 Koh Hosoda
Osaka University, Japan
Compliant Body as Source of Intelligence
Summary
Animals and Humans utilize their compliance: muscular system and soft skin. The compliance plays an important role to exhibit intelligent behavior. To build an intelligent artificial agent, therefore, soft material is crucial. In the lecture, I will talk about several robots consisting of soft material for adaptive behavior. They are viewed from the design principles: cheap design, material property and redundancy.
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He received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan in 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he was a Research Associate of Mechanical Engineering for Computer-Controlled Machinery, Osaka University. Since Feb 1997, he has been an Associate Professor of the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University. From Nov 2005, he has been a group leader of the JST Asada ERATO Project, as well. He stayed at AI laboratory, Zurich as a guest professor through Apr 1998 to Mar 1999. |
