4 papers
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence: Summary Report
Victoria A. Webster-Wood, Nicholas Gravish, Amir Alavi +37
This report provides a summary of the outcomes of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Mechanical Intelligence held in 2024. Mechanical Intelligence (MI) represents the phenomenon tha…
Airflow Source Seeking on Small Quadrotors Using a Single Flow Sensor
Lenworth Thomas, Tjaden Bridges, Sarah Bergbreiter
As environmental disasters happen more frequently and severely, seeking the source of pollutants or harmful particulates using plume tracking becomes even more important. Plume tra…
Zippy: The smallest power-autonomous bipedal robot
Steven Man, Soma Narita, Josef Macera +3
Miniaturizing legged robot platforms is challenging due to hardware limitations that constrain the number, power density, and precision of actuators at that size. By leveraging des…
Measuring DNA Microswimmer Locomotion in Complex Flow Environments
Taryn Imamura, Teresa A. Kent, Rebecca E. Taylor +1
Microswimmers are sub-millimeter swimming microrobots that show potential as a platform for controllable locomotion in applications including targeted cargo delivery and minimally…