Celina Wu

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Celina Wu is a rising leader in soft robotics, with a focus on origami-inspired mechanisms and proprioceptive control. Her work bridges structural design and intelligent actuation, most notably demonstrated in her highly cited 2024 paper, “Controlling the fold: proprioceptive feedback in a soft origami robot.” In this study, Wu introduced a novel approach to closed-loop control in soft, pneumatically actuated origami robots, using a 3D-printed Kresling-inspired unit with six sidewall folds. By integrating proprioceptive feedback, she enabled precise, self-aware motion in a one-degree-of-freedom system and extended this to a two-degree-of-freedom assembly, marking a significant step toward autonomous, adaptive soft robots. With 12 citations in under a year, her work is already shaping discussions in embodied intelligence and compliant mechanisms. Wu’s contributions are particularly notable for their practical implications in deployable structures and medical devices, where soft, controllable origami systems offer unprecedented adaptability. Her research exemplifies how foldable architectures and feedback control can converge to create robots that sense and respond to their own shape—a key challenge in the field.