PhD position in light controlled variable stiffness for soft robotics

The Robotic Materials group is looking for a highly motivated PhD student for the topic oflight programmable stiffness for reconfigurable soft devices and robots. This 4-year PhD position is funded by our .

Project background

The introduction of fiber optics in the 1970s has revolutionized the telecommunications industry upon the replacement of copper wires and played a major role in the advent of the Information Age - One high bandwidth fiber optic cable can replace thousands of electrical links to transmit the same amount of information. As a parallel to the thriving fields of soft devices and robots controlled by electrical signals, soft optics is emerging as a new platform that uses the modulation of light in soft matter to encode multifunctionalities in the optical path. 

The first part of this project will center around developing light-stimulate...