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Zechen Xiong | ZeRobot

Postdoctoral Researcher, Soft Robotics & Bistable Mechanisms

Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666

Ph.D., Columbia University, Class of 2024

CarbonFish: A New Vortex Racer Underwater

CarbonFish

CarbonFish is now undulating up to 10Hz!

Biomimetic Soft Robotic Fish

Servo-driven bi-stable hair-clip mechanism inspired fish robot, as fast as its attributive phrase is long!

Soft Robotic Fish Soft Robotic Fish

To Reveal the Unknown of Hydrobotics

Snapping undulation enable the fish robot to gain three times more thrust than sinusoidal swimming pattern.

Soft Robotic Fish Soft Robotic Fish
Soft Robotic Fish Soft Robotic Fish

Courtesy of Zihan Guo

Pneumatic Fish in an Aquarium Tank

Soft Robotic Fish

This fish robot exhibits a bistable swimming gait that remains largely unexplored.

Bistable Finger-Like Compliant Gripper

This gripper is manipulating limp objects.

Soft Robotic Crawler

This bionic bistable crawler gallops like a vertebrate.

Soft Robotic Fish

Carbon Fiber Lattice

To create CFRP lattices with high specific strength.

Carbon Fiber Lattice

Bioinspired Structural Batteries

To simulate and analyze the mechanical properties of structural battery.

structural battery

Courtesy of Tianwei Jin at. el.

Soft Deployable Structure

structural battery

My first English publication.
A masterpiece of gibberish...

Geo-Thermal Energy Tunnel

It is my Master degree thesis. Emm.. still recalling what it is about...

CarbonFish

Contact Me

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327 W Woods St, San Marcos, TX 78666

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