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Robotics Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series: Professor Rebecca Bottig
 lio-Kramer
Robots that evolve on demand\n\n\n\n      \n      \n\n\n\nAbstract: Soft ro
 bots have the potential to adapt their morphology and behavioral control p
 olicy to changing tasks and environments. Inspired by the dynamic plastici
 ty of living organisms and the general adaptability of animals, this talk 
 will discuss several shape-shifting soft robot platforms for multi-task pe
 rformance and multi-environment locomotion鈥攆or example, robotic skins, r
 obotic fabrics, and robots with morphing limbs. The talk will also explore
  the active material components, such as stretchable electronics and compu
 tation, soft actuation, and variable stiffness materials, that enable pred
 ictable robot morphology changes. By harnessing these engineered materials
  and mechanisms, we aim to unlock a wide range of capabilities for increas
 ingly adaptive, evolving robots.\nBiography:Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio is th
 e John J. Lee Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Yale Univer
 sity. She has received multiple early career awards including the NSF Care
 er Award, the NASA Early Career Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award,
  and the ONR Young Investigator Award. She was named to the Forbes 鈥?0 u
 nder 30鈥?list for her work on liquid metal-based stretchable electronics
 . She received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engi
 neers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outst
 anding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers, for h
 er development of robotic skins that turn inanimate objects into multifunc
 tional robots. She received the Alan T. Waterman award, NSF鈥檚 highest ho
 nor for early-career scientists and engineers, 鈥渇or groundbreaking contr
 ibutions to robotics, particularly in advancing the understanding of how t
 o design and build machines that evolve on demand.鈥?She was named a Nati
 onal Academy of Engineering (NAE) Gilbreth Lecturer in 2022 and a National
  Academy of Science (NAS) Kavli Fellow in 2023. She also serves on the Tec
 hnology, Innovation \& Engineering Committee of the NASA Advisory Council.
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