Our lab (Sayu Lab for Biomechanics and Locomotion) at the University of Utah is hiring a PhD Student to start Fall 2026! I can’t speak highly enough of Kota as a mentor, and on top of that we’re doing super neat science! Apply before Dec 1st. Job info below:
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Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.05033
Documentation: gatech-epic-power.github.io/epically-pow...
GitHub: github.com/gatech-epic-...
Please feel free to reach out, drop a note in our GitHub Discussions page, etc. We're really looking forward to getting feedback, iterating on this, and seeing how people use it - both in wearable and broader areas of robotics!
Almost all (if not all) devices in our groups at Georgia Tech are running on EP, which has helped streamline development and keep things consistent across teams. It cleans up mid- and high-level controller implementation, while still giving users behind-the-scenes access if they want/need it.
Why use it?
- Seamlessly interface with a range of actuators, sensors, and single-board computers
- Quickly implement controllers and visualize data in real time
- Customize and scale robotic systems without rebuilding core software
- Swap out components without rewriting entire controllers
We've created this so the code interfaces with all devices in a similar stylistic way, regardless of the varied communication protocols we're handling in the background.
We've covered actuators from three of the big manufacturers, RasPis and Jetsons, various IMU types, and different power options.
Highlights:
- Works with many actuators, single-board computers, and sensors without locking users into pre-defined hardware setups
- Easy-to-use Python interface
- Assembly tutorials and example controller code
- A part selection guide to help find the right components for specific applications
After significant development by our team - and testing from our lab, as well as colleagues at Northeastern, Carnegie Mellon, and Washington - it’s now a robust, modular, open-source platform that makes it faster and easier to go from idea to working robotic system.
This started as an in-lab effort to streamline the essential “plumbing” of wearable robots - low-level communication parsing, clocking, data acquisition, visualization, etc. - tasks that were taking us weeks or months to implement and troubleshoot, and often being redone by new folks in the lab.
Very excited about our new pre-print on an open-source package that I developed with some of my GT labmates!
Epically Powerful (EP) is a modular mechatronics infrastructure and open-source software package for building and operating wearable and general robotic systems.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05033
Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS!
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Excited to be in DC for my first Neural Interfaces meeting! Really looking forward to the program this week.
The NIH has not issued a single new call for proposals since the end of January.
Thrilled to receive the Harvard Mind Brain Behavior Postdoc Fellowship! This will support my work surgically reconstructing peripheral neuromuscular physiology to bridge human and robotic control.
Excited to continue this work with my advisor Dr. Shriya Srinivasan and co-mentor Dr. Matthew Carty.
A great new study from my Georgia Tech labmate, Dr. Pawel Golyski, on the influence of a passive elastic hip exo on stability and mechanical energetics. Check it out:
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An absolutely stellar labmate, scientist, engineer, and friend! Keep killing it, Dr. Davenport!
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This hasn’t been reported as much in the media, but this attack on international scholars at Harvard seems to also affect postdocs: ~40% (3/4 of international postdocs) are on J visas (based on FAS postdoc association data)
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow.
It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America.
All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
The main benefit of these is that we can study ground stiffness perturbations on a fully instrumented treadmill, as well as conduct experiments overground. I'm hoping to share results from a study investigating adaptation to a stiffness perturbation applied by these shoes very soon!
Go Jo!!! Thrilled to be working with Jo and the rest of the crew at Harvard Robotics to plan an NBD event this year. Huge thanks to the Disability Biomechanics Outreach program for the support! Looking forward to a fun event next month.
It's what you've all been waiting and hoping for; the deets on Dynamic Walking 2025! 🚶🎉
The when: July 14th - 17th
The Where: Aachen (Germany, but bordering the Netherlands)
The submission process: dynamicwalking2025.org
The deadline: April 25th
🚶♀️Hope to see you soon <3 🚶
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Fantastic to hear Dr. Edward Chang from Berkeley discuss their work in restoring speech with neuroprostheses using high-density speech/motor cortical decoding!
Great start to the week visiting UMass Amherst yesterday to give a talk at the Kinesiology Graduate Seminar! Big thanks to @sarahroelker.bsky.social for hosting and to everyone who took the time to chat—so fun learning about the exciting biomechanics and wearable robotics projects happening there!
Postdoc opportunity to do digital twin research for human and humanoid agile locomotion with myself, Wouter Hoogkamer @umill.bsky.social and Donghyun Kim! See forms.gle/FRFtLNiY7j3z... for more info and to apply by 3/19.
