Saikot, M. H., Spiegel, S., Kariyawasam, S. A., Stefka, A., Chrisler, J., & Zhao, J. (2026). "Tensegrity Continuum Robots Enable Task-Adaptive Morphologies for Cooperative Behaviors." Nature Machine Intelligence, Accepted.
Sun, J., Lerner, E., Tighe, B., Middlemist, C., & Zhao, J. (2023). "Embedded shape morphing for morphologically adaptive robots." Nature Communications, 14(1), 6023.
Spiegel, S., Sun, J., & Zhao, J. (2023). "A Shape-Changing Wheeling and Jumping Robot Using Tensegrity Wheels and Bistable Mechanism." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 28(4), 2073-2082.
Hsiao, H. T., Sun, J., Zhang, H., & Zhao, J. (2022). "A Mechanically Intelligent and Passive Gripper for Aerial Perching and Grasping." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(6), 5243-5253.
Sun, J., & Zhao, J. (2022). "Physics-Based Modeling of Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators Using Cosserat Rod Theory." IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 38(2), 779-796.
Sun, J., Tighe, B., Liu, Y., & Zhao, J. (2021). "Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators with Free Strokes Enable Soft Robots with Programmable Motions." Soft Robotics, 8(2).
Tang, Y., Chi, Y., Sun, J., Huang, T. H., Maghsoudi, O. H., Spence, A., Zhao, J., Su, H., & Yin, J. (2020). "Leveraging elastic instabilities for amplified performance: Spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots." Science Advances, 6(19), eaaz6912.
Sun, J., & Zhao, J. (2019). "An Adaptive Walking Robot With Reconfigurable Mechanisms Using Shape Morphing Joints." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(2), 724-731.
Zhao, J., Zhao, T., Xi, N., Mutka, M. W., & Xiao, L. (2015). "MSU Tailbot: Controlling Aerial Maneuver of a Miniature-Tailed Jumping Robot." IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 20(6), 2903-2914.
Zhao, J., Xu, J., Gao, B., Xi, N., Cintron, F., Mutka, M., & Xiao, L. (2013). "MSU jumper: A single-motor-actuated miniature steerable jumping robot." IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 29(3), 602-614.
Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK
Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley, CA, USA
Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, CA, USA