Publications

Voxel Invention Kit: Reconfigurable building blocks for prototyping interactive electronic structures

Miana Smith, Jack Forman, Amira Abdel-Rahman, and Neil Gershenfeld

CHI 2025.

Digital Material, HCI.

Self-Reconfigurable Robots for Collaborative Discrete Lattice Assembly

Miana Smith, Amira Abdel-Rahman, and Neil Gershenfeld.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.

Material-robot system, Digital Material, Reconfigurable Robots, Swarm Robotics.

Style2Fab: Functionality-Aware Segmentation for Fabricating Personalized 3D Models with Generative AI

Faraz Faruqi, Ahmed Katary, Tarik Hasic, Amira Abdel-Rahman, Nayeemur Rahman, Leandra Tejedor, Mackenzie Leake, Megan Hofmann and Stefanie Mueller.

UIST 2023 (pp. 1-13).

Generative AI, Computational Fabrication.

Modular Morphing Lattices for Large Scale Underwater Continuum Robotic Structures

Alfonso Parra Rubio, Dixia Fan, Benjamin Jenett, José del Águila Ferrandis,Filippos Tourlomousis, Amira Abdel-Rahman, David Preiss, Michael Triantafyllou and Neil Gershenfeld.

Soft Robotics Journal, 2023.

Soft Robots, Modular Robots, Digital Material, Swimming Robots.

Self-Replicating Hierarchical Modular Robotic Swarms

Amira Abdel-Rahman, Christopher Cameron, Benjamin Jenett, Miana Smith, and Neil Gershenfeld

Nature Communications Engineering, 2022.

Swarm Robotics, Material-Robot Systems, Modular Robotics.

Discrete Integrated Circuit Electronics (DICE)

Zach Fredin, Jiri Zemanek, Camron Blackburn, Erik Strand, Amira Abdel-Rahman, Premila Rowles, and Neil Gershenfeld

IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, 2020.

Co-Design Software Hardware, Discrete Electronics, Design Tools.

Space ants: constructing and reconfiguring large-scale structures with finite automata.

Amira Abdel-Rahman, Aaron T. Becker, Daniel E. Biediger, Kenneth C. Cheung, Sándor P. Fekete, Neil A. Gershenfeld, Sabrina Hugo et al.

Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), 2020.

Swarm Robotics, Material-Robot Systems, Modular Robotics.

Recognition and reconfiguration of lattice-based cellular structures by simple robots.

Eike Niehs, Arne Schmidt, Christian Scheffer, Daniel E. Biediger, Michael Yannuzzi, Benjamin Jenett, Amira Abdel-Rahman, Kenneth C. Cheung, Aaron T. Becker, and Sándor P. Fekete

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2020.

Swarm Robotics, Material-Robot Systems, Modular Robotics.

Material-robot system for assembly of discrete cellular structures.

Benjamin Jenett*, Amira Abdel-Rahman*, Kenneth Cheung, and Neil Gershenfeld.

Robotics and Automation Letters IEEE, 2019

Swarm Robotics, Material-Robot Systems, Modular Robotics.

Algorithmic approaches to reconfigurable assembly systems.

Allan Costa, Amira Abdel-Rahman, Benjamin Jenett, Neil Gershenfeld, Irina Kostitsyna, and Kenneth Cheung

IEEE Aerospace Conference, pages 1–8. IEEE, 2019

Swarm Robotics, Material-Robot Systems, Modular Robotics.

Blockchain Design for an Embedded System.

Sara Falcone, John Zhang, Agnes Cameron, and Amira Abdel-Rahman

Procedure of the First Symposium on Blockchain Robotics, Ledger 2019

blockchain, swarm robotics, embedded systems, mapping and exploration.

Design of thermally deformable laminates using machine learning.

Amira Abdel-Rahman, Marcin Kosicki, Panagiotis Michalatos, and Martha Tsigkari

SEMC (Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation), Elsevier, 2019

Machine Learning, Inverse Design, Non-linear FEA.

Magnetic Morphing.

Amira Abdel-Rahman and Panagiotis Michalatos.

The 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), pages 18–27, 2017

Magnetic Morphing, Swarm Robotics, Inverse Design.

Shape Morphing : Swarm Magnetics

Amira Abdel-Rahman

Master’s thesis, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2017

Magnetic Morphing, Swarm Robotics, Inverse Design.

Heat-actuated Auxetic Facades

Amira Abdel-Rahman and Elnaz Tafrihi

Facade Tectonics 2018

Passive Actuation, Auxetic Morphing, Shape-memory Polymers.

Parametric analysis of solar shading parameters in intermediate orientations located in desert climates

Ayman Wagdy, Sarah Mokhtar, and Amira Abdel-Rahman

International Building Simulation Conference (IBPSA), 2016

Daylight Simulation, Performance Design.