Anjali Agrawala

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Anjali Agrawala is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics and embedded systems, where she tackles the fundamental challenge of giving deformable machines the ability to think and sense. Her landmark 2024 work on "Stretchable Arduinos embedded in soft robots" (66 citations) introduced a paradigm-shifting approach to integrating computational capacity directly into compliant bodies, replacing rigid circuit boards with stretchable electronics that move and flex with their host. This breakthrough enables soft robots to perform real-time decision-making without sacrificing their inherent compliance. Agrawala has also made critical contributions to robot proprioception, developing "Sensor Tendons" (21 citations) that use liquid metal electrodes to measure strains exceeding 100%, and characterizing how temperature and humidity affect soft elastomer behavior (24 citations)—essential knowledge for deploying robots in unstructured environments like space. Her wearable glove technology for dynamic hand proprioception (2023) extends her sensing innovations to human motion capture. With a rapidly growing citation record and work that bridges materials science, electronics, and robotics, Agrawala is defining how future robots will think, feel, and adapt in the real world.