About the Workshop
The role of soft, adaptive matter in Robotics is intensively growing with the increasing demand for compliant, intelligent, and collaborative robotic behavior. The development of intelligent material systems combining actuation, sensing, and computation has become one of the grand challenges for realizing this vision of next-generation soft robotics. Material intelligence, the concept of material-level acquisition and application of knowledge and skills, embodies a critical synergy of sensing, actuation, and computation with the potential to redefine our expectations of material behavior. However, this idea's advancement faces several challenges due to the technical breadth, complex implementation, and conceptual paradigm shift of material behavior it requires. In addition, physical integration of these capabilities and concepts is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring input and the development of a common language across numerous disciplines, including Materials Science, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Architecture, and others. The present workshop aims to host "under one roof" the leading researchers in the fields of soft-material actuation, sensing, and computation to create a dialogue on state of the art, identify technical/conceptual barriers, and outline key challenges and opportunities for Material Intelligence.
Organizers
Aslan Miriyev
Empa,
Imperial College London
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Philip Buskohl
AFRL
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Robert Shepherd
Cornell University
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Mirko Kovac
Empa,
Imperial College London
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Program
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About the Workshop
The role of soft, adaptive matter in Robotics is intensively growing with the increasing demand for compliant, intelligent, and collaborative robotic behavior. The development of intelligent material systems combining actuation, sensing, and computation has become one of the grand challenges for realizing this vision of next-generation soft robotics. Material intelligence, the concept of material-level acquisition and application of knowledge and skills, embodies a critical synergy of sensing, actuation, and computation with the potential to redefine our expectations of material behavior. However, this idea's advancement faces several challenges due to the technical breadth, complex implementation, and conceptual paradigm shift of material behavior it requires. In addition, physical integration of these capabilities and concepts is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring input and the development of a common language across numerous disciplines, including Materials Science, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Architecture, and others. The present workshop aims to host "under one roof" the leading researchers in the fields of soft-material actuation, sensing, and computation to create a dialogue on state of the art, identify technical/conceptual barriers, and outline key challenges and opportunities for Material Intelligence.
Organizers
Aslan Miriyev
Empa,
Imperial College London
read more
Philip Buskohl
AFRL
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Robert Shepherd
Cornell University
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Mirko Kovac
Empa,
Imperial College London
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Program
09:00
Welcome
09:00 - 10:30
Panel I: Intersection of Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and Bio-inspiration
Metin Sitti
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
10:30 - 11:00
Networking break
11:00 - 12:30
Panel I: Computation and Control
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About the Workshop
The role of soft, adaptive matter in Robotics is intensively growing with the increasing demand for compliant, intelligent, and collaborative robotic behavior. The development of intelligent material systems combining actuation, sensing, and computation has become one of the grand challenges for realizing this vision of next-generation soft robotics. Material intelligence, the concept of material-level acquisition and application of knowledge and skills, embodies a critical synergy of sensing, actuation, and computation with the potential to redefine our expectations of material behavior. However, this idea's advancement faces several challenges due to the technical breadth, complex implementation, and conceptual paradigm shift of material behavior it requires. In addition, physical integration of these capabilities and concepts is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring input and the development of a common language across numerous disciplines, including Materials Science, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Architecture, and others. The present workshop aims to host "under one roof" the leading researchers in the fields of soft-material actuation, sensing, and computation to create a dialogue on state of the art, identify technical/conceptual barriers, and outline key challenges and opportunities for Material Intelligence.
Organizers
Aslan Miriyev
Empa,
Imperial College London
read more
Philip Buskohl
AFRL
read more
Robert Shepherd
Cornell University
read more
Mirko Kovac
Empa,
Imperial College London
read more
Program
09:00
Welcome
09:00 - 10:30
Panel I: Intersection of Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and Bio-inspiration
Metin Sitti
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
10:30 - 11:00
Networking break
11:00 - 12:30
Panel II: Computation and Control
Helmut Hauser
University of Bristol
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
11:00 - 12:30
Panel II: Computation and Control
RSVP
Please RSVP here! All the RSVP'd participants will get updates on the Workshop directly to their emails in real-time.
Important Links
Here we will publish the links to the online workshop and chat. RSVP and stay tuned!
Contact us
About the Workshop
The role of soft, adaptive matter in Robotics is intensively growing with the increasing demand for compliant, intelligent, and collaborative robotic behavior. The development of intelligent material systems combining actuation, sensing, and computation has become one of the grand challenges for realizing this vision of next-generation soft robotics. Material intelligence, the concept of material-level acquisition and application of knowledge and skills, embodies a critical synergy of sensing, actuation, and computation with the potential to redefine our expectations of material behavior. However, this idea's advancement faces several challenges due to the technical breadth, complex implementation, and conceptual paradigm shift of material behavior it requires. In addition, physical integration of these capabilities and concepts is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring input and the development of a common language across numerous disciplines, including Materials Science, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Architecture, and others. The present workshop aims to host "under one roof" the leading researchers in the fields of soft-material actuation, sensing, and computation to create a dialogue on state of the art, identify technical/conceptual barriers, and outline key challenges and opportunities for Material Intelligence.
Organizers
Aslan Miriyev
Empa,
Imperial College London
Philip Buskohl
AFRL
Robert Shepherd
Cornell University
Mirko Kovac
Empa,
Imperial College London
Program
09:00
Welcome
09:00 - 10:30
Panel I: Intersection of Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and Bio-inspiration
Metin Sitti
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Barbara Mazzolai
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Michael Tolley
University of California San Diego
10:30 - 11:00
Networking break
11:00 - 12:30
Panel II: Computation and Control
Helmut Hauser
University of Bristol
Nikolaus Correll
University of Colorado at Boulder
Kohei Nakajima
University of Tokyo
Jiangying Zhou
DARPA
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00
Panel III: Sensing, Actuation and Interfaces
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
Yale University
Nikolaus Correll
University of Edinburgh
Jamie Paik
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Carmel Majidi
Cornell University
15:00
Concluding remarks
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Important Links
Here we will publish the links to the online workshop and chat. RSVP and stay tuned!