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Academic Publications
Academic Publications
Dissertation
Dissertation
J. Shum, "Electroadhesion Design for Microrobotic Locomotion on Diverse Surfaces," PhD Dissertation, Harvard University. 2025.
Advisor: Professor Robert J. Wood
Journal and Conference Papers
Journal and Conference Papers
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J. Shum, P. E. Schiebel, A. M. Hernandez, K. Jayaram, and R.J. Wood, “Compliance for Adhesion: Designing Kirigami Patterns for Local Conformation on Rough Surfaces,” Applied Physics Letters, 2025.
J. Shum, P. E. Schiebel, A. M. Hernandez, and R. J. Wood, “Electroadhesive Pad Design for Increased Adhesion Capability of Climbing Microrobots on Diverse Terrains” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2024.
A. M. Hernandez, P. E. Schiebel, J. Shum, and R. J. Wood, “Spines and Inclines: Bioinspired spines on an insect scale robot facilitate locomotion on rough and inclined terrain”. Integrative And Comparative Biology, 2024.
P. E. Schiebel, J. Shum, H. Cerbone, & R. J. Wood, “An insect-scale robot reveals the effects of different body dynamics regimes during open-loop running in feature-laden terrain". Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2022.
P-L Lechère, P. E. Schiebel, M. C. Yuen, J. Shum, and R. J. Wood, “Passive compliant foot design for improved microrobotic mobility on rough terrains” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 2022.
T. Abondance, K. Jayaram, N. T. Jafferis, J. Shum and R. J. Wood, "Piezoelectric Grippers for Mobile Micromanipulation," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4407-4414, 2020.
K. Jayaram, J. Shum, S. Castellanos, E. F. Helbling and R. J. Wood, "Scaling down an insect-size microrobot, HAMR-VI into HAMR-Jr," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 2020.
Video Media
Video Media
Compliant_Electroadhesion_Demos_01172025_10MB_1.mp4Compliant Kirigami Designs for Local Conformation
Compliant Kirigami Designs for Local Conformation
ElectroadhesionPadDesignForIncreasedAdhesionInclinedTerrainsVideoDemos_11012024_18mb.mp4Electroadhesive Pads for Microrobotic Climbing
Electroadhesive Pads for Microrobotic Climbing
Piezo_Gripper_Mobile_Micromanipulation_IROS2020.mp4Piezoelectric Grippers for Micromanipulation
Piezoelectric Grippers for Micromanipulation
HAMR_ICRA_2020_voiceover.mp4HAMR-JR (Scaling Small Robots)
HAMR-JR (Scaling Small Robots)
In the Wild
In the Wild
Student Stories: "Building Something New"
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Student Profile Feature
"Itty-Bitty Bot" in Highlights Childrens Magazine
Oct 2023 Spotlight Feature Article shares work done on HAMR-JR for young reader audiences.
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