$2 Million Awarded to Illinois Tech Faculty for Novel Soft Robotics Research
Two Armour College of Engineering faculty members were recently awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to explore a new class of automatic, programmable machines: . Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Associate Professors Matthew Spenko and Ankit Srivastava are working in conjunction with two physics colleagues at the University of º£½ÇÂÒÂ× to develop the framework to understand the modeling, sensing, control, design, and fabrication of the robots.
