ECE Seminar - Bioinspired Robots: Building Embodied Intelligence
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This talk will explore a number of approaches to designing and fabricating robots that can robustly interact with the environment through embodied intelligence. This involves developing and exploiting materials, structure and sensory-motor control, to provide robots with advantageous capabilities. These approaches stem from bio-inspiration and biomimicry but also exploring computational approaches to design. The applications and new capabilities enabled by these robots will be discussed, with a focus on sustainability and agricultural applications.
Josie Hughes is an Assistant Professor at EPFL where she established the CREATE Lab in 2021. She undertook her undergraduate, masters and PhD studies at the University of Cambridge, joining the Bio-inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL). Following this, she worked as a postdoctoral associate at the CSAIL, MIT in the Distributed Robotics Lab. Her research focuses on developing novel design paradigms for designing robot structures that exploit their physicality and interactions with the environment. This includes the development of robotic hands, soft manipulators and locomoting robots, and automation systems for applications focused on sustainability and science.