Day 1: (Wed Jan 17, Week 1) Welcome!

Notes for 2024-01-17.

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 22 (next class): Exercise: Reading, Searching, and Skimming. Please submit your result as a Google Doc in the Exercise 1 Shared Folder prior to class.

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.

   • Pandemic and Wellness

   • Office Hours and Zoom

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 [R23])

6. S23 student project example: PneumaFlora

7. S22 student project example: Jellyfish

8. S21 student project example: grubo

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

10. Techniques and skills

    • VPN (Carnegie Mellon University VPN)

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

    • citations (e.g. Bibliography of Soft Robotics (S24))

    • DOI

    • Zotero citation export

Viewings

FAU Robotic Jellyfish

MIT Tangible Media Group - Venous Materials

Injecting liquid metal into channels for soft artificial skin