P S Sreetharan

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P. S. Sreetharan is a pioneer in the development of millimeter-scale robotics, a field that bridges the gap between traditional microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and larger conventional machines. His key research areas include mesoscale fabrication, biologically-inspired locomotion, and micro-aerial vehicle design. Sreetharan’s most significant contribution is the invention of a versatile, monolithic fabrication technique that enables the creation of complex, articulated machines at the centimeter scale—a critical size range that had previously been notoriously difficult to manufacture. This work, detailed in his highly cited 2012 paper “Monolithic fabrication of millimeter-scale machines” (183 citations), has provided a foundational toolkit for building tiny robots. He applied this method to create a 2-gram hexapod robot capable of rapid, biologically-inspired locomotion (92 citations), and has also driven progress on sub-gram “pico” air vehicles (156 citations), addressing fundamental challenges in flight at insect-like scales. Sreetharan’s work is not merely academic; it directly enables the next generation of autonomous, insect-sized robots for applications in search-and-rescue, environmental monitoring, and medical procedures.