Robophysics II

Presentations

• In Search of Emergent Problem Solving in Intelligent Active Matter

  ORAL · Invited

  March 5, 2024, 8:00 AM – March 5, 2024, 8:36 AM

  Publication: 10 Gao Wang,Trung V. Phan, Shengkai Li, Jing Wang, Yan Peng, Guo Chen, Junle Qu, Daniel I. Goldman, Simon A. Levin, Kenneth Pienta, Sarah Amend and Robert H. Austin and Liyu Liu ,
  Robots as models of evolving systems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119:12, (2022)
  
  2) Gao Wang , Trung V. Phan, Shengkai Li, Michael Wombacher, Junle Qu, Yan Peng, Guo Chen, Daniel I. Goldman, Simon A. Levin, Robert H. Austin, and Liyu Liu, Emergent Field-Driven Robot Swarm States, Physical Review Letters 126, 108002 (2021)
  
  3) Trung V. Phan, Gao Wang, Liyu Liu, and Robert H. Austin, Bootstrapped Motion of an Agent on an Adaptive Resource Landscape, Symmetry, 13, 225. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13020225 (2021)

  Presenters

  • Robert H Austin

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Robert H Austin

    • Princeton University

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• Reprogrammable Microscopic Robots

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 8:36 AM – March 5, 2024, 8:48 AM

  Publication: This work is actively being written into a paper for submission to a high-impact journal.

  Presenters

  • Maya M Lassiter

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Maya M Lassiter

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Jungho Lee

    • University of Michigan

  • Kyle Skelil

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • William H Reinhardt

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Lucas C Hanson

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Li Xu

    • NVIDIA

  • Dennis Sylvester

    • University of Michigan

  • David Blaauw

    • University of Michigan

  • Marc Z Miskin

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Material Disturbance during Collective Construction with Soft Matter

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 8:48 AM – March 5, 2024, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Joonha Hwang

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Joonha Hwang

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Laura K Treers

    • University of California, Berkeley
    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Daniel Soto

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Michael D Goodisman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Daniel I Goldman

    • Georgia Tech

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• Mind in Vitro: a complementary approach to physical intelligence

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 9:00 AM – March 5, 2024, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Mattia Gazzola

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Mattia Gazzola

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• The median statistics and velocity dependence of multi-contact dry friction systems

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 9:12 AM – March 5, 2024, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Nick G Gravish

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Nick G Gravish

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Rohan Shah

    • UC San Diego

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• The chaotic milling behaviors of interacting swarms after collision

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 9:24 AM – March 5, 2024, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Sayomi Kamimoto

    • New York University

  Authors

  • Sayomi Kamimoto

    • New York University

  • Jason M Hindes

    • U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

  • Ira B Schwartz

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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• Excluded volume of polytopes and the geometry of inaccessible configurations

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 9:36 AM – March 5, 2024, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Trevor F Teague

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Trevor F Teague

    • University of Michigan

  • Sharon C Glotzer

    • University of Michigan

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• Stigmeric Coverage with a Robotic Collective for Surface Micro-patterning

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 9:48 AM – March 5, 2024, 10:00 AM

  Publication: Microtexturing Meter-scale Functional Surfaces with a Mobile Robot

  Presenters

  • Annalisa T Taylor

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Annalisa T Taylor

    • Northwestern University

  • Malachi Landis

    • Northwestern University

  • Yaoke Wang

    • Northwestern University

  • Ping Guo

    • Northwestern University

  • Todd D Murphey

    • Northwestern University

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• Pulse coupled oscillators for micromachines

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 10:00 AM – March 5, 2024, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Wei Wang

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Milad Taghavi

    • Cornell University

  • Wei Wang

    • Cornell University

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

  • Alyssa Apsel

    • Cornell University

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• Mechanically Transduced Soft Magnetic Rollers

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 10:12 AM – March 5, 2024, 10:24 AM

  Publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-023-01105-5

  Presenters

  • Joshua P Steimel

    • Cal Poly Humboldt

  Authors

  • Joshua P Steimel

    • Cal Poly Humboldt

  • Nicholas Brown

    • UNC

  • Joseph Harrison

    • UOP

  • Alfredo Alexander-Katz

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Differential Drive Kinematics from a Microscopic Robot

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 10:24 AM – March 5, 2024, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • William H Reinhardt

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • William H Reinhardt

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Lucas C Hanson

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Maya M Lassiter

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Tarunyaa Sivakumar

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Scott Shrager

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Marc Z Miskin

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Modeling of elastically coupled robots locomoting on an elastic membrane

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 10:36 AM – March 5, 2024, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • James K Lewis

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • James K Lewis

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Hussain N Gynai

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Shengkai Li

    • Princeton University

  • Gongjie Li

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Daniel I Goldman

    • Georgia Tech

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• 'Mind in Vitro' open hardware: From versatile, robust single-unit neural interfaces to robot-assisted mini-clusters

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 10:48 AM – March 5, 2024, 11:00 AM

  Publication: ZHANG, X., Dou, Z., Kim, S., Upadhyay, G., Havert, D., Kang, S., Kazemi, K., Huang, K.Y.,
  Aydin, O., Huang, R., Rahman, S., Ellis-Mohr, A., Noblet, H., Lim, K., Chung, H., Gritton, H., Saif,
  M.T.A., Kong, H., Beggs, J., Gazzola, M.. 'Mind in Vitro' platforms: Versatile, scalable, robust and
  open solutions to interfacing with living neurons. bioRxiv, 2023, pp.2023-08.

  Presenters

  • Xiaotian Zhang

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Xiaotian Zhang

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Zhi Dou

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Seung Hyun Kim

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Gaurav Upadhyay

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Hongbo Yuan

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Zhantao Song

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Daniel Havert

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  • Kimia Kazemi

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Scott Lee

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Sehong Kang

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Onur Aydin

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Taher Saif

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Nancy Amato

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Hyun Joon Kong

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • John Beggs

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  • Mattia Gazzola

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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