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SUMMARY:Addressing Soft robot challenges with Robogamis
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DESCRIPTION:Jamie Paik\nBio: Jamie Paik is an Assistant Professor and a me
 mber of Swiss NCCR robotics group. She is founder of the Reconfigurable Ro
 botics Laboratory at EPFL\, which leverages expertise in multi-material fa
 brication and smart material actuation. She received her PhD in Seoul Nati
 onal University on designing humanoid arm and a hand. During her Postdocto
 ral positions in ISIR (Institut des Systems Intelligents et de Robotic) in
  Universitat Pierre Marie Curie\, Paris VI\, she developed laparoscopic to
 ols that are internationally patented. At Harvard University’s Microrobo
 tics Laboratory\, she started developing unconventional robots that push t
 he physical limits of material and mechanisms. Her latest research effort 
 is in self-morphing Robogami (robotic orgami) that transforms its planar s
 hape to 2D or 3D by folding in predefined patterns and sequences\, just li
 ke the paper art\, origami.\nToday\, the mobility and manipulation capabil
 ities of robots are tightly coupled to the hardware of the system. Since r
 obot architectures are fixed and difficult to modify\, both physical and f
 unctional capabilities of each robot are limited by its physical architect
 ure. Robotic Origamis (Robogamis) are an innovation in the development pro
 cesses for creating robots: we approach fabricating robots in a 2D process
  instead of traditional 3D parts with lengthy assembly time.\nThe main Rob
 ogami challenge lies in novel actuators\, fabrications and designs that co
 nform to the distinctive shapes of robot. Unconventional “robot” mater
 ials that embed joints\, sensing\, actuation\, computation\, and connector
 s need to be developed to fabricate the Robogamis. New planning and contro
 l algorithms are needed to enable the self-assembly of a 3D robot with spe
 cified functionality from a 2D structure. The functional robot requires st
 ructural integrity and strength to achieve the task.\nIn this talk\, I wil
 l address the specific challenges involved with the building of Robogamis 
 and Reconfigurable Robotics Lab’s research goal to provide robust soluti
 ons to meet the technological and integration challenges needed to demonst
 rate a capable\, fully functional\, end-to-end Robogami system that starts
  with specifications and delivers a functional robot.
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