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SUMMARY:Designing emergent behaviours of (soft) robots - Fumiya Iida\, Bio
 -Inspired Robotics Lab\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20180301T140000Z
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CONTACT:Alberto Padoan
DESCRIPTION:Tasks that are difficult for humans are comparatively easy for
  robots\, but those easy for humans are difficult or impossible for robots
 . This is the so-called Moravec’s paradox which was originally stated a 
 few decades ago\, but robotics today didn’t make much progress since the
 n. It’s easier to build robots that can fly to Mars autonomously but pro
 bably impossible to build a robot that can pick keys out of a tight pocket
 . The problems of latter kinds are often not well defined in terms of stat
 e-action space\, and thus we need some forms of “emergence” in the beh
 aviours. We have been exploring how such robots can be designed and contro
 lled by exploiting embodied intelligence of soft deformable robots\, which
  I would like to discuss in this seminar.
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Room number
  LR12
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