Euisun Kim defended PhD thesis
December 5th 2019. Eusiun successfully defended her PhD thesis on Robotic Induction of Neuromodulation via Paired Brain Stimulation with Mechanical Stimulation. Congratulations, Dr. Kim!!
PRMRP Discovery Award on Multi-actuator MRE
A collaborative project with Dr. Mehmet Kurt at the Stevens Institute of Technology receives $280K Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Discovery Award from Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), US Army. This project will develop multi-actuator technology for magnetic resonance elastography (MRE).
Paper published in Experimental Brain Research
Nayef E. Ahmar, Jun Ueda, Minoru Shinohar, Anti-phase co-contraction practice attenuates in-phase oscillations between antagonistic muscles as assessed with phase coherence, Experimental Brain Research, November 2019 [LINK]. This material was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS 1317718 (National Robotics Initiative) Abstract: Voluntary contraction of skeletal muscles…
Mike’s paper receives 2019 DSCC Vibrations Technical Committee Best Paper Award in Theory

Michael LiBretto, Yong K. Cho, Yong Han Ahn, Chang Soo Han, Jun Ueda, 2019 DSCC Vibrations Technical Committee Best Paper Award in Theory, “Configuration Optimization For End-Point Stabilization Of Redundant Manipulators With Base Flexibility” ASME DSCC 2019, October, in Utah. This work was supported by AFOSR, Hybrid Site Sensing and…
IRIM Seed Grant 2019 on High-Precision MRI-guided Robot
Our team just got one more year on this project.
Tiny Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World’s Smallest Ant

Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators, ultrasound sources or even tiny speakers. A paper describing the micro-bristle-bots has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. The research was supported by a seed grant from…
Alex Zabaldo receives President’s Undergraduate Research Award
Alex has been selected one of the recipients of the prestigious undergraduate research awards (http://www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu/content/presidents-undergraduate-research-awards). Congratulations!
IRIM Seed Grant 2018 on High-Precision MRI-guided Robot
A collaborative project between GTRI (Dr. Ai-Ping Hu), Emory University (Dr. John Oshinski) and GT (Dr. Ueda) receives $50K seed grant from the 2018 IRIM Seed Grant Program. The project will develop a new robotic system for cell injection.
Ellenor Brown has been selected as ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow at FDA
A lab graduate, Dr. Ellenor Brown (PhD in Applied Physiology, 2017), receives ORISE Postdoctoral fellowship at FDA. Congratulations!!