Particular themes include: Biomimetic robotics Biohybrid systems including biological - machine interfaces Neuromimetic systems
Soft robot system Active sensing in vision and touch Social robotics Biomimetics of plants A list of accepted papers and extended abstracts can be found HERE.
Not exact matches
Though an «explosion - powered»
robot may not intuitively sound safe, the
soft - body, combustion - based
system is actually safer than traditional inflexible
robots.
It will be some time before
soft robots are capable of anything nearly as sophisticated as da Vinci, but there is a lot of interest in how this emerging technology could be used in the medical field — either on its own or combined with a surgical
system like da Vinci.
Should education
systems in the future focus more on
softer skills and give up teaching hard skills altogether, or is there some value in knowing skills that
robots, at the moment, seem to be better at?
My colleagues and I at the University of Salford's Centre for Autonomous
Systems and Robotics have built a variable stiffness
robot arm that we hope will make progress towards larger
soft robots.