Stanford Seminar - Engineering physical principles of embryonic morphogenesis in robotic collectives

April 26, 2024
Elliot Hawkes, UCSB
Embryonic tissue is an active material able to self-shape, self-heal, and control its strength in space and time. Realizing these features in synthetic materials would change static objects-with properties set at design time-into dynamic programmable matter. However, unlike tissue, which achieves these capabilities by rearranging tight-packed cells throughout the tissue, current material-like robotic collectives can generally only move units at the perimeter of the collective. In this talk, I will describe how by encoding key tissue-inspired processes into robotic units, here we build material-like robotic collectives capable of topological rearrangement throughout the collective, enabling spatiotemporal control of shape and strength.
About the speaker: me.ucsb.edu/people/elliot-hawkes
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