Physical Intelligence
IS Colloquium
Katia Bertoldi
09-01-2020
Kirigami-Inspired Metamaterials - from Morphable Structures to Soft Robots
In the search for materials with new properties, there have been great advances in recent years aimed at the construction of mechanical systems whose behaviour is governed by structure, rather than composition. Through careful design of the material’s architecture, new material properties have been demonstrated, including negative Poisson’s ratio, high stiffness-to-weight ratio and mechanical cloaking. While originally the field focused on achieving unusual (zero or negative) values for familiar mechanical parameters, more recently it has been shown that non-linearities can be exploited to ...
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Physical Intelligence
IS Colloquium
Dr. Yiğit Mengüç
30-04-2018
Material Robotics – How new soft composites, mechanisms, and manufacturing techniques make robots better.
Incredible biological capabilities have emerged through evolution. Of special note is the material intelligence that defines the bodies of living things, blurring the line between brain and body. Material robotics research takes the approach of imbuing power, control, sensing, and actuation into all aspects of a (primarily soft) robot body. In this talk, the research topics of material robotics currently underway in the mLab at Oregon State University will be presented. Soft active materials designed and researched in the mLab include liquid metal, biodegradable elastomers, and electroactiv...
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