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MSE Grace Hopper Lecture: “Bioelectronics to Probe Brain-Body Physiology” (Polina Anikeeva – Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBiological signaling in the mammalian nervous system spans a dizzying range of spatial and temporal scales. To understand how cellular and molecular signals contribute to physiology and behavior and to […]
MEAM Seminar: “Modeling the Unique Behaviors of Liquid Crystal Elastomers”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesLiquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) exhibit complex thermomechanical behaviors that can be harnessed for a wide variety of applications in soft robotics, biomedical devices, and impact protection. The material comprises stiff […]
ASSET Seminar: Edgar Dobriban (University of Pennsylvania)
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United StatesMEAM Seminar: “Robots that Evolve on Demand”
Wu & Chen AuditoriumSoft robots have the potential to adapt their morphologies and behavioral control policies to changing tasks and environments. Inspired by the dynamic plasticity of living organisms and the general adaptability […]
ASSET Seminar: Yao Fu (University of Edinburgh)
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United StatesHerman P. Schwan Distinguished Lecture: “Engineering Proteins, Genomes, Viruses & Organs” (George Church, Harvard & MIT)
ZoomOur exponential technologies for reading, writing genomes and epigenomes combined with AI-ML has enabled large libraries and selections for radical new functions — e.g. resistance to all viruses, novel delivery […]
Spring 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Ming C. Lin, University of Maryland at College Park, “Dynamics-Aware Learning: from Simulated Reality to Physical World”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT In this talk, we present an overview of some of our recent […]
MEAM Seminar: “Flow Architectures, From Capillary Networks to Blood Transport through Organs”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesFlow systems in nature, whether animate or inanimate, have evolved in time toward greater efficiency by adapting, or ‘morphing’, their configuration to decrease resistance to the currents flowing through them. […]
Spring 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Jan Peters, Technische Universität Darmstadt & German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, “Inductive Biases for Robot Reinforcement Learning”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Autonomous robots that can assist humans in situations of daily life have […]