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Zhijian Ren

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Publications

8

Citations

442

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8

Active since

2021

Affiliations

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Current)

City University of Hong Kong

Carnegie Mellon University

Zhijian Ren is an author at Massachusetts Institute of Technology specializing in mechanical engineering, soft robotics, and engineering.

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EngineeringSoft RoboticsMechanical EngineeringRoboticsSpace EngineeringActuatorsMechatronicsField RoboticsMechanical DesignSoft Mechatronics

Publications per year

2021–2025

8

Publications

8

A High‐Lift Micro‐Aerial‐Robot Powered by Low‐Voltage and Long‐Endurance Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Zhijian Ren, Suhan Kim, Xiang Ji et al. · Advanced Materials · 2021 · 176 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Flying Robot +18

Collision Resilient Insect-Scale Soft-Actuated Aerial Robots With High Agility

Yufeng Chen, Siyi Xu, Zhijian Ren et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2021 · 100 citations · Full text

Mg Aerial Robot, Engineering, Soft Robotics +15

Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots

Suhan Kim, Yi‐Hsuan Hsiao, Young‐Hoon Lee et al. · Science Robotics · 2023 · 61 citations

Laser-assisted Failure Recovery, Engineering, Soft Robotics +15

Acrobatics at the insect scale: A durable, precise, and agile micro–aerial robot

Suhan Kim, Yi‐Hsuan Hsiao, Zhijian Ren et al. · Science Robotics · 2025 · 26 citations

Liftoff of a soft-actuated micro-aerial-robot powered by triboelectric nanogenerators

Young‐Hoon Lee, Zhijian Ren, Yi‐Hsuan Hsiao et al. · Nano Energy · 2024 · 24 citations

Energy Harvesting, Engineering, Soft Robotics +6

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