Tommaso Ranzani
Assistant Professor (ME, MSE, BME)
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon
Professor Tommaso Ranzani leads the Morphable Biorobotics Lab whose focus is robotic technologies for medicine, surgery, rehabilitation, and exploration. Dr. Ranzani has extensive experience in the development of medical robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). He explored different technologies and developed a number of manufacturing paradigms to design and manufacture innovative robotic systems and tools. His main research area is soft robotics, he has explored soft robotic technologies to develop novel manipulators, which integrate design principles from biological systems for performing advanced procedures in MIS. He is interested in expanding the potential of soft robots across different scales to develop novel reconfigurable soft-bodied robots.
Previous REU/RET Projects Include:
- Designing a Soft Bioinspired Grasper for Underwater Manipulation (REU, 2025)
- Integrated Sensing for a Soft Robot used in Minimally Invasive Procedures (REU, 2025)
- User Interface for Electronic Control of a Biospired Soft Robot (REU, 2024)
- Design of a Soft Manipulator for Beating Heart Procedures (REU, 2023)
- Robotic Stabilization for Beating Heart Procedures (RET, 2023)
- Utilizing Magnetorheological Fluid and Jamming Materials in Stiffening Wearable Applications (RET, 2022)
- Variable Stiffness Soft Wearable Devices Using MR Fluids (REU, 2021)
- Departments
- Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering
- Affiliation
- Faculty
- Program Year
- 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025