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.

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

Jumpei Saito, Shashwat Singh, Becca Carpenter, Zeynep Temel

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

Research programRobotics Institute Summer Scholars (RISS) 2026

Poster · Technical report · Aug 2026 · Not peer reviewed · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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