Professor George M. Whitesides, Harvard University: "Soft Robotics"
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H.C. Ørsted Lecture, 26th of May 2016.
Professor George M. Whitesides, Harvard University: ‘Soft Robotics’
Abstract
«Robotics» is a field with broad interest: it combines mechanical engineering, information science, and animal physiology with manufacturing, workforce development, economics, and other areas. The most highly developed classes of robots have been build based on conceptual models provided by the body-plans of animals with skeletons (humans, horses), and have made it possible to carry out tasks that humans and animals could not (for a variety of reasons).
We are interested in robots based on a different, simpler class of organisms (invertebrates: starfish, worms, octopi). Because these organisms, and the robots having designs stimulated by them, have no skeletons, they provide enormous opportunities in materials and polymer science, rather than primarily in mechanical engineering.
This seminar will outline one approach to soft robots, and suggest problems and opportunities in this new field.
Very cool content and lecture! Note to all academic and industry video editors: it is interesting to see the lecture room and audience maybe once at the beginning and once at the end. After that, please focus on the slides and videos being shown in their original format (show the content, not the content being projected on a screen). This is especially important for technical subjects. Thanks!
Very exciting talk! And the professor is not only talking about soft robotics itself, but also delivers the spirit of science. It refreshes my mind and I am respectful for him.
Why in the world would you show the camera on him when he's trying to show us something on the PPT??!
This great talk gives me a lot of inspirations. Thank you!
29:01 Big selling point in 2020
This comment is not about the content of the talk, but rather about the filming,,,why the focus is almost always on the speaker even when there will be more value of showing what he is presenting in his visual presentation? So many missed visuals.
Very nice. We can guess that factory work and production work in large scale factories will be less and less human work. At least the design and maintenance jobs are still safe.
I see possibilities that don't hurt people.
"You don't think of this, but you're filthy and [if you get sick 100 others could as well.]"
This prescient statement unfortunately aged very well.
Edison may not have conducted much scientific research himself, but he did fund others like Nikola Tesla to do so. Therefore, Edison did see the value in scientific research.
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strain wave reducer ,
over 30 years experience,
robot joint ,
Even people with crappy jobs don't want to be fired and replaced.
I love science but we also need jobs.
we need to get away from this thinking. if robots can do work for humans, we should be able to reap those fruits as a humanity. we could decouple survival from income by distributing the profits to all of humanity.
You need the money from that job. not the job