報(bào)告題目：Soft Robotics for Controlled Interaction with the World
報(bào)告時(shí)間：2018年11月21日（周三）13:00點(diǎn)（下午）
報(bào)告地點(diǎn)：北航新主樓B506
邀請人：Mark R. Cutkosky教授
主持人：丁希侖教授
報(bào)告人簡介：
Mark R. Cutkosky
Mark R. Cutkosky is theFletcher Jones Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at StanfordUniversity. Cutkosky's research activities include robotic manipulation andtactile sensing and the design and fabrication of biologically inspired robots.He consults with companies on robotics and human/computer interaction devices.His work has been featured in Discover Magazine, The New York Times, NationalGeographic, Time Magazine and other publications and has appeared on PBS NOVA,CBS Evening News, and other popular media. Cutkosky’s awards include aFulbright Faculty Chair (Italy 2002), Fletcher Jones and Charles M. PigottChairs at Stanford University, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award andTimes Magazine Best Innovations (2006) for the Stickybot gecko-inspired robot.
Cutkosky’s laboratory and research can be found athttp://bdml.stanford.edu
報(bào)告摘要：
As robots move beyond manufacturing applications to lesspredictable environments, they increasingly can benefit, as animals do, fromintegrating sensing and control with the passive properties provided byparticular combinations and arrangements of materials and mechanisms. Thisrealization is partly responsible for the recent proliferation of soft andbioinspired robots. However, many structures and mechanisms in nature are notuniformly soft. This talk will explore these interrelated concepts using examplesfrom several bioinspired mobile robots that exploit selectively soft materialsand structures when interacting with objects and surfaces in the environment.
