21 April 2021

Jesse successfully defended his Robotics MS thesis entitled Making Concentric Tube Robots More Accessible: A New Open-Source Design Made of 3D-Printed and Other Easy-to-Source Materials on April 21. He will join the MedLab at Vanderbilt University in the Fall of 2021 to continue his studies as a Ph.D. student.

Nick successfully passed his Robotics MS defense on April 19 with a thesis entitled A New Mechanics Model for Continuum Notched-Tube Wrists that Accounts for Tendon Friction and Material Nonlinearities, and he will continue his graduate studies at WPI.

Congratulations to Jesse and Nick!