Grand Prize ($25,000 + $1,500 Travel), Create the Future Design Contest, 2022
FlowIO Platform
Ali Shtarbanov, Ozgun Afsar, Hye Jun Youn, Prof. Joseph Paradiso
Announcements and Press:
- Magazine Article and Interview
- Winners list
- Award-Winning Invention Enables Exciting New Applications of Robots
I donated this award to establish a new initiative. See my LinkedIn post for details.
Grand Prize, ($25,000 + DesignLab Residency), Hackaday Prize, 2021
FlowIO Platform
Ali Shtarbanov
- FlowIO chosen as Grand Prize Winner of 2021 Hackaday Design Prize
- Video: Comments from the Judges and Award Announcement
Winner - 1st Place, ACM CHI Student Research Competition, 2021
FlowIO Development Platform – the Pneumatic “Raspberry Pi” for Soft Robotics
Ali Shtarbanov
- Awards at CHI 2021
- ACM Award Winners Page
- Ali Shtarbanov named as winner of the CHI 2021 Student Research Competition (Graduate Level)
Best Poster Award, IEEE IROS 2020 Workshop, Application‑Oriented Modeling and Control of Soft Robots
Introducing FlowIO – Modular, Integrated Development Platform for Soft Robotics
Ali Shtarbanov, Joseph Paradiso
- Winners list
Winner - 1st Place, Core77 Design Award, Design Education Initiative, 2022
PneuBots Toolkit
Hye Jun Youn, Ali Shtarbanov
Gold - Robotics, Silver - Education, International Design Awards (iDA), 2022
FlowIO Platform
Ali Shtarbanov, Ozgun Afsar, Hye Jun Youn, Prof. Joseph Paradiso
Announcements and Press:
- FlowIO wins two prizes at International Design Awards (IDA)
Winner, iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD, 2021
- Project profile and jury statement
- FlowIO wins iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD 2021
Silver, A'Design Award, Scientific Instruments and Research Tools, 2021
FlowIO Pneumatics Development Platform
Ali Shtarbanov, Ozgun Afsar, Hye Jun Youn, Prof. Joseph Paradiso
- Ali Shtarbanov designer profile page
- Media Lab researchers honored in 2021 A'Design Awards
Bronze, A'Design Award, Textile, Fabric, and Cloth Design category, 2022
OmniFiber Self Sensing Morphing Textiles
Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Ali Shtarbanov, Hiroshi Ishii
Top 100, (Exhibition + $1,000 Travel), Prototypes for Humanity, 2023
Selected among 3,000+ projects from 710 universities across 108 countries.
https://www.prototypesforhumanity.com/project/flowio-platform/
Finalist, Fast Company, Innovation by Design, 2023
Peristaltic Suit - Irmandy Wicaksono, Ali Shtarbanov, Dava Newman, Joseph Paradiso
- Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees
Finalist, Fast Company, Innovation by Design, 2022
Omnifiber - Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Ali Shtarbanov, Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Jack Forman, Seung Hee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Kristina Höök, Hiroshi Ishii
- Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees
Finalist, International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), 2021
