News

2022

• January 14 - I accepted a new job as a Hardware Dev Engineer at Amazon Robotics AI in Seattle! Stoked for the seafood, the scenery, the cherries, and the good friends.

2021

• December 17 - I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis titled “Whole-Hand Robotic Manipulation with Rolling, Sliding, and Caging” to my committee of Aaron Dollar, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, and Madhu Venkadesan!
• December 17 - Our paper on self identification was selected as one of five 2021 Editors’ Top Picks from Science Robotics!
• May 19 - Hang, Andy and I published a new paper on self identification of intrinsic motion models in Science Robotics!
• May 12 - My paper was published on the cover of the May 2021 Grasping and Manipulation Special Issue of Science Robotics!
• May 1 - ReCore won the Rothberg Catalyzer Prize for $15,000 at Startup Yale!
• January 21 - ReCore won the CT Innovations BioPipeline grant for $30,000!

2020

• November 4 - ReCore interviewed for Y Combinator! We were not selected as a finalist, but it was a great learning experience.

• May 4 - ReCore is officially founded by me, Marley Windham-Herman, and David Dupee!

2018

• December 17 - I became a cyborg with my newly minted Medtronic ICD! (Medtronic, if you’re reading this, please sponsor me with free upgrades for life)

Press

• Yale University’s ultra-flexible manipulator imitates the mechanism of human “palm and fingers”, everything can be grasped and can “plate walnuts”
  Published by RoboSpeak at 36kr, 6/10/21
• Startup Stories: ReCore Medical Creates a Cheaper Biopsy
  Published by Yale School of Management, 6/8/21
• A highly dexterous robot hand with a caging mechanism
  Published by Tech Xplore, 5/13/21
• A Simpler, but Dexterous Robot Hand
  Published by Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, 5/12/21
• Seven new startups win funding in annual pitch competition
  Published by Yale Daily News, 5/5/21
• Kickstarting Healthcare Innovation with the Rothberg Catalyzer Prototype Fund
  Published by Yale Tsai CITY, 4/13/20
• Small World, Isn’t It?
  Published by the Yale GSAS Dean’s Office, 2/10/17
• Innocents Society abandons tackling ritual
  Published in the Daily Nebraskan, 3/1/16
• Hazing investigation of Innocents Society closed, police say
  Published in the Daily Nebraskan, 4/15/15
• The guilt of an Innocent: Is UNL’s oldest honor society getting away with hazing?
  Published in the Daily Nebraskan, 3/9/15
• UNMC, UNL make history by testing mini-robots in ‘space’
  Published by the UNMC Newsroom, 5/5/14
• Power a Village fundraises to provide electricity in Nepali villages
  Published in the Daily Nebraskan, 3/13/14
• Students to bring light to Nepali village
  Published in the Journal Star, 5/19/13
• Innocents, Mortar Board select new members
  Published in the Omaha World Herald, 3/30/13
• From robotics to ear wiggling, Walter Bircher can do it all
  Published in the Daily Nebraskan, 11/16/12
• UNL student track-spike invention leads to potential business
  Published in UNL Announce, 9/14/12
• UNL loses hub for late-night grub
  Published in the Journal Star, 12/14/11
• Engineering student to study in Turkey on Critical Language Scholarship
  Published by the UNL School of Engineering, 4/13/11

Last modified on January 17th, 2022