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SUMMARY:Progress on insect-inspired robots
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Robert Wood\, Microrobotics Lab\, Harvard\nBio: Robert W
 ood is the Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 
 Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a founding core f
 aculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
  Prof. Wood completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Dept. of Electrica
 l Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California\, Berk
 eley. He is founder of the Harvard Microrobotics Lab which leverages exper
 tise in microfabrication for the development of biologically-inspired robo
 ts with feature sizes on the micrometer to centimeter scale. His current r
 esearch interests include new micro- and meso-scale manufacturing techniqu
 es\, fluid mechanics of low Reynolds number flapping wings\, control of se
 nsor-limited and computation-limited systems\, active soft materials\, and
  morphable soft-bodied robots. He is the winner of multiple awards for his
  work including the DARPA Young Faculty Award\, NSF Career Award\, ONR You
 ng Investigator Award\, Air Force Young Investigator Award\, Technology Re
 view's TR35\, and multiple best paper awards. In 2010 Wood received the Pr
 esidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President 
 Obama for his work in microrobotics. In 2012 he was selected for the Alan 
 T. Waterman award\, the National Science Foundation's most prestigious ear
 ly career award. Wood is leading the NSF-sponsored Expeditions in Computin
 g "RoboBees" project that has the goal of developing a colony of autonomou
 s robotic bees. Wood's group is also dedicated to STEM education by using 
 novel robots to motivate young students to pursue careers in science and e
 ngineering.\nAs the characteristic size of a flying robot decreases\, the 
 challenges for successful flight revert to basic questions of fabrication\
 , actuation\, fluid mechanics\, stabilization\, and power - whereas such q
 uestions have in general been answered for larger aircraft. When developin
 g a flying robot on the scale of a common housefly\, all hardware must be 
 developed from scratch as there is nothing "off-the-shelf" which can be us
 ed for mechanisms\, sensors\, or computation that would satisfy the extrem
 e mass and power limitations. This talk will describe progress on aerial a
 nd terrestrial robots inspired by insects. If time permits\, I will also d
 iscuss related work at Harvard on soft robots and printable robots.
LOCATION:BM 5202 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BM%205202
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