At MIT, Sharmi Shah combined her interest in mechanical engineering with a passion for robotics with Course 2-A/6, a customizable degree path that combines mechanical engineering with computer science and electrical engineering.
The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System, or WORMS, is a reconfigurable, modular, multiagent robotics architecture for extreme lunar terrain mobility developed by MIT’s Space Resources Workshop for NASA’s 2022 BIG Idea Challenge. The system could be used to assemble autonomous worm-like parts into larger biomimetic robots that could explore lava tubes, steep slopes, and the moon’s permanently shadowed regions.