On June 8, 2017, the UC Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities Lab was visited by the Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk of the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate. Dr. Alice Agogino gave a summary of our research, followed by Space Technology Research Fellow graduate students Drew Sabelhaus and Mallory Daly. Demos of all of our tensegrity robot prototypes were successful.

The BEST Lab was participated in more demos this summer as listed below (also photos):

Presentation to Associate Administrator Steve Jurczyk, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate, June 8, 2017, BEST Lab, UC Berkeley.

Presentation and demo for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Robotics Academy, July 21, 3:30-4:15 pm, BEST Lab, UC Berkeley.

Tensegrity Sunday Funday and Lawrence Hall of Science, Deniz Dogruer, July 23, 2017.

“Trajectory Tracking Control of a Flexible Spine Robot, With and Without a Reference Input“, Poster and Lightning Talk, (with Andrew Sabelhaus), Conference on Adaptive Systems and Hardware, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, July 26, 2017.

“Tensegrity Robot Locomotion Simulations and Experiments“, Poster and Lightning Talk, (with Andrew Sabelhaus), Conference on Adaptive Systems and Hardware, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, July 26, 2017.

“Hopping and Rolling Tensegrity Robots for Space Exploration”, (with Lee-Huang Chen, Ed Zhu, Mallory Daly, Alan Zhang, Brian Cera, Adrian Agogino), Conference on Adaptive Systems and Hardware, JPL/ California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, July 26, 2017.

Presentation and demo for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Robotics Academy, July 21, 3:30-4:15 pm, BEST Lab, UC Berkeley.

Presentation and Demo for the Living Machines Conference, July 28, 2017, BEST Lab, UC Berkeley.