Jumpei Saito

Tendon-driven mobile robot with two beaded spines connecting three wheeled modules

Beaded Spine Robot

Developed during a summer internship at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

2026-06 – 2026-08Research intern
  • robotics
  • soft robotics
  • mobile robot
  • tendon-driven mechanism

Developed during a summer internship at the Zoom Lab in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2026.

BaSiL climbing wooden steps, with an inset showing tendon-driven bending of its beaded spine

BaSiL: A Tendon-Driven Beaded Spine Robot for Shape-Adaptive Locomotion

Jumpei Saito, Rebecca Carpenter, Shashwat Singh, Zeynep Temel

Miniature Multiterrain and Multimodal Locomotion: from Biology to Robotics, IROS 2026 Workshop

  • Best Demo 3rd Prize
PaperPosterWorkshop website
Two-module wheeled mobile robot connected by a tendon-driven beaded spine, with an inset showing tendon-driven bending

A Tendon-Driven Beaded Spine Robot for Shape-Adaptive Locomotion

Jumpei Saito, Shashwat Singh, Rebecca Carpenter, Zeynep Temel

When Muscles Think: The Embodied Intelligence of Biological and Robotic Actuation, IROS 2026 Workshop

PaperPosterWorkshop website
Tendon-driven mobile robot with two bead-based spines connecting three wheeled modules

A Tendon-Driven Bead-Based Spine for Shape Adaptive Mobile Robot

Jumpei Saito, Shashwat Singh, Becca Carpenter, Zeynep Temel

Robotics Institute Summer Scholars (RISS) 2026

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