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The Beckman Institute is a unique engine for research. We're making incredible advances while helping ordinary people.
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Our doors are open! We offer a cafe with drinks and daily specials, events from yoga to research lectures, and plenty of study and meeting spaces.
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The Beckman Institute brings researchers from many disciplines together to collaborate. The result: scientific advances that couldn’t occur any other way.
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Sameh Tawfick

Professor

Primary Affiliation

Autonomous Materials Systems

Affiliations

Status Part-time Faculty

Home Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering

Phone 244-6303

Email tawfick@illinois.edu

Address 3355 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue

Press

2019
- A new twist on artificial muscles
2018
- Strong carbon fiber artificial muscles can lift 12,600 times their own weight
2017
- A low-cost crawling robot designed using origami technique