Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Faculty: Professor Agogino

Professor Agogino

AR for Stretchable Electronics

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The team developed a pathway to use Samsung’s stretchable electronics technology as a peripheral for Augmented Reality. The device gives users the capability to enter text and control an operating system using subtle and discrete hand motions. Team: Michael Oudenhoven, Ashis Ghosh, Purva Juvekar Advisors: Prof. Alice Agogino| Prof. Euiyoung Kim By utilizing human-centered design… Read More »

The Million Hands

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Over 200,000 upper limb amputees lack access to customizable, functional, and low-cost prostheses. The Million Hands team designed a selection of body-powered and electrically-powered prostheses, all under $500. Team: Aashish Bhardwaj, Sina Dabiri, Jose Ramirez, Meng-Hsuan Lee, Jacqueline Nguyen Advisor: Alice Agogino An Online Open Source Platform As a newly formed group in 2017, we set out to assess user… Read More »

Wind Power: Wildlife-Safe, Effective, Quiet

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Using human centered design and design-by-morphing, the team worked to modify a wind turbine to reduce its impact on the surrounding wildlife, lower its sonic impact, and integrate it into the natural landscape. MEng Team: Erica Horton, Austin Campbell, Ali Elashri, Chahal Neema Advising Team: Phil Marcus, Alice Agogino, Tom Flynn Forty percent of the… Read More »

Tensegrity

A Soft Robot

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Project Description Recently there has been growing interesting in the field of soft robotics, which features robots that are flexible yet robust. A Tensegrity robot is a form of soft robot that is comprised of a series of rods under compressional load joined together by cables under tensional load; through proper actuation of those cable it… Read More »