Jamie Kyujin Paik is a Canadian engineer who is a professor and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Jamie Paik
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Seoul National University
Scientific career
InstitutionsPierre and Marie Curie University

Harvard University

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Early life and education

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Paik was born in Canada.[1] Her father is a scientist and her mother is a painter.[2][1] She completed her bachelor's degree at University of British Columbia.[3] She majored in mechanical engineering.[3] She earned her PhD at Seoul National University, sponsored by Samsung Electronics.[4] Her PhD considered the limbs of anthropomorphic robots.[2]

Research

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Paik worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Pierre and Marie Curie University, where she worked on laparoscopic tools. JAIMY, a 5 mm size motorised robot, can be used to assist suturing during surgery.[2] It is available commercially through Endocontrol Medical.[2][5] She joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Erik Demaine, Daniela L. Rus and Robert Wood.[2]

In 2012, Paik founded the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[1][6] She is a member of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research.[2][7] Her recent work focuses on robotic origami, robogami.[8][4] She developed vacuum-powered Soft Pneumatic Actuators for compliant robotics.[9][10][11] She was an invited speaker at the Obama Administration's Women Inspire Innovation workshop in 2013.[12] She was a judge at the 2016 and 2018 Soft Robotics Toolkit competition.[13] She was a participant at the 2018 Science Foo Camp. She was a 2019 TED Conferences speaker.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Sculpting robots". www.snf.ch. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Jamie Paik and her". Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  3. ^ a b "Jamie Paik | UBC Engineering". engineering.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  4. ^ a b "Jamie Paik : Biography and current work". people.epfl.ch (in French). Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  5. ^ "JAIMY-EN". Endocontrol Medical. 2017-04-02. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  6. ^ NCCR Robotics (2017-05-12), Meet the Paik Lab, retrieved 2018-06-27
  7. ^ "Prof. Jamie Paik – Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory (RRL), EPFL – NCCR Robotics". www.nccr-robotics.ch. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  8. ^ "Introducing Robogami: A 3D Printable Origami Robot | 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing". 3dprint.com. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  9. ^ "New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities | Robohub". robohub.org. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  10. ^ Robertson, Matthew A.; Paik, Jamie (2017-08-30). "New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities". Science Robotics. 2 (9): eaan6357. doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aan6357. ISSN 2470-9476. PMID 33157853. S2CID 206669827.
  11. ^ "Novel actuation methods for reconfigurable soft robots". portal.klewel.com. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  12. ^ Embassy of Switzerland in the United States (2013-05-23), Women Inspire Innovation: Jamie Paik, EPFL, retrieved 2018-06-27
  13. ^ "2016 Soft Robotics Competitions". Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  14. ^ "Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves". 10 July 2019.