and her graduate mentor Zhefeng.
Mar 18, 2024 - We received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. Thanks for supporting our work, NSF!
Mar 11, 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Chen on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!
Feb 5, 2024 - BM2 lab PhD student Anthony Gunderman received the tenure track faculty position. Huge congratulations!
Nov 13, 2023 - We received the Year-2 support from the IBB seed grant.
Oct 31, 2023 - We received a new grant from Georgia Research Alliance to investigate the liver interventional robot. This project is led by Sam Wilcox. Congratulations!
Oct 10, 2023 -We received NSF-NIFA NRI funding support. It is a collabroative project with Dr. Ye Zhao (GT ME), and Dr. Xin Zhang (MSU). We are excited to explore this new research direction.
Oct 7, 2023 -We received the dVRK from Intuitive. Excited to have the new research tool.
Aug 31, 2023 -Anthony's paper "Non-metallic MR-guided Concentric Tube Robot for Intracerebral Hemorrhage Evacuation" has been selected as the featured article by IEEE TBME. Congratulations.
Jul 13, 2023 -PhD student Anthony Gunderman received the prestigious Herbert P. Haley Fellowship. Congratulations.
Jul 6, 2023 -We received an internal grant to support research in continuum robot based engine inspection. Snake eyes: 3D scene reconstruction using a biologically-inspired continuum robot for engine inspection.
Jun 27, 2023 -We received a new R01 grant. Thanks for supporting our research, NIH!
Jun 9, 2023 -We received the Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Best Student Paper Award from SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2023.
April 24, 2023 -We received the 2023 ASHS Outstanding Fruit Publication Award.
Sep 16, 2022 -We received a new R41 grant from NIH. This is in collaboration with JHU and Mirtech Inc.
Jun 30, 2022 -We received the McCamish Blue Sky Award. This is in collaboration with Emory collaborators Deqiang Qiu, John Oshinski, and Nick Boulis.
May 12, 2022 -We received the Georgia Tech EVPR grant to support the soft robot development.
May 25 2022 -We presented our soft robotic gripper at ICRA 2022 and our work is gaining attention in news articles, and ASME article.
Feb 6, 2022 -We have three RAL papers accepted by ICRA 2022. Congratulations team!
Dec 18, 2021 -We received a grant to support our soft robotic harvesting project. This is our first funded project at Georgia Institute of Technology. Thanks for the support from IRIM and GTRI.
Sep, 2021 -We moved to the BME department at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory.