Sarah Bergbreiter
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
Sarah Bergbreiter completed her Ph.D. in electrical engineering at UC, Berkeley in Spring,
2007. Her Ph.D. research was on the design and fabrication of autonomous jumping
micro-robots.
Her interests lie engineering a new class of networked centimeter and millimeter sized
mobile robots, including autonomous mobile microrobots (espically jumping, climbing and
crawling), networked centimeter-sized robots, high-force, large-displacement, low-power
actuators, low-power MEMS sensors, millimeter-sized power sources and microfabrication
techniques.