Soft Robotics Podcast Marwa ElDiwiny

Pablo Molina "Kas, Avidbots" Autonomous Cleaning Robots by Marwa ElDiwiny

Mike Fiorito is an editor, journalist and the award-winning author of eight genre-defying books: For All We Know, The Hated Ones, Falling from Trees, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud’s Haberdashery Habit, and Hallucinating Huxley.

To connect with Mike: https://mikefiorito.com

More about Hamed's work: https://hamedrajabi.com

What is Mechanical Intelligence (MI)?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202203783

Complexity Biomechanics: a novel framework for sustainable and regenerative design and development:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0060

A few examples of how insect wings have inspired innovative designs:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2211861119

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05206-1

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202004383

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202004338

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00339-021-04310-5

Old episode "Jennifer Mather "My Octopus Teacher, Octopus Cognition" by Marwa ElDiwiny

Special thanks to Purvis Bedenbaugh, our podcast listeners who brought my attention to Corentin's work. Thank you Purvis!


More about Corentin Coulais's work:

-Endless domino effect
https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2024/03/an-endless-domino-effect.html?origin=hqZwIY6%2FTt2p%2FbYjLQhlIg

-Locomotion in non-reciprocal materials
https://www.quantamagazine.org/wheel-made-of-odd-matter-spontaneously-rolls-uphill-20220615/

Plasticity and buckling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04748

Thanks to Scott Walter for co-hosting this episode, you can follow him on X @GoingBallistic5