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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Creation and Control of Soft Robots Tackling Man
 ipulation and Locomotion Challenges
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Robert Katzschmann\, Department of Mechanical and Proces
 s Engineering\, ETHZ\nAbstract:\nSoft robotics focuses on the deformable a
 nd non-rigid character of our world. Soft robots made of deformable materi
 als surpass the limited degrees of freedom of rigid robots and therefore 
 potentially offer adaptable and inherently safe ways of achieving versati
 le forms in locomotion and manipulation. Soft robots can homogeneously com
 bine actuation\, sensing\, and structural complexity within the same compo
 nent. Two core challenges must be overcome to achieve capable soft robot
 s: First\, reproducibly construct their body with fully integrated actuati
 on and sensing. Second\, develop robotic “brains” to fully understand 
 and exploit the unique properties of soft robots and the deformable world 
 we life in. In this talk\, I will dive deeper into my lab’s recent devel
 opments in overcoming some of the challenges in the creation\, modeling\, 
 and control of soft robotic systems.\n\nBio:\nRobert Katzschmann is an Ass
 istant Professor of Robotics at ETH Zurich. Robert earned his Diplom-Ingen
 ieur in 2013 from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and his Ph.D
 . in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 from the Computer Science and Artific
 ial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT in 2018. Robert worked on robotic mani
 pulation technologies as Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics and as CTO a
 t Dexai Robotics. In July 2020\, Robert founded the Soft Robotics Lab at 
 ETH Zurich to push robots' abilities for real-life applications by being m
 ore compliant and better adapt to their environment to solve challenging r
 obotics tasks. His group develops soft robots whose compliant properties 
 resemble living organisms and advances modeling\, control\, and learning t
 echniques tailored to the needs of soft robots. His work has appeared in l
 eading academic journals\, including Science Robotics\, and has been feat
 ured in major news outlets\, including the New York Times. Robert is a mem
 ber of the ETH AI Center\, the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems 
 (CLS)\, and the ETH Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP). 
 Robert is an Area Chair for Robotics Science and Systems (RSS)\, a Guest E
 ditor for the International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR)\, and a re
 viewer for leading peer-reviewed journals\, including Science and Nature.
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 s/j/65093257313
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