Team
Sam Kriegman
Director
Assistant Professor,
Northwestern University
Depts. of Comp Sci, Mech Eng, Chem & Bio Eng
David Matthews
Staff Scientist
Comp Sci
2022–
differentiable robots
Tyler Hummer
PhD student
Mech Eng
2022–
multicellular robots
Muhan Li
PhD student
Comp Sci
2023–
complex robots
Chen Yu
PhD student
Comp Sci
2023–
morphing robots
Luke Strgar
PhD student
Comp Sci
2023–
growing robots
Isabel Zhong
Masters student
Biomed Eng and Comp Sci
2023–
evolving robots
Lingji Kong
Masters student
Comp Sci
2023-
large language robots
Talia Ben-Naim
Undergrad intern
Comp Sci
2023–
neuromorphic robots
Daniel Shamsoddini
Undergrad intern
Comp Sci
2023–
evolving robots
Elli Beres
Undergrad intern
Comp Sci and Math
2023–
growing robots
Eliot Dunn
High school intern
Robotics
2023–
evolving robots
Elaine Liu
Masters student
Mech Eng
2023
modular robots
Douglas Blackiston
Collaborator & Advisor
Senior Scientist,
Tufts University
Dept. of Biology
Luna
Lab dog
Dept. of Zoology
2012–
Run 52
Lab Mascot
Dept. of Zoology
2019–
If you would like to join the xenobot lab, please fill out this form and then send Sam a short email note.
Kriegman (left) with Matthews (right) in the Center for Robotics and Biosystems at Northwestern University. Matthews is holding an AI-generated robot.
Kriegman in the microinjection room of Michael Levin's lab at Tufts University in the Fall of 2021, one year before joining Northwestern.
Photographer: M. Scott Brauer (copyright; all rights reserved).
Blackiston (left) and Kriegman at Tufts.
Sept 2021.
Photographer: M. Scott Brauer (copyright; all rights reserved).
Kriegman (right) dressed as a robot.
Halloween, 1994.