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SUMMARY:MechE Inaugural Lecture: Improving Robot Design: Data-Driven Appro
 aches to Design & Fabrication
DTSTART:20220329T111500
DTEND:20220329T120000
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Josie Hughes\, Computational Robot Design & Fabrication 
 Lab (CREATE-LAB)\, Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IGM)\, School of E
 ngineering (STI)\, EPFL\nFace masks are recommended for in-person attendan
 ce in MED 0 1418.\n\nAbstract: Automating the design and creation of compl
 ex robots is challenging due to the complexity of the design search space 
 and physical processes required. To address this\, data-driven approaches 
 are required to understand how to design and optimize robotic structures f
 or a given task. This talk introduces a number of techniques and processes
  for the design of robots\, focusing on automated design\, rapid fabricati
 on\, and task-specific learning. This includes approaches ranging from bio
 logically inspired design\, to developing terrain optimized robots by sear
 ching over 10\,000s of possible designs\, and exploiting simulation and mo
 delling. Different application scenarios for these approaches are also pre
 sented. This includes robots for agriculture\, soft swimming robots and al
 so sensorized manipulators. The talk concludes with a vision for the futur
 e in which bespoke robots can be automatically created for a given task.\n
 \nBio: Josie Hughes recently started as an Assistant Professor at EPFL in 
 the Institute for Mechanical Engineering where she leads the CREATE Lab. T
 he lab focuses on developing new methods and approaches for designing robo
 tic technologies for applications ranging from agriculture\, soft robotics
  and manipulation. Prior to EPFL she previously worked as a Post-Doctoral 
 Research Associate in the Distributed Robotics Lab\, MIT\, working on comp
 utational design methods\, wearable technologies and new novel robot fabri
 cation methods. This followed her undergraduate and PhD studies at the Uni
 versity of Cambridge.\n\n\nRegister here.
LOCATION:MED 0 1418 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418 https://epf
 l.zoom.us/j/67275071152
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