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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Design\, Fabrication\, and Control of Biological
 ly Inspired Soft Robots
DTSTART:20180925T121500
DTEND:20180925T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Michael T. Tolley\, Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab\
 , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\, University of Calif
 ornia\nAbstract:\nRobotics has the potential to address many of today’s 
 pressing problems in fields ranging from healthcare to manufacturing to di
 saster relief. However\, the traditional approaches used on the factory fl
 oor do not perform well in unstructured environments. The key to solving m
 any of these challenges is to explore new\, non-traditional designs. Fortu
 nately\, nature surrounds us with examples of novel ways to navigate and i
 nteract with the real world. Dr. Tolley’s Bioinspired Robotics and Desig
 n Lab seeks to borrow the key principles of operation from biological syst
 ems and apply them to robotic design. This talk will give an overview of p
 rojects in the lab demonstrating approaches to the design\, fabrication\, 
 and control of soft robotic systems. These projects seek to develop bioins
 pired systems capable of navigating the world by walking\, digging\, and s
 wimming\, of interacting directly with humans and delicate objects\, and o
 f self-assembly by folding.\n\nBio:\nMichael T. Tolley is Assistant Profes
 sor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\, and director of the Bioinspi
 red Robotics and Design Lab at the Jacobs School of Engineering\, UC San D
 iego (bioinspired.eng.ucsd.edu). Before joining the mechanical engineering
  faculty at UCSD in the fall of 2014\, he was a postdoctoral fellow and re
 search associate at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineeri
 ng and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences\, Harvard University
 . He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering with a 
 minor in computer science from Cornell University in 2009 and 2011\, respe
 ctively. He received the B. Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from McG
 ill University in Montreal in 2005. His research interests include biologi
 cally inspired robotics and design\, origami-inspired fabrication\, self-a
 ssembly\, and soft robotics. His work has appeared in leading academic jou
 rnals including Science and Nature\, and has been recognized by awards inc
 luding a US Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award and 
 a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award.
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