Jamie Paik

Expertise Soft robotics Origami robots Wearable technologies Novel robotic and actuator design Prof. Jamie Paik is founder and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and a core member of Swiss NCCR robotics group. The RRL leverages expertise in multi-material fabrication and smart material actuation for novel robot designs. She received her PhD in Seoul National University on designing humanoid arm and a hand while being sponsored by Samsung Electronics. This 7-DoF humanoid arm was the lightest in the literature at that time being 3.7kg including the 8-DoF hand. During her Postdoctoral positions in the Institut des Systems Intelligents et de Robotic in Universitat Pierre Marie Curie, Paris VI, she developed laparoscopic tools named JAiMY that are internationally patented and commercialized now by Endocontrol-medical.com. At Harvard University's Microrobotics Laboratory, she started developing unconventional robots that push the physical limits of material and mechanisms. Her latest research effort is in soft robotics including self-morphing Robogami (robotic origami) that transforms its planar shape to 2D or 3D by folding in predefined patterns and sequences, just like the paper art, origami. Teaching & PhD PhD Students Alihan Bakir, Theodoros Papafotiou, Shaopeng Jiang, Ryo Kanno, Serhat Demirtas, Ziqiao Wang, Alexander Schüssler, Hugo René Bordereaux Past EPFL PhD Students Amir Firouzeh, Zhenishbek Zhakypov, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Christoph Belke, Harshal Arun Sonar, Jian-Lin Huang, Sagar Dattatray Joshi, Frédéric Giraud, Fabio Zuliani, Kevin Andrew Holdcroft, Mustafa Mete Courses Mechanical product design and development ME-410 Study and explore design principles of the different mechatronic components and systems. We will cover in-depth especially on meso-scale actuators, sensors and body construction methods. Topics in Autonomous Robotics ENG-615 Students will be introduced to modern approaches in control and design of autonomous robots through lectures and exercises.