Welcome to the Intelligent Design and Robotics Lab (IDR Lab). We develop intelligent computational methods for engineering design — spanning generative design, CAD/CAE, mechanism synthesis, robotics, mixed reality simulation, embodied AI, and theoretical kinematics — and we also build, prototype, and physically validate the mechanisms and robots we design, from AI-driven mechanism and robot design and autonomous manipulation to mixed reality teleoperation and the design, manufacturing, and control of soft and compliant robotic systems. Learn more on our Research and Publications pages, or watch lab demos on our YouTube channel.
News
- 2026/04/10 Jessica Sillus successfully defended her M.S. thesis titled “Design, Simulation, and Manufacturing of a Tendon Driven Compliant Robotic Gripper With 3D Printed Force Sensing Capabilities for Space Applications.”
- 2026/04/07 Quill van Roodselaar successfully defended her undergraduate thesis titled “Design and Analysis of a Precise Linkage-Driven Robotic Hand for Manufacturing Applications.”
- 2026/02 Our paper “Large Language Model Assisted Human-AI Collaborative Development of Analytical Inverse Kinematics Solvers for Robot Manipulators” was accepted to Mechanism and Machine Theory.