Biointegrative Design (BinD) Featured on the Cover of Global Challenges!
October 2026
A new Perspective by Aslan Miriyev, “Biointegrative Design (BinD): An Interdisciplinary Paradigm for Sustainable Biohybrid Systems,” has been published in Global Challenges and featured on the cover of its October 2026 issue.
The paper introduces BinD, a new design paradigm that treats biological growth, adaptation, regeneration and degradation as intrinsic variables in the development of biohybrid systems. It proposes an iterative methodology for creating sustainable living machines and explores the implications for manufacturing, applications and interdisciplinary research.
Read the open-access paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.70162
October issue front cover: https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.70168
Credit: Aslan Miriyev
PAI Lab at ESPS 2026!
September 2026
PAI Lab participated in the 9th European Symposium of Photopolymer Science (ESPS 2026), held in Vienna, Austria.
Aslan Miriyev presented our research on “3D-Printable Ionic Photopolymer Composites for Physical AI.”
It was a wonderful event and a great opportunity to reconnect with PAI Lab alumnus Dr. Sergey Nechausov and meet our co-author Maksims Jurinovs from Riga Technical University.
The conference presentations are available online, including Aslan's talk.
PAI Lab at Northwestern University!
May-September 2026
Our Ph.D. student Yuchen Wang completed a three-month research visit to Prof. Ryan Truby's Robotic Matter Lab at Northwestern University, USA.
The visit was funded by the Crown Family Fellowship and the Israel Innovation Project of Northwestern University, as part of our collaboration on multifunctional materials and architected soft robotic systems.
The collaboration has also resulted in a joint research manuscript submitted for publication in October 2026.
We thank Prof. Ryan Truby and his team for hosting Yuchen and for the excellent collaboration!
PAI Lab at the EuroEAP 2026 Conference!
June 2-4. 2026
PAI Lab participated in the International Conference on Soft Transducers and Electromechanically Active Polymers (EuroEAP 2026), held in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
We presented our latest research on soft iontronic materials for Physical AI and discussed their potential for developing multifunctional robotic systems.
Congratulations to Yuchen Wang on Defending His Ph.D. Proposal!
October 2025
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Yuchen Wang on successfully defending his doctoral research proposal!
This important milestone marks a new stage in Yuchen's research journey at PAI Lab. We wish him continued success and look forward to the exciting results ahead!
PAI Lab visited the IEEE RoboSoft 2025 in Lausanne, Switzerland
April 22-27, 2025
IEEE RoboSoft is the central annual event of the Soft Robotics community. This year, RoboSoft brought together >800 people from very diverse fields and locations. Yuchen Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in our lab, presented his work on soft and fully sustainable 3D-printable wearables in his oral presentation, followed by a poster session with Q&A:
AFOSR Grant Awarded!
March 26, 2025
A new grant by AFOSR was awarded to advance the research on physical AI through the understanding of nonlinearities in soft ionic systems.
I-wi: Ionic wires paper is published in Additive Manufacturing (Impact Factor 10.3; Citescore 19.8)
March 16, 2025
We developed the first 3D-printable, stretchable ionogel and ionic eutectogel wires (i-wi) capable of transmitting both AC and DC
signals in both resting and extended conditions. Read this open-access paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2025.104743
Collaboration with Northwestern University Funded!
January 29, 2025
A new collaboration with Prof. Ryan Truby of Northwestern University, funded by the Crown Family Fellowship and the Israel Innovation Project of Northwestern University. It includes the PAI lab student's 3-month research at Northwestern's Robotic Matter Lab.
MOST Israel-France Collaboration Grant Awarded!
December 1, 2024
IonicHap: This groundbreaking two-year collaboration with Dr. Claudio Pacchierotti from INRIA, France, was made possible through funding from the Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology (MOST).
ISF Grants Awarded!
August 8, 2024
The PAI research received incredible recognition from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), which granted a 1.2M personal research grant for 4 years and a generous equipment grant.
Congratulations to Dr. Sergey Nechausov
July 28, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Sergey Nechausov - the PAI Lab's 2024 alumnus, on completing 2 fruitful years at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and moving on to Germany to a position at HIPOLE Jena - Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications! Sergey spent the past two years studying multifunctional ionic and mixed ionic-electronic conductivity (MIEC) materials as components of physically intelligent systems. Among other achievements and contributions, Sergey received a competitive Kreitman School Scholarship for Postdoctoral Studies and led the Chemical Engineering Journal (CEJ) paper on 3D-Printable high-mixed-conductivity ionogel composites for soft multifunctional devices (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.153759). More great news about our research to come. Thank you, Sergey, for your contributions to our PAI laboratory and research – it was a pleasure to have you in the PAI lab!
The PAI Lab's First Research Paper Is Out!
Update: July 21, 2024
Our publication, featured in the journal ranked in the top 3% in related categories, was awarded open-access funding of $4,490 by the Office of the VP of R&D at BGU, which supports open-access publications in leading journals.
July 16, 2024
BGU published a press release about our work, and it is titled "New Soft Multifunctional Sensors Mark a Step Forward for Physical AI".
Link to the paper: 3D-Printable high-mixed-conductivity ionogel composites for soft multifunctional devices - ScienceDirect
Link to BGU press release: https://www.bgu.ac.il/en/news-and-articles/new-soft-multifunctional-sensors-mark-a-step-forward-for-physical-ai/
Link to the publication on EurekAlert!: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1051313
PAI Lab at the ESPS 2024, 8th European Symposium of Photopolymer Science
June 17, 2024
Dr. Sergey Nechausov presents our work on soft multifunctional ionic composites at ESPS 2024 in Stresa, Italy:
