JMD Webinar: Announcement of the 14th Thematic Session Frontiers in Mechanism Design: AI-Designed Linkages, 4D-Printed Motion, and Deployable Grippers

[anurag.purwar]

On behalf of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design editorial team, I am pleased to invite you to attend this upcoming webinar organized by Haijun Su, Leah Chong, and myself.

Register at the link below:
https://lnkd.in/eVd-Mfnv

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JMD Webinar: Announcement of the 14th Thematic Session
Frontiers in Mechanism Design: AI-Designed Linkages, 4D-Printed Motion, and Deployable Grippers
ASME Journal of Mechanical Design

The JMD Webinar is a series of webinars organized quarterly by the Editorial Board of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) serving the engineering design research community. Our intention is to share the latest research published in the journal, and by doing so, to keep our community connected.

Description: Discover how researchers are redefining what machines can do. This webinar brings together three pioneering papers that push the limits of mechanism design: an AI-powered system that automatically generates high-order linkages for complex motion paths, a 4D-printed self-tying knot that encodes motion directly into material architecture, and new deployable polyhedral grippers engineered for gentle, noncontact capture in demanding environments. Whether you work in robotics, design automation, or advanced manufacturing, these talks reveal emerging technologies that will transform how we design and build adaptive, intelligent mechanical systems.

This JMD webinar will include Five speakers.

For more information and to register, please visit the JMD Webinar site.
For any questions, please email jmdwe...@gmail.com.

JMD Webinar Fourteenth Thematic Session
Theme: Frontiers in Mechanism Design: AI-Designed Linkages, 4D-Printed Motion, and Deployable Grippers

Date and Time: January 8, 2026 10:00 – 11:30 (US Eastern Standard Time)

AE talks: Yan Chen, Ketao Zhang

The panel discussion title: Open Source in the Age of AI: Accelerating the Research Cycle in Robotics and Mechanism Design

Speaker: Mitchell B. Fogelson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Authors: Mitchell B. Fogelson, Conrad Tucker, Jonathan Cagan
GCP-HOLO: Generating High-Order Linkage Graphs for Path Synthesis
ASME. J. Mech. Des. MD-22-1425 https://lnkd.in/eq9H4hr5

Speakers: Yan Chen, Tianjin University and China; Ruijie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Authors: Ruijie Tang, Qizhi Meng, Fugui Xie, Xin-Jun Liu, Jinsong Wang
Structural Designs of Novel Deployable Polyhedral Grippers for Noncontact Capturing Missions
ASME. J. Mech. Des: MD-23-1336 https://lnkd.in/e7KJ5fZa

Speaker:  Kai A. James
Authors: Anurag Bhattacharyya, Jinyoung Kim, Lee R. Alacoque, Kai A. James
Design Synthesis of a 4D-Printed Self-Tying Knot With Programmable Morphology
J. Mech. Des. June 2024, 146(6): 063303. doi: https://lnkd.in/eq-McY-T

Thank you.

Webinar Organizing Team
Haijun Su (Ohio State University)
Leah Chong (The University of Texas at Austin)
Anurag Purwar (State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook)

Register at the link below:
https://lnkd.in/eVd-Mfnv

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Anurag Purwar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Director, Computer-Aided Design and Innovation Lab

Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design

NSF I-Corps Principal Investigator at Stony Brook University

State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook

Stony Brook, NY 11794-2300 USA
Phone: (631) 632-8542, Fax: (631) 632-8544