报告题目：Soft Robotics for Controlled Interaction with the World

报告时间：2018年11月21日（周三）13:00点（下午）

报告地点：88038威尼斯新主楼B506

邀请人：Mark R. Cutkosky教授

主持人：丁希仑教授

报告人简介：

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

报告摘要：

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.