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SUMMARY:IGM Colloquium: Design\, Fabrication\, and Control of Biologically
  Inspired Soft Robots
DTSTART:20180925T121500
DTEND:20180925T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Mike Tolley\, UC San Diego \, Department of Mechanical a
 nd Aerospace Engineering\nUniversity of California\, San Diego\nhttp://tol
 ley.eng.ucsd.edu/\nAbstract:\nRobotics has the potential to address many o
 f today’s pressing problems in fields ranging from healthcare to manufac
 turing to disaster relief. However\, the traditional approaches used on th
 e factory floor do not perform well in unstructured environments. The key 
 to solving many of these challenges is to explore new\, non-traditional de
 signs. Fortunately\, nature surrounds us with examples of novel ways to na
 vigate and interact with the real world. Dr. Tolley’s Bioinspired Roboti
 cs and Design Lab seeks to borrow the key principles of operation from bio
 logical systems and apply them to robotic design. This talk will give an o
 verview of projects in the lab demonstrating approaches to the design\, fa
 brication\, and control of soft robotic systems. These projects seek to de
 velop bioinspired systems capable of navigating the world by walking\, dig
 ging\, and swimming\, of interacting directly with humans and delicate obj
 ects\, and of self-assembly by folding.\n\nBio:\nMichael T. Tolley is Assi
 stant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\, and director of 
 the Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab at the Jacobs School of Engineerin
 g\, UC San Diego (bioinspired.eng.ucsd.edu). Before joining the mechanical
  engineering faculty at UCSD in the fall of 2014\, he was a postdoctoral f
 ellow and research associate at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspir
 ed Engineering and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, Harvar
 d University. He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in mechanical enginee
 ring with a minor in computer science from Cornell University in 2009 and 
 2011\, respectively. He received the B. Eng. degree in mechanical engineer
 ing from McGill University in Montreal in 2005. His research interests inc
 lude biologically inspired robotics and design\, origami-inspired fabricat
 ion\, self-assembly\, and soft robotics. His work has appeared in leading 
 academic journals including Science and Nature\, and has been recognized b
 y awards including a US Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Progra
 m award and a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
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