soft robotics

Clip: George M. Whitesides "Hard Questions For Translating Soft Robotics In Real World Applications"

In this episode, we interviewed Bram Vanderborght is professor robotics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. he is a member of the interdisciplinary Brussels Human Robotics Research Center (BruBotics). His research interests include cognitive and physical human-robot interaction, robot-assisted therapy, humanoids and rehabilitation robotics with the core technology of using variable impedance actuators.

Soft Robotics with Bram Vanderborght

In this episode, we interviewed Carmel Majidi, who is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Carmel's mission is to discover materials, hardware architectures, and fabrication methods that allow robots and machines to behave like soft biological organisms and be safe for contact with humans.  The aim is to replace the bulky and rigid hardware in existing robots with soft, lightweight, and deformable technologies that match the functionality of natural biological tissue.  Currently, his group is focused on filled-elastomer composites and soft microfluidic systems that exhibit unique combinations of mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties and can function as “artificial” skin, nervous tissue, and muscle for soft robotics and wearables.  I’m particularly interested in approaches that are practical from a rapid prototyping and robotics implementation perspective.  This includes efforts to enable robust mechanical and electrical interfacing between soft-matter systems and conventional microelectronics and hardware.

Soft Robotics with Carmel Majidi (Part1)

In this podcast, we interviewed Geoffrey Spinks, a senior Professor at the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials. Geoffry is currently the Challenge Leader for Making Future Industries at the University of Wollongong's Global Challenges Program. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 1990 for his work on the mechanical behavior of polymers and he has maintained a research interest in this area specializing in mechanical actuator materials (artificial muscles). Geoff has published over 200 journal articles, including 5 co-authored articles in Science magazine. He is the co-recipient of more than $35m in grant funding.  He had more than 10,000 citations and an "h-index" of 49. Geoff has worked closely with industry including sabbatical leave with BHP Research and Allied Signal Inc. (USA) and collaborative projects funded by industry and through the ARC Linkage and CRC schemes. Geoff has had a strong engagement with teaching across all levels of engineering materials and was the co-founder of UoW’s bachelor's degrees in Nanotechnology.

Soft Robotics with Geoffrey Spinks

In this episode, we have interviewed Prof.Cecilia Laschi, a professor at the BioRobotics Institute of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa.
I really enjoyed this talk, we spoke about different topics starting from her research, and philosophical related to the field.

Soft Robotics with Cecilia Laschi

In this episode, We have Prof. Jamie Paik, the founder of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at EPFL.  I really enjoyed this interesting and thoughtful discussion by Prof.Jamie.  I hope you would find this episode useful

Soft Robotics With Jamie Paik

Hey! I am Marwa ElDiwiny, the host and creator of the Soft Robotics podcast. I started this podcast for a reason, one of them was to ask the questions I always wanted to ask when I was in the lab and reignite my curiosity by talking to interesting people. I found my purpose in this podcast, I hope it may inspire someone somehow along this journey!

Clip: George M. Whitesides "Hard Questions For Translating Soft Robotics In Real World Applications"

Soft Robotics Podcast