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SUMMARY:Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale - Prof Dr Me
 tin Sitti\, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems\, Stuttgart\, Ger
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CONTACT:Rachel Fogg
DESCRIPTION:Intelligence of physical agents\, such as robots\, is not only
  enabled by their computational intelligence in their brain\, but also by 
 their physical intelligence encoded in their body. This presentation repor
 ts the latest bioinspired and abstract physical intelligence methods desig
 ned and implemented in small-scale robots from insect scale down to cell s
 ize. Light-powered phototactic and bacteria-driven chemo/magnetotactic mic
 roswimmers are presented at the cell-size scale towards medical applicatio
 ns inside the human body. At the milliscale\, bioinspired soft-bodied robo
 ts with shape and stiffness programming capability\, multimodal locomotion
 \, physical adaptation in confined spaces\, and multifunctionality are pre
 sented. Liquid crystal elastomer and other stimuli-responsive materials ar
 e integrated with magneto-elastic composites towards self-sensing and self
 -adapting millirobots. Finally\, mechanical computing systems using bistab
 le metastructures are proposed to encode physical computing in milliscale 
 machines.\n\nBio:\nMetin Sitti is the Director of the Physical Intelligenc
 e Department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart\
 , Germany. He is also a Professor at ETH Zurich\, Switzerland and Koç Uni
 versity\, Turkey as side appointments\, and he was a Professor at Carnegie
  Mellon University (2002-2014) and a research scientist at UC Berkeley (19
 99-2002) in USA before moving to Europa. He received his BSc (1992) and MS
 c (1994) degrees from Boğaziçi University\, Turkey\, and PhD degree from
  University of Tokyo\, Japan (1999). His research interests include small-
 scale mobile robotics\, bio-inspiration\, wireless medical devices\, and p
 hysical intelligence. He is an IEEE Fellow. He received the Highly Cited R
 esearcher recognition (2021\, 2022)\, Breakthrough of the Year Award in th
 e Falling Walls World Science Summit (2020)\, ERC Advanced Grant (2019)\, 
 Rahmi Koç Science Medal (2018)\, SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award (2011
 )\, and NSF CAREER Award (2005). He received over 15 best paper and video 
 awards at major conferences. He has supervised and mentored over 70 (26 cu
 rrent) PhD students and 68 (15 current) postdocs\, where over 50 of his gr
 oup alumni are professors around the world. He is the editor-in-chief of P
 rogress in Biomedical Engineering and Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics and as
 sociate editor in Science Advances and Extreme Mechanics Letters journals
LOCATION:Department of Engineering - LT2
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