The Group

The Robotic Materials group headed by Prof. Hedan Bai was established in October 2023. We are an international and interdisciplinary team of material scientists, chemists and roboticists with a passion for futuristic robotics.

We take a bottom-up approach to robotics and develop materials that would enable unusual form and unconventional functions for broader robotic possibilities. We create soft materials with embedded physical intelligence for actuation, sensing and control functions and blur the line between autonomous materials and robotic systems.