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Sang-Bae Kim
Director, Biomimetic Robotics Lab / Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Kim Sangbae is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and the director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory at MIT. Sangbae is working at the convergence of mechanical engineering, biology and material science. His design approaches are based on the principles of complex biological systems that understand and satisfy both biological and engineering requirements.
His achievement on bio-inspired robot development includes the world’s first directional adhesive inspired by gecko lizards and a climbing robot, Stickybot, which utilizes the directional adhesives to climb smooth surfaces. Stickybot was featured as one of the best inventions of 2006 by TIME and the papers on Stickybot won the best student paper award at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation and Transactions on Robotics.
He is one of the recipients of the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2013.
His achievement on bio-inspired robot development includes the world’s first directional adhesive inspired by gecko lizards and a climbing robot, Stickybot, which utilizes the directional adhesives to climb smooth surfaces. Stickybot was featured as one of the best inventions of 2006 by TIME and the papers on Stickybot won the best student paper award at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation and Transactions on Robotics.
He is one of the recipients of the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2013.
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