YuFeng Chen
NBX Career Development Professor; Associate Professor
Builds insect-scale robots for aerial, aquatic, and terrestrial locomotion, driven by high-bandwidth soft actuators.
YuFeng Chen's lab at MIT works on legged locomotion & humanoids and autonomous vehicles & drones. 15 papers since 2023, 4 at top venues, mostly ICRA and Science Robotics. 3 PhD students. 8 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 27%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 1
- 1 papers2024 · T1 0
- 7 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, Science Robotics
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- aerial11 papers
- soft6 papers
- Legged locomotion & humanoids1 paper
- Autonomous vehicles & drones1 paper
- actuators1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- IEEE Robotics and Automation LetterAchieving thrust enhancement and passive stability in a samara-inspired micro-aerial-vehicle (opens in a new tab)
- Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 12(1)Hysteresis-aware MEMS neuromorphic networks for embedded sensing and computation (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- Science Robotics (T1)Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot (opens in a new tab)
- Science AdvancesAerobatic maneuvers in insect-scale flapping-wing aerial robots via deep-learned robust tube model predictive control (opens in a new tab)
- in RoboSoftHovering flight of soft-actuated insect-scale micro aerial vehicles using deep reinforcement learning (opens in a new tab)
- Science AdvancesHybrid locomotion at the insect scale: Combined flying and jumping for enhanced efficiency and versatility (opens in a new tab)
- Advanced Intelligent SystemsSoft Aerial Robots: The Development of Adaptive, Multi‐Functional and Multi‐Terrain Aerial Robots (opens in a new tab)
20241 paper
20237 papers
- ICRA (T1)A lightweight high-voltage boost circuit for soft-actuated micro-aerial-robots (opens in a new tab)
- Communications EngineeringEnergy efficient perching and takeoff of a miniature rotorcraft (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Heading Control of a Long-Endurance Insect-Scale Aerial Robot Powered by Soft Artificial Muscles (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots (opens in a new tab)
- Advanced Intelligent SystemsModular and Scalable Fabrication of Insect-Scale Aerial Robots toward Demonstrating Swarm Flights (opens in a new tab)
- ACS nanoRecent advances in triboelectric nanogenerators: from technological progress to commercial applications (opens in a new tab)
- Best Paper Finalist in Dynamics and ControlRobust, High-Rate Trajectory Tracking on Insect-Scale Soft-Actuated Aerial Robots with Deep-Learned Tube MPC (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went8 listed, 25% to industry
Industry 1Academia 3
Also to
- Kyung Hee University
- Stanford University
- University of Michigan
Apply to MITFall 2027
MIT EECS Computer Science PhD
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