2022 - Create the Future Design Contest, Grand Prize Winner ($25,000 + $1,500 Travel)
- Award-Winning Invention Enables Exciting New Applications of Robots
2021 - Hackaday Prize: Grand Prize Winner, ($25,000 + DesignLab Residency)
- FlowIO Takes Top Honors in the 2021 Hackaday Prize
- FlowIO chosen as Grand Prize Winner of 2021 Hackaday Design Prize
- Video: Comments from the Judges
2022 - Core77 Design Award, Professional Winner, Design Education Initiative Award
- Pneubots Toolkit
2022 - International Design Awards (iDA): Gold in Robotics, Silver in Education
- Project profile page
- FlowIO wins two prizes at International Design Awards (IDA)
2021 - iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD
- Project profile page and jury statement
- FlowIO wins iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD 2021
2021 - ACM CHI 2021 Graduate Student Research Competition: 1st Place
- Awards at CHI 2021
- ACM Award Winners Page
- Ali Shtarbanov named as winner of the CHI 2021 Student Research Competition (Graduate Level)
2021 - A'Design Award: Silver in Scientific Instruments and Research Tools
- Project page
- Ali Shtarbanov designer profile page
- Media Lab researchers honored in 2021 A'Design Awards
2020 - IROS'20 Workshop on Application‑Oriented Modeling and Control of Soft Robots: 1st Place
- Award winners
2022 -Fast Company, Innovation by Design, Finalist
- Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees
2021 - International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA): Finalist
