2019: April
Surendra Kumar and Abhishek Verma built an acoustic impedance tube per ISO standards in three months.
2020: January
Manan Agarwal presented on the importance of sound-absorbing materials and our acoustic-materials work to high school students, as part of the Science Open House, Diamond Jubilee celebrations of IIT Kanpur. He also did demonstrations in the lab.
2022: June
Swaraj Singh has built a long continuum soft robot. Here are his full demonstrations. Videos 1 and 2
2022: July
Work by Surendra Kumar et al. has been picked by the ACS editors for the ACS News. The work is also highlighted in the international and national science news: Phys.org, ScienceDaily, Technologynetworks, Eurekalert, Swifttelecast, Chemistryviews, New Atlas, ScienMag, Bioengineer.org, Miragenews, and Natureworld. It also attracted attention to the seaweed and music communities.
2022: November
Sidharth, Sohan, and Arnav have put together a Resonant Ultrasound Spectrometer, an instrument used to identify the 21 elastic constants of an anisotropic material
2023: September
I had given a webinar recently on the using COMSOL Multiphysics to determine the bandgaps and scattering in phononic crystals. The recording is available here.