報告時間：2024年4月12日（星期五）10:00-11:30
報告地點：格物樓214會議室
報 告 人：劉新宇 特聘教授
工作單位：加拿大多倫多大學
舉辦單位：機械工程學院
報告簡介：
In the past decades, significant efforts have been spent on developing soft sensors, electronics, and robots for more efficient and seamless interactions between human and engineering systems. In addition, natural biological systems have also provided enormous inspirations for novel biomimetic designs of soft robots. Together, all these activities have gradually blurred the boundary between our natural biological systems and artificial machines, which may eventually realize the scientific fantasy of cybernetic organisms (cyborgs). My research group at University of Toronto is working at the interface of soft/stretchable sensors, electronics, and robotics. In this talk, I will describe our recent work on developing polymer-based soft sensors and electronics and introduce our progress on optogenetic locomotion control of a living soil-dwelling nematode C. elegans for microrobotic applications. Experimental results and demonstrations will be presented to showcase how new soft materials and structures are designed to construct multifunctional sensors and electronics for wearable sensing, human-machine interaction, and soft robotics; and how the optogenetic worm locomotion control strategy could potentially convert a small organism into a living soft microrobot. Finally, the future work along these directions will be briefly discussed.
報告人簡介：
劉新宇，加拿大多倫多大學機械與工業工程系Percy Edward Hart特聘教授，加拿大國家工程院院士，歐洲科學與藝術院院士，美國和加拿大機械工程學會會士。主要研究方向是微納和軟體機器人學、柔性電子器件、微流控器件與系統。在機器人和生醫結合領域的國際期刊和國際會議上獲得10項最佳論文獎。現任IEEE機器人與自動化學會微納機器人專委會主席，IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters、Frontiers in Robotics and AI、Microsystems & Nanoengineering主編, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering、IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology副主編，中國工程院院刊Engineering 客座編輯。
