Completed Research Projects

Designing an Untethered Soft Robot

Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots

Computational Design Synthesis of Passive Dynamic Brachiating Robots

Automated Synthesis of Passive Dynamic Brachiating Robots

Reprinting Intelligence: 3D Printed Brain Designed for the 2018 World Economic Forum ETH Exhibition

Design of 4D Printed, Deployable and Active Systems

Deployable structures through 3D printing and bistability

Computational Design Synthesis of Origami-Adapted Rigid-Foldable Structures

A Computational Design Synthesis for Origami-Adapted Rigid-Foldable Structures

Computational Design Synthesis of Soft Robots

Computation Design Synthesis of Soft Robots

Process and Material Characterization in Additive Manufacturing

Process Characterization in Additive Manufacturing

Design Automation Task Definition

Designing the Key of the Future

Computational Design and Optimization of Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures

Computational Design of 3D Printed, Personalized Medical Devices

Application of 3D Printing in Personalized Medical Devices

Design of 4D Printed Large, Shape Transforming Auxetic Structures

Additional Information

"Solar-powered thermo-pneumatic actuators for passively controlled adaptive shading"

Our research is published external page online in Smart Materials and Structures.

"Computational design of 4D printed shape morphing lattices undergoing large deformation"

Our research is published external page online in Smart Materials and Structures.

Summer School "Computational Design for Additive Manufacturing"

has successfully finished. Read more on our website.

Looking for a focus project for 2024/25?

external page Register now and join our info event on May 30th at 16.15 at CLA E4 to learn more about the Mechatronic Mouse Enclosures for Machine Vision Based Welfare Monitoring (ARGOS) project. Please see the Download slides (PDF, 604 KB).

CDfAM Summer School

is taking place on July 1st to July 5th, 2024 at ETH Zurich. For more information and application please visit the website of external page IDEA League.

"Computational Design of 2D Lattice Structures Based on Crystallographic Symmetries"

Our research is published external page online in the Journal of Mechanical Design.

EDAC at Kangaroo goes Science

Please see the external page video.

Collaboration with incon.ai

Please read the external page Linkedin post.

Welcome to

Nicolas Hochuli who joins our group as doctoral student!

"Shape reconfiguring bistable structures using heat activated fibers"

Our research is published external page online in Engineering Structures.

New Announcement for Doctoral Position is online

Please see the announcement.

Congratulations to Yu Zhang on being selected as Spotlight Article author

The external page promoting article is published on the Linkedin page of the journal Developments in the Built Environment.

"A template design and automated parametric model for sustainable corbel dwellings with interlocking blocks"

Our new research is published external page online in Developments in the Built Environment.

"Computational design and fabrication of active 3D-printed multi-state structures for shape morphing"

Our new research is published external page online in Smart Materials and Structures.

"3D-printing textiles: multi-stage mechanical characterization of additively manufactured biaxial weaves"

Our new research is published external page online in Materials & Design

"EDAC participates in the annual “Schülerinnentag"

Please read the article published on ETH MAVT News.

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