Selected Coverage

2025 Scienmag. Revolutionary Cooling Pump Achieves 16-Degree Temperature Reduction, Most Effective
Near Heat Source.
2025 TechXplore. Next-generation wearables: Compact cooling pump drops temperatures by 16 °F.
2025 X-MOL (Chinese). 铁电聚合物，电卡制冷“动起来”。
2024 Tech Briefs. A Shape-Shifting Metamaterial Inspired by Push Puppets (with interview). Highlighted as
the top story for over two months.
2024 Hackster. A New String Theory of Metamaterials.
2024 Fabcross (Japanese). 脱力人形を応用した、調節可能なメタマテリアルの開発.
2024 Mirage News. Engineers Create Tunable, Shape-Shifting Metamaterial.
2024 Science Daily. Engineers make tunable, shape-changing metamaterial inspired by vintage toys.
2024 Interesting Engineering. New 35x stiffer push-puppet-inspired material for self-deployable space robots.
2024 UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering. UCLA Samueli Announces 2024 Edward K. Rice Outstanding Student Awards.
2023 National Science Foundation News. Robot Origami: Robots that Fold & Bend. [short clip]
2023 UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Origami robots maneuver extreme environments and detect
obstacles without embedded semiconductor-based chips.
2023 Daily Bruin. Origami MechanoBots introduce new flexibility in robotics research.
2023 EurekAlert, AAAS. Origami-inspired robots can sense, analyze and act in challenging environments.
2023 TechCrunch. The robots are already here.
2023 RT. (Spanish) Estos robots inspirados en origamis pueden detectar, analizar y actuar con precisión en entornos desafiantes.
2023 N+1. (Russian) Оригами-роботы получили электромеханическую систему управления из гибких элементов.
2023 Popular Science. Foldable robots with intricate transistors can squeeze into extreme situations.
2023 Electronics For You. Origami-Inspired Robots Can Help Explore Space!
2023 Hackster. The Unfolding of a New Era in Robotics.
2023 AZo Robotics. Chip-Free Origami-Inspired Robots for Use in Space and Surgery.
2022 EurekAlert, AAAS. Wearable sensor could guide precision drug dosing.
2022 UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. UCLA Samueli Announces Class of 2022 Awardees and Commencement Student Presenters.
2022 UCLA Samueli Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. UCLA Engineering Ph.D. student Wenzhong Yan Wins CESASC General Scholarship.
2022 UCLA Samueli Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Wenzhong Yan receives Harry M. Showman prize for effectively communicating research.
2022 The Medical News. Wearable technology could improve doctors’ ability to administer precise medication doses.
2022 UCLA Samueli Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Student won Best Presentation Award at 2022 the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Smart Materials Workshop.
2022 New Atlas. Pokey patch painlessly monitors drug levels in patients’ bloodstreams.
2022 UCLA Samueli Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Team plans to improve society by lowering barriers to access robot creation.
2018. UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Printable controller - the Mechanical Logic.