Ziyang Zhou’s Robots That Move, Compute, and Adapt

Why it surfaced

Ziyang Zhou’s research asks whether geometry, instability, and smart materials can give robots useful behavior before conventional control is added. The projects range from electronics-free locomotion and space manipulators to physical reservoir computers and entangling origami grippers—a precise, compelling vision of robots that outsource part of their intelligence to their own bodies.

A mechanical engineering researcher’s portfolio covering soft robotics, origami-inspired mechanisms, deployable structures, and embodied physical computing.