Recently, the SDU Biorobotics team at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation from Lund University, including Professor Marie Dacke and Researcher Claudia Tocco, accompanied by journalist Lena Nordlund.
The visit served as an opportunity to discuss and exchange knowledge between biological discovery and robotics technologies, identifying how the natural world informs the next generation of intelligent machines.
During the visit, Professor Manoonpong and Professor Xiong showed the development of dung beetle–inspired robots at the Embodied AI and Neurorobotics Lab.
Jawad (PhD student) represented the MAESTRI project and presented his newly developed magnetically actuated soft robot locomotion system. The magnetic soft robot exploits its dome-shaped polystable structure to perform versatile locomotion through multiple distinct kinematic states when actuated by a simple single-translating magnet setup.
