MEAM Seminar: “Robotics Goes Soft: Challenges and Achievements, for New Robotics Scenarios”
Largely inspired by the observation of the role of soft tissues in living organisms, the use of soft materials for building robots is recognized as one of the current challenges […]
MEAM Seminar: “Electrets, Magnetics and Deformation in Soft Materials”
Soft robotics, energy harvesting, large-deformation sensing and actuation, are just some of the applications that can be enabled by soft dielectrics that demonstrate substantive electromechanical coupling. Imagine now also a […]
MEAM Seminar: “Computational Mechanics for Landing on Mars”
Current technology for decelerating a spacecraft from the high speed of atmospheric entry to the final stages of landing on Mars is based on low-density supersonic decelerators such as low […]
MEAM Seminar: “Kirigami: Programming Cutting and Folding from Microscale to Meter Scale”
Programmable shape-shifting materials can take different physical forms to achieve multifunctionality in a dynamic and controllable manner. By introducing holes and cuts in 2D sheets, we demonstrate dramatic color and […]
MEAM Seminar: “Active Colloids in Nematics for Micro-robotics and Reconfigurable Systems”
Active colloids in nematic liquid crystals are exciting vehicles for materials manipulation. Colloid shape, surface chemistry and dynamic displacement can be designed to introduce defects whose non-linear dynamics generate new […]
Technology, Business and Government Lecture: Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO, IBM
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MEAM Seminar: “The Role of Manipulation Primitives in Building Dexterous Robotic Systems”
In this talk I will illustrate four different perspectives that we as a community have embraced to study robotic manipulation: 1) controlling a simplified model of the mechanics of interaction […]
MEAM Seminar: “Time and Rate Dependent Fracture of Polymer Gels and Interfaces”
Fracture of materials and interfaces is often time and rate dependent. The underlying mechanisms for the time and rate dependent fracture may include local molecular processes, viscoelasticity, and poroelasticity (solvent […]
MEAM Seminar: “Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics and Wearables”
Progress in soft lithography and soft materials integration have led to extraordinary new classes of soft-matter sensors, circuits, and transducers. These material technologies are composed almost entirely out of soft […]
MEAM Seminar: “Deep Learning and Uncertainty Quantification: Methodologies and Applications”
Uncertainty is ubiquitous in physical and engineering science because of the lack of knowledge, inaccuracy in measurements, objective stochastic nature. “You cannot be certain about uncertainty”. Uncertainty quantification plays an […]