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ShanghAI Lectures 2012: Lecture 5 “Design principles for intelligent systems (part 2)”
This is the second part of the “Design Principles for Intelligent Systems” ShanghAI Lecture. After Rolf Pfeifer’s class, Barry Trimmer (Tufts University, USA) gives a guest presentation about soft robotics.
The ShanghAI Lectures are a videoconference-based lecture series on Embodied Intelligence run by Rolf Pfeifer and organized by me and partners around the world.
Barry Trimmer: Living Machines: Soft Animals, Soft Robots and Biohybrids
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Nathan Labhart
Co-organizing the ShanghAI Lectures since 2009.
Nathan Labhart
Co-organizing the ShanghAI Lectures since 2009.
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