Tommaso Ranzani

Assistant Professor (ME, MSE, BME)

Office 730 Commonwealth Ave., EMA 210
Email tranzani@bu.edu
Phone 617-353-1127
Website Ranzani Lab

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Honors and Awards

NIH Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators, 2020

Areas of Interest

Professor 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.

Research Areas

Robotics, Soft Robotics, BioRobotics, Medical Robotics, Advanced Manufacturing

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Departments or Divisions: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Affiliations: Intelligent, Autonomous & Secure Systems, Primary & Affiliated Faculty

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