SMILE Robotics Lab
We design Soft, Modular, Intelligent, Learning, and Embodied robotic systems — advancing adaptive, cooperative, and reconfigurable robots.
Faculty
Luyang Zhao
PI / Assistant Professor
Members
Yinhong Qin
Ph.D. Student (Fall 2025 - Present)
Arifur Rahman
(Starting Fall 2026)
Dixiang Wang
(Starting Fall 2026)
Minghao Zha
(Fall 2025 - Present)
Thesis: May 2026
Nicholas R. Burns
(May 2026 - Present)
Alex Tabaku
(May 2026 - Present)
Bryson Mathew Still
(May 2026 - Present)
Clejah Nathello Daniel
(May 2026 - Present)
Liam Leo Loughead
(May 2026 - Present)
Creative Inquiry Teams
Soft Modular Robotic Hand
Spring 2026 (Jan-Apr)- Andry Janluca Aguero
- Colton Barry
- Gina Evelyn Bertotti
- Jacob Wayne Brinson
- Caleb Z Kim
- Adalene P King
- Anish Kulkarni
- Liam Leo Loughead
- SrikarNag Nallam
- Kirsten Clement Reed
- Lucaya Robertson
- Alby Schirippa
- Alex Tabaku
- Jorge Y Valdez Reyna
LLM-Driven Robotics
Spring 2026 (Jan-Apr)- Ben Bedingfield
- Clejah Nathello Daniel
- Austin C Hill
- Caleb Z Kim
- Ethan Hayden M Mago
- Ethan Patrick Santee
- Alex Tabaku
- Amolik Sinha
Alumni (Mentored at Dartmouth Reality & Robotics Lab)
- Chun-Yi She - M.S. Student (2023 - 2025)
- Yitao Jiang - M.S. Student (2022 - 2025), Now Ph.D. Student at Dartmouth
- Yijia Wu - M.S. Student (2021 - 2022), Now Ph.D. Student at Tufts University
- Weishu Zhan - M.S. Student (2022 - 2023), Now Ph.D. Student at University of Manchester
- Josiah Putman - Undergraduate Researcher, Now at Google
- Maxine Perroni-Scharf - Undergraduate Researcher, Now Ph.D. Student at MIT
Research
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