Exhibit

How to make a robot

Behind the scenes at a reserach centre - all you ever wanted to know about muscles and the art of robotic

06 - 07 October The events repeat on thursday 6 & Friday 7 from 9:00 to 12:30

A presentation of the new frontier of robotics with the Softhand: a hand for humans and robots; come and try it and check out the QBmove, the next generation robot muscles that will enable them to fulfill similar movements to those of humans. Edited by Centro di Ricerca E.Piaggio, Università di Pisa

Octopus the robot

When robotics are Inspired by nature and become soft and squidgy

from 06 Oct to 09 Oct The events repeat on thur, frid & sat from 9 to 12:30; sat & sun from 15:00 to 18:30

What can an octopus teach a bunch of biorobotics researchers? Unlike robots, octopuses don’t have any rigid physical components which gives them uncanny freedom of movement. So maybe octopuses can teach us how to build soft robot? Edited by “Cecilia Laschi |Istituto di BioRobotica, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa”

The events repeat on thur, frid & sat from 9 to 12:30; sat & sun from 15:00 to 18:30
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