© Jamani Caillet_Mediacom EPFL 2022
Reconfigurable robots:
adaptive technology for dynamic worlds
How can we be more human while in harmony with our evolving world?
Adaptation is the adjustment of organisms to their environment to improve their chances of survival. The focus of adaptive technology is to promote human autonomy, not the opposite. We need the technology to assist, complement, and facilitate our changing needs in our dynamic world.
This exhibition highlights adaptive reconfigurable robots. Their system-level intelligence characterizes them through unconventional system designs and control, novel material components, and advanced manufacturing methodologies.
Recent Publication Highlights
Advanced Intelligent Systems, June 2022 Front Cover
Soft Robotics, June & April 2022
Advanced Intelligent Systems, March 2022 Editors’ Choice
Advanced Science, Oct 2021
Extreme Mechanics, May 2021
Nature Machine Intelligence, Dec 2019 Front Cover
Nature, July 2019
Science Robotics, Oct 2017 Focus Article
Granted Patents
A soft portable wearable pneumatic interactive suit, filed 2020, granted 2022 @EU & US.
A planar pop-up actuator device with embedded electro-magnetic actuation, filed 2018, granted 2021 US.