Programmable Structures Lab

Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering

Materials, Structures, Functionality

Our research in the Programmable Structures Lab focuses on the fundamental interaction between geometry, hierarchy and nonlinearity to design structural systems with intrinsic properties enabling adaptation, autonomy and environmental responsiveness.

Research Areas

Morphing
Structures
Mechanics of Re-configurable Structures
Intelligent Matter & Soft Robotics
Vibrations & Nonlinear Metamaterials

Spotlight

Recent Lab News

July 30, 2025



Trailblazers in Engineering

Clark Addis and Juan Osorio were selected as Trailblazers in Engineering at the Purdue Future Faculty workshop.

 

July 23, 2025



Presentation, Posters and Demonstration at the 2025 IEEE Robosoft Conference

We would like to congratulate Juan C. Osorio for sucessfully defending his PhD thesis “Mechanical Intelligence From Structural Multistability"

 

News Archive

Media

November 17, 2021

March 16, 2021

December 01, 2020

July 13, 2020

April 02, 2018

January 01, 2018

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Sponsors

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

 

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
National Institute of Health
National Science Foundation
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Army Research Laboratory
Anheuser Busch InBev
Ford Motor Company
Wabash National
General Motors R&D
AFRL Research Hub—Midwest