Dank künstlicher Intelligenz können Roboter Menschen bereits viele Aufgaben abnehmen. Im Interview erklärt Edoardo Milana, Juniorprofessor für Soft Machines, wie ein verbessertes Design und neuartige Mechanik das Anwendungspotenzial der Maschinen erweitert.
Zum Interview: https://ufr.link/soft-machines
#Robotik #SoftRobotics #KI #livMatS #IMTEK #UniversitätFreiburg
Algovivo an energy-based formulation for soft-bodied virtual creatures
https://juniorrojas.com/algovivo/
#HackerNews #Algovivo #Energy #VirtualCreatures #SoftRobotics #Innovation
This breakthrough could mean wearable devices that fix themselves and robots that survive the harshest environments. #softrobotics #selfhealingtech #futureofwearables
After hosting the #Fabricademy #bootcamp 2025 at @greenfabric we are already preparing next Fabricademy 6-months course starting in September! This programme mixes #textile, #digitalfabrication and #biology
Running from mid-September till end of March, it is led by international experts in many different fields: #biomaterials, #opensource #hardware, #naturaldye, #softrobotics, #etextile, #digitalbodies, #textilescaffolds… It gathers students all around the world through international nodes (#Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Armenia, Jordan, Rwanda, Mexico, Japan…).
It is not structurally subsidized but Green Fabric, the Belgian node, offers 2 full-scolarships per year (for 3 years) with the support of Feder and Brussels Fablab Network. This scolarship covers the 8000$ subscription fees and you'll have access to our textile #fablab during the programme.
I will be the local instructor in Brussels.
Please spread the word to people you think might be interested to follow this one-of-a-kind course!
👶 🍼 🤖 BabyBot: @EPFL PhD student Benhui Dai of the CREATE Lab has worked with a team at Nestlé Research to build a #robot equipped with a soft robotic tongue, sensorized oral cavity, and neural circuits.
Through complex tongue movements and feeding reflexes, BabyBot can ingest liquid & semi-solid foods, replicating feeding behaviors in babies from 0-6 months.
The work highlights the exciting potential of #softrobotics in #pediatric care & #biomedicalengineering! 🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44182-025-00026-3
Feeding behaviours and oral motor development are essential for adequate nutrition and management of medical conditions, but ethical and practical challenges limit direct tests, especially in infants. This study introduces BabyBot, a robot mimicking the oral-brain system with sensory-motor control pathways. Equipped with soft robotic tongue,sensorized oral cavity, and neural circuits, the robot can perform complicated tongue movements, replicate and modulate feeding-reflex programs. BabyBot is designed in modularity to simulate developmental stages from birth to six months. The robot’s performance and food intake efficiency are validated to match human physiology, and it can effectively handle liquid and semi-solid foods. Furthermore, BabyBot can demonstrate abnormal situations, including immature sucking in preterms, gag reflex to inappropriate feeding, and inadequate movements. Our work not only provides an in vitro simulator that simulates infant physiological behaviours and development, but also highlights the potential of soft robotics in pediatric care, biology evolution, and biomedical engineering.
A soft robot that twists like pasta and climbs wires like a cable car—all powered by light. Discover the future of aerial transport. #SoftRobotics #FutureTech #Innovation
https://geekoo.news/skywalking-softbots-aerial-robots-that-twist-climb-and-carry/
*It's been a big week for peculiar knitting. #physics #softrobotics #assemblage #programming
#Fabricademy bootcamp 2025
May 19→25
Don't miss this year's bootcamp in Brussels to encounter international fellows in the field of #textile, #engineering and #biology.
I am co-organizing it through the #fablab @GreenFabric and the #fabricademy team (@fabtextiles ).
A great opportunity to test Fabricademy themes and way of working through intense hands-on workshops. It will cover #biomaterials with #mycelium #fungi, #modulardesign, #machineknitting with the #kniterate machine, using the #opensourcehardware machines that we built, #etextile with thermochromic inks.
Don't miss also the #MakerFaire on the following week-end (May 26-27) with the Fabricademy exhibition of final projects and a workshop on #softrobotics.
More info on https://bootcamp2025.textile-academy.org.
Boosts are more than welcome!
#fiberarts #innovation #research #digitalart #design #bruxelles #brussel #brussels
Textile Academy Bootcamp Brussels is an in-depth intensive 5-day course meant for creatives, fashion and textile designers, both teachers and students and digital fabrication experts. During the course, participants will explore new possibilities and alternatives to the current textile and clothing manufacturing systems, experiencing with new materials, technologies and processes at intersection of textiles, digital fabrication, and biology.
These 3D-printed robots don’t need batteries or wires. They walk using only heat and smart design. A leap forward in simplicity. #SoftRobotics #3DPrinting #BioinspiredDesign
https://geekoo.news/3d-printed-robots-that-walk-no-electronics-required/
Universität Freiburg
Hacker News
Geekoo
Stéphanie Vilayphiou
EPFL School of Engineering
Bruce Sterling @bruces
Kirsty Wan