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I found this article on Deezen describing dresses with fabrics that contract and change color appearance depending on the wearer’s surroundings, resembling a chameleon’s ability. https://www.dezeen.com/2019/10/28/flowing-water-standing-time-ying-gao-chameleon-autonomous-dress-fashion/ The color-changing dress components themselves utilize color sensors, light sensors, and tiny cameras linked to a raspberry PI to gather information about the environmental context. Based on the data,
Continue reading Exercise 5: Art and Design Inspirations

J. Lee and K. Cho, “Development of magnet connection of modular units for soft robotics,” 2017 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), Jeju, 2017, pp. 65-67, doi: 10.1109/URAI.2017.7992886. Do you have any conflict of interest in reviewing this paper? A “conflict of interest” is defined as follows: Ph.D. thesis advisor or advisee
Continue reading Exercise 4: Peer Review

Starting from my previous entry for Exercise One, Soft Lego Blocks (J. Lee, J. Eom, W. Choi and K. Cho, “Soft LEGO: Bottom-Up Design Platform for Soft Robotics,” 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, 2018, pp. 7513-7520, doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593546.), I looked at their referenced work for the project. From there I
Continue reading Exercise Three: Lateral Lit Search

Puffy is a robot that socializes and can help children navigate through emotions through storytelling and gameplay using lights and voice interaction. Alessandro Ubaldi, Mirko Gelsomini, Marzia Degiorgi, Giulia Leonardi, Simone Penati, Noëlie Ramuzat, Jacopo Silvestri, and Franca Garzotto. Puffy, a friendly inflatable social robot. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors
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I was interested in this research because the concept introduces a lower barrier of entry to those unfamiliar with the topic of soft robotics and also because of the flexibility in customization that the familiar semantics of the Lego blocks offers. @INPROCEEDINGS{8593546,author={J. {Lee} and J. {Eom} and W. {Choi} and K. {Cho}},booktitle={2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference
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