Faculty Dialogues: Softbotics, Building Robotics for Everyday Life

January 26, 2022

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

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Softbotics is about bringing robotics into everyday life—and evolving our own thinking from robots as large, industrial scale machines to smaller, human-scale components that integrate into our lives and our world.  
 
In order to pioneer this new generation of machines that are safe and comfortable for direct physical interaction with humans, researchers must create imperceptible robots and develop highly symbiotic, complex systems that seamlessly integrate with human life.  
 
Join a panel of CMU experts for a discussion of how their groundbreaking research is creating small, soft, and biointerfacing machines and bringing robots into households, workplaces, hospitals, and even the natural world. 

Speakers

Bill Sanders (moderator), Dr. William D. and Nancy Strecker Dean, College of Engineering

Sarah Bergbreiter, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Enginering

Carmel Majidi, Clarence H. Adamson Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

Victoria Webster-Wood, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

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