Sangbae Kim

Assistant Professor

Room 3-455D
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-452-2711
Fax: 617-258-9346
Email: sangbae@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/sangbae/www

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2009.5 ~)

Assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering dept.

Harvard University MA, USA

Post-doctorate fellow at Micro-robotics lab

Stanford University CA, USA

Doctorate, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: Bio-inspired robot design with compliant underactuated system Advisor: Mark R. Cutkosky, Ph.D

Stanford University CA, USA

Master of science, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Yonsei University

Bachelor of science, Mechanical Engineering Seoul, Korea

Stickybot/ directional adhesion

Initiation and design of the world’s first glass wall climbing legged robot and first directional adhesive tape inspired from the gecko lizard (sole inventor)

2008 Best paper award on Transactions on Roboticsin mmemorial of King-sun Fu

Best Student Paper Award and Best Conference paper finalist

IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation 2007

Selected among TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2006

Featured on The Discovery channel: Weird Science

Featured on History channel: Modern Marvels- “Sticky Stuff”

Featured on PBS Wired science: Geek Beat

Featured on ABC “Good morning America”

Featured in National Geographic- “Design by Nature”

Featured in Forbes magazine- “7 Amazing robots that will change your life”

Featured in more than 50 other media coverage:

Presented at Google Zeitgeist Science Fair

Presented at DARPATech

Presented at American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual meeting 2007

Two pending patents

Spinybot

World’s first legged wall climbing robot using micro-spine array.

Best video Award

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2006

Featured on ABC news

Featured on ARTE documentary

One pending patent

iSprawl

Cockroach-inspired robot capable of running 15 body-lengths/s using flexible power transmission system

Featured on Science central

Featured on ARTE documentary

Featured on The DiscoveryChannel: Daily Planet

One pending patent

Optical 3D scanner

Developed first prototype - shifting pattern projection system synchronized with camera trigger at Solutionicx.com.