We are delighted to share that Professor Jee-Hwan Ryu has received the KAIST Breakthroughs ‘Readers’ Choice Award’ for the Fall 2025 issue.

His featured research, “A New solution enabling soft growing robots to perform a variety of tasks in confined spaces,” was selected as the most-read article of the season, highlighting the impact of the lab’s work on the future of robotics.

We are proud to announce that Professor Jee-Hwan Ryu was invited as a keynote speaker at the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), held in Hangzhou, China.

We are proud to announce that the paper, “Embodied Auxetic Intelligence in a Glove-Type Wearable Haptic Interface Connecting Humans,” has been selected as the cover feature for the August 22, 2025, issue of Advanced Functional Materials (Vol. 35, No. 34).

This past August 21st, our lab held its annual summer retreat at Donghaksa to foster teamwork and refresh our minds.

As the spring semester comes to a close, our lab gathered for a dinner celebration to mark the end of a fruitful academic term and to honor the significant achievements of our lab members.

Soft Growing Robots team from our laboratory, comprised of Ph.D. candidates Dongoh Seo and Nam Gyun Kim, along with Professor Jee-Hwan Ryu, was honored with the 2024 Best Paper Award at the prestigious 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Atlanta, USA. The award recognizes their outstanding paper published in Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), a premier robotics journal under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

A refreshing spring gathering brought our lab members together through strawberries, cherry blossoms, and shared smiles 🍓🌸

We hosted Meta at IRiS Lab KAIST, sharing hands-on demos of our cutting-edge robotics research and exchanging insights at the intersection of academia and industry.

We celebrated the graduation of two Ph.D. and one Master’s student from IRiS Lab this February—wishing them success on their next journey!

Our lab MT in February was a blast—skiing, bonding, and recharging together at Alpensia Ski Resort 🎿❄️