Sponsor: MSU Foundation (Strategic Partnership Grant)
PI: Prof. Xiaobo Tan, Co-PIs: Prof. Tong Gao (Mechanical Engineering and Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering), John Kruger (Small Animal Clinical Sciences), Chunqi Qian (Radiology), Chuan Wang (Electrical & Computer Engineering).
This internal grant aims to build an interdisciplinary team at MSU that advances soft robotic systems for various applications, including addressing medical challenges, such as accessing hard-to-reach organs for medical imaging and interventions. The team consists of experts on soft robotics, computational modeling, electronic skins, MRI imaging, and animal clinical sciences.