Carmel Majidi | Source | Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Carmel Majidi
Carmel is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His career mission is to discover materials, hardware architectures, and fabrication methods that allow robots and machines to behave like soft biological organisms, and be safe for contact with humans. The aim is to replace the bulky and rigid hardware in existing robots with soft, lightweight, and deformable technologies that match the functionality of natural biological tissue.
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Carnegie Mellon University (https://www.cmu.edu/)
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CMU Core Partner in New Center To Improve Robot Dexterity - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University
New Engineering Research Center to receive up to $52 million.
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Soft Robotics: Revolutionizing Interaction with Flexible Tech
Carmel says soft robotics involves systems made of soft, deformable materials like rubber, enabling safe interaction with delicate objects and human tissue. Applications include wearable devices, delicate object handling, and minimally-invasive surgery. Future goals include environmental monitoring and medical tasks. While offering safe interaction, they lack load-bearing capacity. This tech is crucial for advancing healthcare and environmental exploration.
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It’s an exciting time for softbotics. We will be solving major challenges to build the artificial muscles, responsive skin-like material and motor-powered tendons needed for user-friendly robots with dexterous capabilities to empower tomorrow’s workforce.
