TunaBotics CEO Shan and CTO Stabile pitched at New York Innovation Summit held in Rochester Oct. 29-30 2025. TunaBotics has been selected as one of the five winners and taken home $60k to help commercialization of the soft shell gripper technology developed by SRG. We thank FuzeHub foundation for the sponsorship! Congratulations to TunaBotics and […]

We are happy to share that SRG spinoff TunaBotics has received its first NSF SBIR Phase I award with an amount of $305,000 over 14 months. This is a milestone in SRG’s translational efforts. TunaBotics will use this funding to further develop its robotic manipulation technologies into prototypes and interact with potential customers.

We are excited to share that our new paper about soft shell grippers based on highly tunable adhesion has been published with Advanced Functional Materials. Chenxu and Yanbing are co-first authors for this paper. Chenxu has finished his Ph.D dissertation with this work published! The paper can be found here: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202504871

Way to go Farshad! Now it’s time to focus on research!

We are excited to share that an I-Corps pilot project has been awarded by NASA. This marks the first ever federal grant to our group that is not from NSF. Congratulations to Frank Marin (the entrepreneurial lead) and Dr. Shan!

We are happy to share that two mechanics papers, one with Extreme Mechanics Letters led by SRG student Chenxu Zhao, and the other with International Journal of Solids and Structures led by SRG former postdoc Guangchao Wan , have been published. These are about hollow pillar adhesion and shell adhesion. We look forward to follow-up […]

All SRG members except the undergrads attended GRC Science of Adhesion at Mount Holyoke in late July. Wanliang served as discussion leader for one evening session on switchable adhesion. Big thanks to Kevin for the invitation! Guangchao, Chenxu, Yanbing, and Farshad each presented a poster about their research. GRC Adhesion stays as our favorite conference!

Wanliang just finished a trip to the great Los Angeles area to visit Younger Optics, which is hosting Chenxu for an NSF-funded internship. Former SRG members Amir and Valerie have been working in the area for a couple of years. All enjoyed the reunion at Huntington Beach very much after four years not seeing each […]

SRG congratulate Zach and Siavash for their achievements over the years at SU. Zach is heading for Georgia Tech for Ph.D. study and Siavash is enjoying his work at Frontgrade! We wish them both good luck at their new posts!

It is homecoming in essence. Wanliang has been trained to be a solid mechanician at Princeton. It is only fitting and extremely fulfilling for Wanliang to receive the NSF Career Award from the “notoriously” competitive Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program! Many thanks to the support from mentors and colleagues over the years!