A soft matter computer for soft robots
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 243016124
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1126/scirobotics.aaw6060
- Title of journal
- Science Robotics
- Article number
- eaaw6060
- First page
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- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 33
- ISSN
- 2470-9476
- Open access status
- Exception within 3 months of publication
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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A - Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy
- Citation count
- 10
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Presents a new paradigm of computing in soft robotics without conventional silicon technologies, overturning conventional practice. Featured in Nature Material Reviews [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-019-0147-7.pdf?origin=ppub], Daily Mail [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7387095/Life-like-robots-make-decisions-adapt-environment-learn-one-step-closer.html], Daily Mirror [https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/life-like-robots-can-make-18979435], and Forbes [https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2019/08/23/i-robot-two-breakthroughs-pave-the-way-for-more-lifelike-robotics/] amongst others.
Output of Rossiter's EPSRC Fellowship (£1.3M, EP/M020460/1) and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies (£1.3M, 2018-2028). Resulted in UK-RAS Strategic Task Group for Soft Robotics (£28k, PI Hauser), new director of CDT (Hauser). Led to new joint UK-US initiative (Centre for Organic Robotics (CORS)) with world leaders R.Wood (Harvard), M.Levin and B.Trimmer (Tufts), and J.Bongard (Vermont), and new collaboration with Christian Duriez INRIA (France).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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