Along the way.

Shane’s work on ALBATROSS is featured on Popular Science!

Shane’s research titled ‘ALBATROSS: A bio-inspired, aerially deployable, autonomous sailing sensor platform’ is published in Science Robotics! Read it here!

Shane receives Research Quality Award from Temasek Labs @ SUTD for excellence in research for 2025!

Shane’s co-authored research titled “QuadRotary: Design and Control of In-Flight Transition Between Quadcopter and Rotary-Wing” wins the ‘Best Paper Award’ for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 2025!

Shane served as Associate Editor for IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) 2026!

Shane receives Research Quality Award from Temasek Labs @ SUTD for excellence in research for 2024!

Shane’s co-authored research titled “Integration of CTA sensors for resultant velocity measurements in Monocopter” wins the ‘Best Conference Paper’ award at 2025 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)!

Shane and his co-authors win Best Poster Award at ICRA REaCT Workshop!

Shane’s team ‘airXeed’ wins Global Sustainability Winner 2024 for James Dyson Award, beating nearly 2000 innovative designs globally! The team’s winning entry airXeed Radiosonde gets featured on The Straits Times, Dezeen, Berita Harian, SpringWise, PR Newswire, The Manila Times, The Peak Magazine, TechEDT, Sin Chew Daily and so on. The team is also featured in radio interviews with Money 89.3FM and CNA 938!

Shane’s team ‘airXeed’ gets selected for Global Top 20 shortlist in the JDA 2024!

Shane and his team ‘airXeed’ wins James Dyson Award (National Runner-up) for their smart reuseable Radiosonde! Local newspaper Zaobao features their award here.

Shane receives Research Quality Award from Temasek Labs @ SUTD for excellence in research for 2023!

Shane’s co-authored research titled “Direct aerial visual localization using panoramic synthetic images and domain adaptation” wins the ‘Best Conference Paper Finalist’ at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) 2024!

Shane’s co-authored research titled “Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots” gets published in Science Robotics! Read it here!

Shane’s co-authored research titled “Design and Control of a Ground-Aerial Dual Actuator Monocopter” wins the ‘Best Student Paper Award’ at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) 2023!

Shane’s co-authored research titled ‘Cooperative Modular Single Actuator Monocopters capable of Controlled Passive Separation’ wins the ‘Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper Award’ at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022!

Shane’s research work on Foldable Single Actuator Monocopter (F-SAM) gets featured on Popular Science as article titled Watch this tiny spinning drone fly like a samara seed.

In the past week, it is also featured on several technology news sites in various countries including Drone DJ, Mashable, Nazology (Japan), Jiqizhixin (Chinese), 3D News (Russia), PortalTele (Ukraine), and DroneWatch (Netherlands).

Shane’s research work on Foldable Single Actuator Monocopter (F-SAM) gets featured on IEEE Spectrum as article titled Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up.

It is also featured on hackster.io as an article titled Seed-inspired monocopter drone folds up tiny for transit then flies autonomously with a single rotor.

Journal titled Design and control of the first foldable single-actuator rotary wing micro aerial vehicle goes online in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Latest Articles.

Journal titled ‘Design and control of the first foldable single-actuator rotary wing micro aerial vehicle’ gets formal acceptance to be published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.

Shane’s research work on diving Samara Autorotating Wing (dSAW) gets featured on Hackaday as article titled Helicopter seed robot can also drop like a rock.

Co-chairing Aerial Robots 1 session on IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2021.

Research journal on An Agile Samara-Inspired Single-Actuator Aerial Robot capable of Autorotation and Diving is published online on IEEE Transactions on Robotics in Early Access. Watch video.

PhD Thesis titled Design, Development and Control of Samara-inspired Autorotating Wings for Aerial Payload Deployment receives Design Practice Award in Best Thesis Award 2020, SUTD.

Research journal on Design, modelling and control of collaborative samara autorotating wings (SAW) gets awarded as Finalist, Best Paper Awards 2020 on International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications.

Shane’s research work on Samara Autorotating Wing (SAW) is featured on IEEE Spectrum as an article titled Watch this drone explode in to maple seed microdrones in midair.

The same work is also featured on hackster.io as an article titled Samara-inspired drone can break into smaller drones for increased travel distance.

Also on dronebelow as article titled Bio-inspired drone splits into five mini-drones mid-air.