Northwestern Engineering’s Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering have welcomed Ryan Truby to the faculty as an assistant professor. Prior to joining the McCormick ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ryan Truby has received an Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP) award. An assistant professor of materials science and engineering and of ...

Ryan Truby, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern Engineering, received a 2022 Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ian McCue and Ryan Truby have both received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA). McCue is the Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Erica Hartmann, Emma Alexander, and Ryan Truby have been selected to participate in the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2024 Symposium, scheduled for September ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting — just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an ...

To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. To ...

Assistant professor Ryan Truby discusses his work in Northwestern Engineering's Robotic Matter Lab and what he admires about the school's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program. Ryan Truby is ...

Future robots could soon have a lot more muscle power. Northwestern University engineers have developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new ...