导师风采 Supervisor's Information

Dr. Shuguang Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Before joining Tsinghua, he was a Postdoc Fellow and Research Associate at Harvard, MIT, and Cornell. His current research interests include origami robotics, collective robotics, and soft robotics. His research articles have appeared in leading academic journals including Nature, PNAS, and Science Robotics, and have been covered by various media outlets globally, including NPR, BBC, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, Discovery News, Scientific American, Forbes, Associated Press, MIT Technology Review, and National Geographic Magazine.

2022.06-Present, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China

2018.05-2022.03, Research Associate, Wyss Institute & School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University

2015.11-2018.04, Postdoc, Wyss Institute & School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University

2014.09-2019.04, Postdoc, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2014.03-2014.09, Postdoc, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University

Instructor, "Manufacturing Technology I", Tsinghua University.

 Co-instructor, “Exploration of Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing (1)”, Tsinghua University.

Journal papers:

   [1]  S.Li, R.Batra, D.Brown, H.Chang, N.Ranganathan, C.Hoberman, D.Rus, and H.Lipson, “Particle robotics based on statistical mechanics of loosely-coupled components”, Nature, 567 (7748), 361, 2019, (Cover article).

   [2]  S.Li, D.Vogt, D.Rus, and R.J.Wood, “Fluid-driven origami-inspired artificial muscles”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 201713450, 2017.

   [3]  S.Li, S.Awale, K.Bacher, T.Buchner, C.Della Santina, R.J. Wood and D Rus, “Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System”, Soft Robotics, Dec, 2021, (Cover article).

   [4]  S.Li and D.Rus, “Jellocube: A continuously jumping robot with soft body”, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Feb. 2019.

   [5]  S.Li, D.Vogt, N.W.Bartlett, D.Rus, and R.J.Wood, “Tension piston: amplifying piston force using fluid-induced tension in flexible materials”, Advanced Functional Materials, May, 2019.

   [6]  R.Truby and S.Li, “Integrating chemical fuels and artificial muscles for untethered microrobots”, Science Robotics, 5(45):eabd7338, 2020, (Invited review article).

   [7]  S.Miyashita, S.Guitron, S.Li, and D.Rus, “Robotic metamorphosis by origami exoskeletons”, Science Robotics, 2(10):eaao4369, 2017, (Contributed the idea and designed the research).

   [8]  S.Li, J.Yuan, Y.Shi, and J.C.Zagal , “Growing scale-free networks with tunable distributions of triad motifs”, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 428, 103-110, 2015.

   [9]  F.Nigl, S.Li, J.Blum, and H.Lipson, “Autonomous Truss Reconfiguration and Manipulation”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, September, 2013, (Corresponding author).

[10]  S.Li, J.Yuan, and H.Lipson, “Ambient Wind Energy Harvesting using Cross-Flow Fluttering”, Journal of Applied Physics, 109(2), 2011.

[11]  A. Zhang, R. Truby, L. Chin, S.Li, and D.Rus, “Vision-based sensing for electrically-driven soft actuators”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7 (4), 11509-11516, 2022.

[12]  W.Yan, S.Li, M.Deguchi, Z.Zheng, D.Rus, and A.Mehta, “Origami-based integration of robots that sense, decide, and respond”, Nature Communications, 14(1), p.1553, 2023.

Conference papers:

[13]  P.Yang and S.Li, “Design and Fabrication of String-driven Origami Robots”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2024, Yokohama, Japan, May 2024.

[14]  T.Buchner, S.Yan, S.Li, J.Flanz, F.Hueso-González, E.Kielty, T.Bortfeld, D.Rus, “A soft robotic device for patient immobilization in sitting and reclined positions for a compact proton therapy system”, 8th IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2020, New York City, USA, Nov. 2020.

[15]  J.Hughes, S.Li, D.Rus, “Sensorization of a Continuum Body Gripper for High Force and Delicate Object Grasping”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2020, Paris, France, May 2020.

[16]  S.Li, J.Stampfli, H.Xu, E.Malkin, E.Diaz, D.Rus, and R.J.Wood, “A Vacuum-driven Origami Magic-ball Soft Gripper”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2019, Montreal, Canada, May 2019.

[17]  S.Guitron, A.Guha, S.Li, and D.Rus, “Autonomous locomotion of a miniature, untethered origami robot using hall effect sensor-based magnetic localization” In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2017, Singapore, May 2017.

[18]  R.MacCurdy, J.Lipton, S.Li, and D.Rus, “Printable programmable viscoelastic materials for robots” In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots & Systems, IROS2016, Daejeon, Korea, Oct.2016.

[19]  S.Miyashita, S.Guitron, K.Yoshida, S.Li, D.Damian, and D.Rus, “Ingestible, Controllable, and Degradable Origami Robot for Patching Stomach Wounds” In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA2016, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016.

[20]  S.Li, R.Katzschmann, and D.Rus, “A Soft Cube Capable of Controllable Continuous Jumping” In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots & Systems , IROS2015, Homburg, Germany, October 2015.

Patents:

[1]   H.Lipson and S.Li, Fluid Current Energy Capture Apparatus and Method, US Patent 8884496 (Granted, 2014);

[2]   S.Li, R.J.Wood, D.Rus, D.Vogt, and N.W.Bartlett, Programmable Multi-Scale Fluidic Artificial Muscles and Pistons, US Patent 11628560 (Granted, 2023).