Aaron Becker

Assistant Professor of Robotics at University of Houston.

Aaron Becker's passion is robotics & control. As an Assistant Prof. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, he is building a robotics lab. An NSF '16 CAREER recipient & winner of several best papers, his lab manipulates micro-scale swarms with magnetic fields, navigates robotic tools using medical MRIs, kills mosquitos with drones, searches for oil, and assembles structures with swarms.

Previously as a Research Fellow with Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, he implemented robotics powered and controlled by the magnetic field of an MRI. As a Rice University Postdoc in the Multi-Robot Systems Lab, Aaron investigated control of distributed systems and nanorobotics with experts in the fields. Aaron earned his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Details last updated 02-Apr-2020

Aaron Becker News

Tiny Magnetic Hammer Drives Through Brain Tissue

IEEE Spectrum - 29-Jan-2018

MRI-powered millirobot may enable precise brain procedures like biopsies and cyst piercing

Swarm of dumb robots can penetrate tissue

IEEE Spectrum - 25-Jun-2015

Magnetic robots manoeuvred in MRI machine to form Gauss gun. Big at the moment but technology onl...