Congratulations to C Design Lab Alums Dr. Devarajan and Sinha on their newly accepted positions.

A successful entrepreneur, Mr. Manish Agrawal visited Purdue on September 5th and he shared his experiences with start-ups in his talk.   Mr. Agrawal shared his experience and key learnings from the entrepreneurial journey of over a decade,...

Ziro, developed in C Design Lab, appears on the magazine of ASME as "Crafty robots teach kids design". The Ziro kit lets children learn fundamental engineering principles while building mobile robots that respond to hand gestures.    ...

Cubimorph project, developed in coordination with Bristol University and our lab, continues to take more attention by a video series called Mind Blow by Youtube channel Vsauce. Please click here for the video.  

Ziro has taken the first place in the list of Lego's Worst Nightmares in Appcessories' website. You can check the list from here.

Members of C Design Lab and our newly joined interns for the summer met in our professor's house for a dinner party last week.  

Ziro was aired on BBC worldwide and Click BBC Flagship tech show several times in May. This was filmed at CES in January 2016. We hope you enjoy watching it.   Ancestor of Ziro, Handimate is created in our labs. You can watch where the idea...

The research is led by a group researchers including Dr. Anne Roudaut from the University of Bristol, Dr. Ramani, and Mike McCoy at CDesign Lab from Purdue, and academics from Lancaster University. Cubimorph has been presented at the International...

Ziro's predecessor Handimate is spotted on IDC poster in CHI 2016. Interactive Design & Children Conference has brought together researchers and practitioners seeking to study how best to develop and design interactive technologies for...

Ziro: World's First Hand-controlled Robotics Kit, is now on Indiegogo. Do not miss your chance to be among the people that get it first.  

C Design Lab gladly announces that it is sponsoring The HANDS Workshop, among other sponsors like NSF, Facebook/Oculus, IEEE Computer Society and CVF. This is the 2nd time this workshop is taking place and researchers who work on hand detection...

Prof. Ramani was a guest to Over Coffee Show, telling more about Ziro, flagship of Zero UI. In this talk you can hear about: How Zero UI’s user interface works; The robots makers can create with the Ziro kit; The materials used to create some of...

After being chosen as “The best of CES 2016 finalists” by Engadget, Ziro keeps getting more famous. The modular robotic toy, that originated from our lab, is now on the Inside Indiana Business for the second time. Prof. Karthik Ramani...

According to the article posted on Engadget “Introducing the Best of CES 2016 finalists!“, Ziro which originated in our labs as Handimate, has been selected as one of the most disruptive products. Ziro has been highlighted in the “BEST...

Our lab Partner ZeroUI Inc. in Cupertino, California, (http://zeroui.com/) is showing Ziro in CES 2016! Please check Ziro (http://www.ziro.io/) for more details. More reports about Ziro in CES 2016 please refer to: Ziro's 'gesture UI' gloves lets...

Our lab Partner ZeroUI Inc. in Cupertino, California, (http://zeroui.com/) has started the prelaunch program for Ziro! Please check Ziro (http://www.ziro.io/) for more details. What is Ziro? Ziro is a modular robotics kit made up of individual...

For having co-authored several highly-cited papers within 2005-2015 time span and as one of the journal’s most prolific and highly-cited authors, the Computer-Aided Design journal (CAD, Elsevier) has nominated and awarded Professor Karthik...

The year was 1984 and in addition to the chalkboards and alphabet posters, our 2nd grade classroom was equipped with an odd, beige box at a table in the back behind the students. It was an Apple II computer and over the course of the year we'd...

Indiana and Purdue University professors design cyberlearning system to make sharing ideas easier From NSF Discovery June 10, 2015 More details please refer to the link: Article:...

HandiMate: exploring a modular robotics kit for animating crafted toys have been downloaded 63 times, reached top 1 downloaded article in past 6 weeks.

Our paper titled "The evolution, challenges, and future of knowledge representation in product design systems" is once again #1 on Elsevier's top 25 hottest articles in Computer-Aided Design, for the year 2014. It was ranked #1 for the year 2103 as...