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SUMMARY:Recipes for soft robotic artificial organisms
DTSTART:20171003T110000
DTEND:20171003T120000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jonathan Rossiter\nInstitute of Microengineering - Disti
 nguished Lecture\n\nAbstract: Soft robotics has the potential to replicate
  the sophisticated movements and behaviours of biological organisms and ul
 timately to generate a new paradigm of soft robotic organisms. To achieve 
 this goal we must combine research in smart materials\, actuation\, sensin
 g\, energy storage\, behaviour and multi-agent collaboration\, to name but
  a few.  In this talk we will examine the key components of a soft roboti
 c organism\, delve into potential uses and review the work we\, and others
 \, have undertaken to achieve truly autonomous soft robotic organisms.  T
 hese include soft material actuation\, metabolic replication\, death and d
 egradation and environmental costs and benefits.  We will highlight the R
 owBot\, a self-sufficient environmentally-interactive robot able to eat an
 d metabolise pollution and an important precursor to artificial organisms.
   We will ultimately touch on what a new species of soft robotic artifici
 al organism could mean for us and the planet.\n\nBio: Prof Rossiter is Pro
 fessor of Robotics at Bristol Robotics Laboratory and University of Bristo
 l\, EPSRC Research Fellow and head of the Soft Robotics Group.  Previousl
 y he was Royal Society research fellow.  He has published over 140 papers
  on soft robotics and leads major projects on implantable soft robotics\, 
 wearable soft assist devices\, and biodegradable robotic organisms.  His 
 research covers the spectrum of soft robotics development from smart mater
 ials and mechanisms to mathematical modelling of nonlinear behaviours and 
 the fabrication of complete soft robotic machines.\n 
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