Ximing Wang

A desktop-scale mobile manipulation engineering series covering end-effectors, arm platforms, and wheeled bases. Structural design, system integration, MuJoCo simulation, and ROS2 interfaces form an iterative CAD → prototype → validation engineering loop.

A modular closed-loop prototype that encapsulates, monitors, and regulates plant cells—testing oxygen generation and organic storage under high-disturbance / non-ideal conditions.

A time-based kinetic breathing loop that turns a paper-to-oxygen conversion (≈25.5g O₂ per A4 sheet) into a visible compression of breathing space—print → pump → deflate—so ecological cost becomes felt as a slow, continuous withdrawal.

A metaphorical kinetic sculpture: inside a closed stage, a robotic arm endlessly writes “I am the best.” Surrounded by a certificate wall, a cage boundary, and suspended threads/blades, a simple statement is stretched into a continuously running mechanism of self-affirmation under observation.

Field-based behavior research in public space: scripted actions and face-to-face imitation experiments documented on video, observing how a single gesture is reinterpreted by context and by others—then mutates through repetition into drift, misreading, and cascading change.

An environmental action and site-built ritual: I collect everyday plastic water bottles and return them to the city’s edge. Through digging, placement, and burial, the work stages a funeral-like processing—where waste remains abruptly present inside nature rather than disappearing.