Keep up with the Bhamla Lab

Read more about our work on field research at the Jungle Biomechanics Lab here.

We will be moving to the Biofrontiers Institute at CU Boulder in Fall 2026.

Ben wins the grand prize of £1,000, which will help him further develop his prototype, TinkerTrap, a low-cost, customizable wildlife camera.

Lab members enjoyed their time in the nice weather at Cypress

Congratulations to our high schoolers and undergraduates for presenting their posters at the end of the summer semester!

Congratulations to Maria and Valentina for winning the PURA award as well as their mentors Nami and Rajas!

Dr. Jacob will be moving on to start his own lab as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Morehouse College! 🌟

Charles Anderson has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. He is one of two Georgia Tech students to receive this honor. Read more here

We won the IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Mechanisms and Design "for using soft robot worm blobs to elucidate entanglement-mediated coordination”

Read our new paper here on the fluid dynamics of Manu Jumping.

Read our new paper here on the flotation of aquatic worms.

Our work on multi-robot swarms was a best paper finalist. Read more about the work here.

Read our new paper on how flamingos use their L-shaped beaks to capture prey. Download the paper

Our lab recently received the CDFA grant which will help develop multimodal lures for Lanternfly Detection. Read more here.

Saad received an award for outstanding achievement in early research career. Read more here.

Check out our new paper on ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots. Read more here.

Our lab was recently awarded the HFSP grant which will support research work on RNA-based memory