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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > CUED Control Group Seminars > Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations
Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid InnovationsAdd to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Fulvio Forni. Living robots represent a new frontier in engineering materials for robotic systems, incorporating biological living cells and synthetic materials into their design. These bio-hybrid robots are dynamic and intelligent, potentially harnessing living matter’s capabilities, such as growth, regeneration, morphing, biodegradation, and environmental adaptation. Such attributes position bio-hybrid devices as a transformative force in robotics development, promising enhanced dexterity, adaptive behaviors, sustainable production, robust performance, and environmental stewardship. Nature’s musculoskeletal design can act as an inspiration for both artificial and living robots. We will explore recent advances in artificial electrohydraulic musculoskeletal robots, which employ electrohydraulic actuators to produce lifelike muscle contractions and adaptive motions, as demonstrated in our recent work published in Nature Communications. We will also dive deeper into our breakthroughs in vision-controlled inkjet printing for robotics from our Nature paper last year. We will then touch on xolographic biofabrication techniques, which enabled our biohybrid swimmers shown at RoboSoft. Additionally, we will discuss the computational optimization of musculoskeletal systems through approaches presented in our recent work published at Humanoids. Together, these projects showcase how musculoskeletal, bio-hybrid, and computational techniques are opening new frontiers in robotics interaction and manipulation. The seminar will be held in the LR3A , Department of Engineering, and online (zoom): https://newnham.zoom.us/j/92544958528?pwd=YS9PcGRnbXBOcStBdStNb3E0SHN1UT09 This talk is part of the CUED Control Group Seminars series. This talk is included in these lists:
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