In September 2023, Jim and his family relocated to England, where Jim has taken up the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.  He is also a Fellow and College Lecturer at Gonville and Caius College, where Rodney Hill, David Tabor, Stephen Hawking, and a great many others […]

It’s been a long time since there has been activity on this website.  As of today, that is changing!  There is a lot of stuff to share, including cool things that students in the Hambleton Research Group have been up to, and things that I (Jim) have been up to.   That includes a few graduations, […]

We are delighted to be participating in the recently awarded NSF project entitled EFRI C3 SoRo: Strong Soft Robots—Multiscale Burrowing and Inverse Design, led by Prof. Tim Kowalewski in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Our focus in the $1.98M project is on fundamental aspects of robots capable of inferring soil […]

Here is the full video from Tierney Acott’s visit to the SSI-SMI Lab.  You will see Jim, Zhefei, Sae, and Sam as well as eyebrow jiggles, geomechanics, and robots.  Many thanks to Tierney and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University.     Link: youtu.be/Tcn2jjhXH58

Please forgive the anachronism of these next few posts as we catch up on events of the past few months.