Electronic-Free Systems

Electronic systems often add fabrication cost, power requirements, and vulnerability—especially in harsh environments such as deep sea or space. We build mechanically encoded systems that enable communication, deployment, actuation, and sensing with minimal or no electronics through carefully designed architectures and geometry.

Selected publications:

1. Xinyi Yang, Bohan Wang, Víctor Riera Naranjo, Minghao Guo, Olivia Rivera, Leonid Sopizhenko, Shucong Li, William Freeman, Wojciech Matusik, Bolei Deng (2025). Electronic-Free Particle Robots Communicate through Architected Tentacles. Advanced Intelligent Systems.
2. Yibo Fu, Vivian Shen, Víctor Riera Naranjo, Bolei Deng, Alex Adams, Josiah Hester (2025). SoundOff: Low-cost Passive Ultrasound Tags for Non-invasive and Non-Intrusive Smart Home Sensing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.
3. Bolei Deng#, Mohamed Zanaty#, Antonio E Forte, Katia Bertoldi (2022). Topological solitons make metamaterials crawl. Physical Review Applied.