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SUMMARY:CIS - "Get to know your neighbors" Seminar series - Prof. Josie Hu
 ghes
DTSTART:20220502T151500
DTEND:20220502T161500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Josie Hughes\nTitle: Improving Robot Design: Data-Driven
  Approaches to Design & Fabrication\n\nAbstract: Automating the design and
  creation of complex robots is challenging due to the complexity of the de
 sign search space and physical processes required.  To address this\, dat
 a-driven approaches are required to understand how to design and optimize 
 robotic structures for a given task.  This talk introduces a number of te
 chniques and processes for the design of robots\, focusing on automated de
 sign\, rapid fabrication\, and task-specific learning.  This includes app
 roaches ranging from biologically inspired design\, to developing terrain 
 optimized robots by searching over 10\,000s of possible designs\, and expl
 oiting simulation and modelling.  Different application scenarios for the
 se approaches are also presented. This includes robots for agriculture\, s
 oft swimming robots and also sensorized manipulators. The talk concludes w
 ith a vision for the future in which bespoke robots can be automatically c
 reated for a given task.\n\nBio: Josie Hughes recently started as an Assis
 tant Professor at EPFL in the Institute for Mechanical Engineering where s
 he leads the CREATE Lab.  The lab focuses on developing new methods and a
 pproaches for designing robotic technologies for applications ranging from
  agriculture\, soft robotics and manipulation.  Prior to EPFL she previou
 sly worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Distributed Roboti
 cs Lab\, MIT\, working on computational design methods\, wearable technolo
 gies and new novel robot fabrication methods.   This followed her underg
 raduate and PhD studies at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\nThe Center fo
 r Intelligent Systems at EPFL (CIS) is a collaboration among IC\, ENAC\, S
 B\; SV and STI that brings together researchers working on different aspec
 ts of Intelligent Systems.\nIn order to promote exchanges among researcher
 s and encourage the creation of new\, collaborative projects\, CIS is orga
 nizing a "Get to know your neighbors" series. Each seminar will consist of
  one short overview presentation geared to the general public at EPFL.  
  \n\nThe CIS seminar will take place In hybrid mode: Room INF 328 and by 
 Zoom: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61206635440  \n\nPlease connect to your zoom
  account using your "@epfl.ch" address\, as this live event is only open t
 o the EPFL community\nMonday\, May 2nd\, 2022 from 3:15 to 4:15 pm\nNB: Vi
 deo recordings of the seminars will be made available on our website and p
 ublished on our social media pages
LOCATION:INF 328 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==INF%20328 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/61206635440
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