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Ellande Tang is a robotics researcher whose work centers on tensegrity-based robotic systems, soft robotics, and novel actuation mechanisms — areas at the intersection of structural engineering and autonomous systems. Tang is perhaps best known for contributions to spherical tensegrity robot design, most prominently through research on rod-centered actuation and control frameworks that enable fully modular, robust platforms suited for both co-robotic collaboration and space exploration. This work has garnered significant attention, accumulating over 100 citations and establishing Tang as a notable voice in the tensegrity robotics community. Beyond foundational design, Tang has advanced practical deployment of these systems by developing control strategies for locomotion on steep inclined surfaces — a challenging problem that the research addresses through simultaneous multi-cable actuation, demonstrated successfully in hardware experiments (41 citations). To accelerate the broader research cycle, Tang also contributed a modular elastic lattice prototyping platform that streamlines manufacturing and improves experimental repeatability. More recently, Tang introduced double-helix linear actuators, a compact mechanism capable of delivering high forces across large displacements, pointing toward future applications in space-efficient robotic systems. Collectively, Tang's portfolio reflects a consistent drive to bridge theoretical structural concepts with deployable, real-world robotic solutions.