Portfolio — General Arrangement
Ashley Margetts
Mechanical engineer (M.S., MIT ’26) working in precision machine design, compliant mechanisms, and robotic systems. I like solving tough problems & building things.
Featured WorkItems 1–9
1Flexure Design for Muscle Tissue MeasurementMy MS thesis: a variable-stiffness flexure with custom electrolessly plated strain gauges for measuring the contraction force of engineered muscle tissue.2CNC LatheDesign & Manufacturing of a CNC lathe with 50-micron repeatability. 3Compliant Egg GripperModeled & Design a gripper that could pick up an egg without cracking it. 4Nami - Automated Water Bottle CleanerDesigned, manufactured, and presented a product (Nami) that automates water-bottle cleaning. 5Bottle BotRobot that flips tennis bottles6Crutch BotRobot that walks like how humans walk on crutches7"Rescue Robots" Final Project DesignDesigned Student Final Project as TA for 2.12 (Intro to Robotics)8E-WizWearable Multimeter9Arcturus AllSeaingVehicleSensors lead for MIT's autonomous robotics competition team (Arcturus)
