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Sogang University · Mechanical Engineering

Building the hardware of
physical intelligence

The Robotics & Intelligent Mechanisms Lab develops core robotic hardware and physical intelligence for dexterous interaction with the real world — robot hands, grippers, compact high-performance actuators, variable transmissions, and proprioceptive, force-aware manipulation.

Robot Hands Variable Transmission Physical AI Twisted String Actuation Magnetic Gear Force Sensing In-Hand Manipulation Quasi-Direct Drive Blind Grasping Surgical Robotics Exoskeletons Harness Assembly Automation Robot Hands Variable Transmission Physical AI Twisted String Actuation Magnetic Gear Force Sensing In-Hand Manipulation Quasi-Direct Drive Blind Grasping Surgical Robotics Exoskeletons Harness Assembly Automation

In Motion

Selected experiment videos

Ultra-Low-Impedance Robotic Gripper for High-Bandwidth, Transparent Physical Interaction

Gripper

Vision-Free Multifingered Blind Grasping Using Uniaxial Fingertip Force Sensing

Physical AI

Research Playlist · 24 videos

Patient-specific, Voice-controlled, Robotic FLEXotendon Glove-IISystem for Spinal Cord Injury

Modeling and Control of a 2-DoF Meso-scale Continuum Robotic Tool for Pediatric Neurosurgery

Automated Terminal-to-Housing Assembly System for Flat Ribbon Cable Harness

Ultra-Low-Impedance, High-Control Bandwidth, and High-Sensitive Robotic Finger Demo 1

A Robotic Hand with an Accurate Carpometacarpal Joint and Nitinol-Reinforced Skeletal Structure

Twisted String Actuation Module for Bi-directional Compact Robotic Finger

서강대학교 이에드가 “Robust Hand Manipulation Policy Based on RL-DOB”

Progress update on blind grasping research

Blind Grasping 2nd Trial

Flex RIM hand - 1st prototyping

A Robotic Finger with a 4-bar Linkage-based Compact and Continuously Variable Active Transmission

Coaxial Magnetic Gear-based Tool-Changing System

Hand Exo with Suction Cup

Continuously Variable Transmission and Stiffness Actuator based on Actively Variable FourBar Linkage

Magnetic Gear-based Actuator: A Framework of Design, Optimization, and DOB-based Torque Control

Development of High-Performance Humanoid Prosthetic Hand System

MSC Prosthetic hand prototype EMG-based grasping intention estimation experiment

Prosthetic Robot Hand controlled by EMG –Twisted String Actuation, Box and Block Test(BBT)

Mechanical Variable Magnetic Gear Transmission

Robot Gripper and Robot hand using 2-Speed Twisted String Actuation (TSA)

Active Dual-mode Twisting Actuation Mechanism

Robot hand with 2-speed transmission mechanism based on twisted string actuation

AIM 2016 720p

Designing Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with Active Dual-Mode Twisted String Actuation Mechanism