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Carmel Majidi is focused on discovering materials, hardware architectures, and fabrication methods that enable robots and machines to behave like soft biological organisms while ensuring safe contact with humans. His research aims to replace the bulky and rigid hardware present in existing robots with soft, lightweight, and deformable technologies that match the functionality of natural biological tissues. Currently, his group concentrates on filled-elastomer composites and soft microfluidic systems that exhibit unique combinations of mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties, functioning as 'artificial' skin, nervous tissue, and muscle for soft robotics and wearables. He has a particular interest in rapid prototyping approaches for robotics implementation, enabling robust mechanical and electrical interfacing of soft-matter systems with conventional microelectronics hardware.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.