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SUMMARY:Morphologically Computing Soft Robots toward Self-Organizing Machi
 nes - Dr Fumiya Iida - Department of Engineering\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20170503T151500Z
DTEND:20170503T161500Z
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CONTACT:David Greaves
DESCRIPTION:Self-organisation is one of the main design principles of biol
 ogical\nsystems. Starting from development of musculosekeletal systems\, a
 nd\nlearning of sensory and nervous stimuli\, to the formation of molecula
 r\nstructures from genetic information\, everything in biological systems\
 nis continuously changing over time and self-organising to maintain the\nl
 iving processes. In contrast\, conventional robotic systems are\ngenerally
  composed of rigid materials such as aluminium\, plastic and\nsilicon wafe
 r\, and robotics engineers always attempt to minimize the\ndeformation and
  changes of physical morphologies of the systems. In\nthis seminar\, I wil
 l discuss the role of physical soft body\ndeformation\, and more generally
  embodiment\, in the context of building\nphysically intelligent adaptive 
 systems\, by introducing some initial\nwork showing how they can be techno
 logically achieved.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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