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Carmel Majidi's career mission is to discover materials, hardware architectures, and fabrication methods that allow robots and machines to behave like soft biological organisms for safe contact with humans. His aim is to replace bulky rigid hardware in existing robots with soft, lightweight, deformable technologies that match the functionality of natural biological tissue. Currently, his research group focuses 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 in soft robotics and wearables. Majidi is particularly interested in approaches that enable practical and rapid prototyping of robotics from an implementation perspective, including efforts to enable robust mechanical and electrical interfacing between soft-matter systems and conventional microelectronics hardware. He has received media attention for his work on improving public health and creating efficient, sustainable energy sources.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.