Dr. Priya Sharma

Background

Priya began her career decoding the mechanical properties of bacterial flagella. A fellowship year spent embedded with MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory changed everything — she saw that the same physical principles governing microscopic motors could be engineered at human scale. She now leads a lab building bio-inspired soft robots for minimally invasive surgery.

The leap story

“I remember the moment it clicked. I was watching a flagellum rotate under the microscope and thinking: this is a rotary motor that self-assembles, self-repairs, and operates in a fluid environment. Nobody had built anything close to it in robotics. I decided I had to.”