报告时间：2024年4月12日（周五）10:00点-11:30点

报告地点：格物楼214学术报告厅

报 告 人：刘新宇 特聘教授

工作单位：加拿大多伦多大学

举办单位：机械工程学院

Abstract:

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 nematodeC. 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.

个人简介：

加拿大多伦多大学机械与工业工程系Percy Edward Hart特聘教授，加拿大国家工程院院士，欧洲科学与艺术院院士，美国和加拿大机械工程学会会士。主要研究方向是微纳和软体机器人学、柔性电子器件、微流控器件与系统。在机器人和生医结合领域的国际期刊和国际会议上获得10项最佳论文奖。现任IEEE机器人与自动化学会微纳机器人专委会主席，IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters、Frontiers in Robotics and AI、Microsystems & Nanoengineering主编, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering、IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology副主编，中国工程院院刊Engineering客座编辑。