Yuxiang Cheng
Yuxiang Cheng
Researcher and Designer of Human-Computer Interaction

Yuxiang is a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab's Critical Matter Group, and a former Student Fellow at the Open Source Hardware Association. He builds open-source AI hardware for body-coupled robotics and fabrication — wearable, closed-loop systems for sensing and actuating the body, carried from lab prototype to manufacturable reference design.

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His tech stacks involves:
Design/Fabrication of mechatronic and embedded systems with a industrial design mindset
Advanced manufacturing with novel materials and mechanics (e.g. compliant)
Web development in the context of media arts and ubiquitous computing

Research Areas:

Tangible Intelligence

Hardware that senses and acts on the body, with embedded intelligence.

Perceptual Computing

Multimodal sensing and actuation for non-visual augmentation.

Critical Making

Open-hardware fabrication for distributed, sustainable practice.

In standard terms: TUI, ubiquitous computing, haptics, assistive technology, fabrication, and machine perception.

Here's a link for a PDF version of my featured research projects.

Contribution & Collaboration

Media Arts

Fabrication Studies

Transparent FDM Printing and Its Applications