The Slade Lab
We improve personal mobility to help people live fulfilling lives.
Welcome!
We develop devices to overcome mobility challenges and help people live fulfilling lives. We accomplish this by combining biomechanics, advanced robotic devices, and human-centered artificial intelligence to create effective systems. We aim to translate this research into impactful products to improve everyday mobility.
Lab News
June 2025: Congratulations to Chelsey Campillo Rodriguez for winning the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI) poster prize at the 2025 Female Athlete Conference!
May 2025: National Biomechanics Day at Harvard was a success! Thanks to Jordan Feldman for leading the effort and the support across several labs at Harvard: the Biodesign Lab, the Move Lab, and the BIONICs lab.
January 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Jae-Ryeong Choi, a visiting student in our group that graduated from SNU. Dr. Choi will be joining our group as a postdoc!
September 2024: Our perspective paper on personalizing assistive devices was published in Nature!
August 2024: Congratulations to Chelsey Campillo Rodriguez for being a finalist for the best abstract at the American Society of Biomechanics Conference! Three abstracts were selected out of the ~700 at the conference.
April 2024: Congratulations to the newly admitted students to our group, Raymond Liu and Tara Kimiavi, for being awarded NSF GRFP fellowships!
August 2023: Our lab officially opened at Harvard with our first PhD students, Jordan Feldman and Dominic Locurto.
October 2022: Exoskeleton paper published in Nature! Read our paper on how personalizing a portable exoskeleton can save energy and increase walking speed for people walking around in the real world.