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Fourth-year Coulter BME Ph.D. student Yilin Cai received two awards recognizing research on modular soft robotic systems that can adapt to different tasks and environments. The project, Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for Adaptive Loco-Manipulation, explores how identical robotic modules can be rearranged into different configurations, contributing to research in adaptable robotics and physical intelligence. The honors recognize work conducted with faculty advisor Yue Chen and collaborator Zhefeng Huang on robotic systems designed to reconfigure in response to changing needs.

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]]> 2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Fourth-year Coulter BME Ph.D. student Yilin Cai earned top honors at the 2026 ASME Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition and IROS for his research on modular, self-reconfigurable soft robots. Inspired by nature, the system uses interchangeable robotic building blocks that can be rearranged to perform different functions. ]]> 681515 image <![CDATA[Robotics-Award-Yilin.png]]> Yilin Cai (front) and Zhefeng Huang (rear) pose with the modular robotic system  

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