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SUMMARY:Soft Robotics and AI are driving a Revolution in A
 griculture - Professor Fumiya Iida\, Cambridge Uni
 versity 
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/169220
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Professor Fumiya Iida will introduc
 e some of the research projects in his laboratory 
 in Cambridge that make use of soft robotics and ma
 chine learning techniques\, for addressing the com
 plex problems in robotic applications such as thos
 e in agriculture. Soft robotics research has made 
 considerable progress in many areas of robotics te
 chnologies based on deformable functional material
 s\, including locomotion\, manipulation\, and othe
 r morphological adaptation such as self-healing\, 
 self-morphing\, and mechanical growth. While these
  technologies open up many new robotics applicatio
 ns\, they also introduce a number of challenging p
 roblems in terms of sensing\, modelling\, planning
  and control. Because of the general complexity of
  the system based on flexible and continuum mechan
 ics and a wide range of system-environment interac
 tions\, the conventional methods are often not app
 licable\, and new approaches are necessary based o
 n state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.\n\
 nFumiya Iida is a Professor of Robotics at the Dep
 artment of Engineering\, University of Cambridge\,
  the director of Bio-Inspired Robotics\, and the d
 eputy director of the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Tra
 ining in Agri-Food Robotics. He has a master's deg
 ree in Mechanical Engineering from Tokyo Universit
 y of Science and a doctorate in Informatics from t
 he University of Zurich. His research interests in
 clude biologically inspired robotics\, embodied ar
 tificial intelligence\, and biomechanics\, where h
 e's been involved in a number of research projects
  related to dynamic legged locomotion\, dextrous a
 nd adaptive manipulation\, human-machine interacti
 ons\, and evolutionary robotics.
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