{"id":5894,"date":"2025-04-17T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5894"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:13:19","slug":"sheila-russo","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/profile\/sheila-russo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Russo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2026 REU Project: <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/01\/13\/russo\/\" style=\"color: #008080;\">Pneumatically Tunable Soft Optical 3DOF Contact Sensor for Force and Touch Detection<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span><strong>Professor Sheila Russo\u2019s<\/strong> Material Robotics Lab focuses on the design, mechanics, and manufacturing of novel multi-scale and multi-material biomedical robotic systems.background is at the intersection of biomedical robotics, soft robotics, advanced manufacturing, and advanced materials technologies. <\/span><span>Her research focuses on design, development, and fabrication of biocompatible, smart, soft, and miniaturized surgical robots that could help restore sensor feedback and distal dexterity in minimally invasive procedures. <\/span><span>She is interested in developing robotic technologies to improve human health, tackling current limitations in medicine and enabling novel therapies not possible to perform today.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/01\/13\/russo\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous REU\/RET Projects Include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6603&amp;preview=true\">Simulation of the Lung Environment for Validation of Soft Robot Bronchoscopy<\/a> (REU, 2024)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6589&amp;preview=true\">Hybrid Surgical Robot Project<\/a> (REU, 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":22341,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22341"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10654,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5894\/revisions\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}