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ME Seminar: From Social Insects to Robots: Designing with Collective Embodied

Visiting faculty from Cornell University, Dr. Kirstin Petersen, will be presenting a seminar titled, “From Social Insects to Robots: Designing with Collective Embodied Intelligence.” Abstract: Natural swarms exhibit sophisticated colony-level behaviors with remarkable scalability and error tolerance. Their evolutionary success stems from more than just intelligent individuals, it hinges on their morphology, their physical interactions, and the way they shape and leverage their environment. Mound-building termites, for instance, are believed to use their own body as a template for construction; the resulting dirt mound serves, among other things, to regulate volatile pheromone cues which in turn guide further construction and colony growth. Throughout this talk I will argue how we can leverage the same principles to achieve greater performance in robot collectives, by paying attention to the interplay between control and hardware, as well as direct- and environmentally-mediated coordination between robots. I will exemplify the strength and challenges of this approach through soft and amorphous robot collectives, collective robotic construction, and micro-scale robot collectives. Also available on Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/82542491692 Meeting ID: 825 4249 1692 Passcode: 000883

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Mechanical Engineering, Mānoa Campus

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Samantha Kawamoto, 8089567167, meoffice@hawaii.edu