Adding Soft to Robotics: From Gecko-inspired Wall-climbing to Vine-inspired Navigation

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English - October 31, 2019 21:00 - 27 minutes - 288 MB Video - ★★★★ - 7 ratings
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Elliot Hawkes’s research focuses on bringing together design, mechanics, and non-traditional materials to advance the vision of robust, adaptable, human-safe robots that can thrive in the uncertain, unstructured world. He shows two projects; gecko-inspired adhesives to make a climbing robot and vine-inspired robots to navigate in cluttered environments. Series: "GRIT Talks" [Show ID: 35267]