THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ROBOTICS
TALLINN JUNE 20 - 23 / 2011
Workshop on Soft Robotics (abstract)
| 09.00 - 09.45 | Barbara Mazzolai, Director, Centre for Micro-BioRobotics of IIT@SSSA, Pontedera (Pisa), Italy, Cecilia Laschi, Prof. of Biorobotics, Scuola Superiore Sant?Anna, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy, ?The octopus as a paradigm for soft robotics? |
| 09.45 - 11.00 | Rolf Pfeifer, Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland, "Embodied artificial intelligence" |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 12.15 | Barry Trimmer, Tufts University ? Department of Biology, ?Lessons from Life: Novel locomotory strategies for soft animals and robots? |
| 12.15 - 13.00 | Frederic Boyer, Prof. in Biorobotics, Ecole des Mines de Nantes-IRCCyN, Nantes, France, ?Macro-Continuous Dynamics For Hyper-Redundant Robots: Application to Kinematic Locomotion Bio-Inspired by Elongated Animals? |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | Koh Hosoda, University of Osaka, Japan, ?Muscular-skeleton robots as platforms for soft robotics? |
| 14.45 - 15.30 | Maarja Kruusma, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy, ?Soft responses to hard problems: sensor-actuator coupling for a compliant robot in a fluid flow? |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Virgilio Mattoli, Team Leader, Centre for Micro-BioRobotics of IIT@SSSA, Pontedera (Pisa), Italy, "Smart materials" |
| 16.45 - 17.00 | Conclusions |
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