About the Team

Amanda is a senior at Bucknell University majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in Legal Studies. She is a Presidential Fellow and has been a member on Professor Buffinton’s soft-robotics research team as part of her fellowship since August 2017. She has held multiple roles on this project at different times and has completed a…

Ryan Bailis is a current junior at Bucknell University studying Computer Engineering and Management. He has been involved with the soft-robotics research lab since January 2019 where he has been studying the dynamic response of a Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Enclosure (FREE). Through experimentation and mathematical modeling, his work has focused on altering material properties such as…

Devin Whalen is a junior majoring in electrical engineering with a concentration in physical electronics, a minor in physics, and a minor in math. Devin is part of the Presidential Fellows program at Bucknell and excited to be returning to the soft robotics research team this semester. Devin’s interests outside of engineering include painting, singing,…

Keith W. Buffinton is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University.  Prof. Buffinton received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering summa cum laude from Tufts University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.  Following his graduate studies, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.  He has been at Bucknell since…