News

Laboratory news since 2012

53 entries: awards, papers, grants, defenses, and where our graduates went next.

2026

05/2026We received a $2.35 million NIH R01 grant renewal on the design and control of powered unloader orthoses for knee osteoarthritis.

12/2025Locolab wins the IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology Oustanding Paper Award for "A Modular Framework for Task-Agnostic, Energy Shaping Control of Lower-Limb Exoskeletons".
10/2025Locolab publishes JNER study showing improved amputee outcomes using phase-based controller on the Össur Power Knee.
10/2025Dr. Gregg gives a plenary talk at the 2025 Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC).
07/2025Congrats to Dr. T. Kevin Best, Dr. Ross Cortino, and Dr. Chris Nestani on successfully defending their dissertations.
05/2025Dr. Gregg gives a keynote talk at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), see recording here.
02/2025Dr. Gregg is co-organizing an ICRA25 workshop entitled State of the Art in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: Exploring Specificity vs. Generalizability Across Users and Activities.

06/2024Congrats to Dr. Shihao Cheng for successfully defending his dissertation.

12/2023We received a $3 million NIH R01 renewal on modeling and control of continuously-varying activities for agile powered prosthetic legs.
10/2023Shihao Cheng wins the 2023 IROS Best Student Paper Award.
08/2023Congrats to Dr. Emma Reznick and Dr. Nikhil Divekar for successfully defending their dissertations.
04/2023Congrats to Dr. Gray Thomas for accepting a tenure-track faculty position at Texas A&M University.
01/2023Prof. Gregg is the Program Chair of the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Detroit, MI.

09/2021We received a $1.7 million NIH R01 grant on the design and control of modular powered orthoses for broad patient populations.
08/2021Congratulations to Dr. Jianping Lin for successfully defending his dissertation.

11/2020Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Horn and Dr. Mark Yeatman for successfully defending their dissertations.
08/2020Prof. Gregg, Prof. Rouse, and Prof. Rombokas receive a new NSF NRI grant on open-source control methods for robotic prosthetic legs.
08/2020Congratulations to Dr. Kyle Embry and Dr. Saurav Kumar for successfully defending their dissertations. Dr. Embry accepted a postdoc position at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab and Dr. Kumar accepted a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University.
07/2020Our latest robotic leg design was published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and highlighted in this article.
05/2020Congratulations to Dr. Toby Elery, Dr. David Allen, and Dr. Hanqi Zhu for successfully defending their dissertations.

12/2019Congratulations to Dr. Ge Lv for accepting a tenure-track faculty position at Clemson University.
08/2019Prof. Gregg and the LocoLab have moved to the University of Michigan!
06/2019Congrats to Dr. Siavash Rezazadeh for accepting a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Denver.

11/2018Our backdrivable exoskeleton research was published as the cover article of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.
09/2018Prof. Gregg, Dr. Rezazadeh, and Prof. Rouse receive a new NSF NRI grant to investigate robust compliant actuators.
08/2018Prof. Gregg receives a $2.2 million NIH R01 grant to investigate the control of agile powered prosthetic legs.
04/2018Congratulations to Dr. David Quintero and Dr. Ge Lv for successfully defending their dissertations.
03/2018Congratulations to Dr. Alireza Mohammadi who will join the faculty at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in Fall 2018.
01/2018IEEE Transactions on Robotics to publish our latest study on powered prosthetic leg control with three amputee subjects.

10/2017Ph.D. student Edgar Bolivar wins the Best Student Robotics Paper Award of the 2017 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conf..
08/2017Prof. Gregg and collaborators Prof. Rouse and Prof. Geyer receive a new NSF grant through the National Robotics Initiative 2.0.
08/2017Prof. Gregg and Prof. Gans receive a new NSF grant through the Dynamics, Control, and Systems Diagnostics program.
05/2017Congrats to Dr. Dario Villarreal for graduating and accepting a tenure-track faculty position at Southern Methodist University.
02/2017Prof. Gregg receives the NSF CAREER Award.

11/2016We conducted our first amputee experiment with our robotic knee-ankle prosthesis.
10/2016LocoLab welcomes postdoctoral fellow Alireza Mohammadi, Ph.D. from University of Toronto.
09/2016Prof. Gregg and collaborator Prof. Kaveh Hamed receive a NSF grant through the National Robotics Initiative.
08/2016LocoLab welcomes Chris Nesler from Northwestern University, joining the lab as Research Engineer.

12/2015Ph.D. student Ge Lv wins the Best Student Paper Award of the 2015 IEEE Conf. Decision & Control, congrats Ge.
09/2015LocoLab welcomes Dr. Siavash Rezazadeh from Oregon State University, joining the lab as Research Scientist.
08/2015LocoLab research featured in the MIT Technology Review.
04/2015Congratulations to Dr. Anne Martin who will join the faculty at Penn State University in 2016.
04/2015Renovations finished for our new gait lab at the UT Southwestern Medical Center.
03/2015Congratulations to Hanqi Zhu for receiving the Founder's Distinguished Graduate Fellowship.

12/2014FastCoLabs highlights our recent study published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
06/2014LocoLab welcomes postdoctoral fellow Anne Martin, Ph.D. from University of Notre Dame.
04/2014Prof. Gregg gives the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Texas Association of Orthotists and Prosthetists.

09/2013Prof. Gregg is awarded the 2013 NIH Director's New Innovator Award ($2.3 million over 5 years) to research phase-based control of locomotion for high-performance prostheses and orthoses.
06/2013Ph.D. student Dario Villarreal is awarded the CONACYT graduate fellowship.
06/2013The faculty phase begins for Prof. Gregg's $500,000 Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
06/2013Prof. Gregg joins the faculty of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at UT Dallas.