We’re interested in understanding and designing complex and emergent systems—systems of many independent interacting components, where each component may be understood very well in isolation, but when many of them get together, some interesting new collective behavior appears. We study these systems from both a scientific and an engineering standpoint: Can we predict the collective outcome from the rules the individual agents follow? Can we design low-level behaviors that guarantee a particular high-level result?
Latest News
WSJ on RETHi
The Wall Street Journal writes about the RETHi work on deep space habitats.
Bioinspiration webinar
Great conversation on bioinspired robotics and structural engineering with Tanya Latty and Mark Elgar for the Bioinspiration webinar series at the University of Melbourne.
Root joins iRobot
TEDxPrincetonU
Justin's second TEDx talk, at TEDxPrincetonU's 2018 event, is on a more expected topic.
MassTLC crowns Root
Root wins the MassTLC "Influential Consumer Tech of the Year" award!