Day 1: (Wed Jan 18, Week 1) Welcome!

Notes for 2023-01-18.

I will post a daily agenda page for each class; this will be your essential guide to the progress of the class.

New Assignment

• Due before Mon Jan 23 (next class): Exercise: Reading, Searching, and Skimming.

Daily Agenda

1. Introductions

   • Your instructor

   • Brief synopsis of the course objectives

   • Mutual introductions

   • Questions?

2. Administrative

   • Tour of the course site

   • Laser cutter qualification: see IDeATe Laser Cutter Policies

   • IDeATe 3D-printing. 3D CAD?

   • IDeATe lab access.

   • Canvas calendar?

   • Pandemic and Wellness

   • S23 Office Hours Poll, Office Hours.

3. Viewings

   • Florida Atlantic University, BioRobotics Lab

   • MIT Media Lab - Tangible Media Group

   • Harvard Microrobotics Lab

   • Nicole Hone

   • for more, see Videos of Related Work

4. Discussion

5. Anatomy of a research paper (see [R37])

6. S22 student project example: Jellyfish

7. S21 student project example: grubo

8. First assignment: Exercise: Reading, Searching, and Skimming.

9. Techniques and skills

   • VPN (Carnegie Mellon University VPN)

   • searching for papers (e.g. IEEE Xplore)

   • citations (e.g. Bibliography of Soft Robotics (S23))

   • DOI

   • Zotero citation export

Viewings

FAU Robotic Jellyfish

MIT Tangible Media Group - Venous Materials

Injecting liquid metal into channels for soft artificial skin