Pablo Molina "Kas, Avidbots" Autonomous Cleaning Robots by Marwa ElDiwiny

Mike Fiorito is an editor, journalist and the award-winning author of eight genre-defying books: For All We Know, The Hated Ones, Falling from Trees, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud’s Haberdashery Habit, and Hallucinating Huxley.

To connect with Mike: https://mikefiorito.com

More about Hamed's work: https://hamedrajabi.com

What is Mechanical Intelligence (MI)?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202203783

Complexity Biomechanics: a novel framework for sustainable and regenerative design and development:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsfs.2023.0060

A few examples of how insect wings have inspired innovative designs:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2211861119

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05206-1

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202004383

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.202004338

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00339-021-04310-5

Hamed Rajabi "Mechanical Intelligence, Metamaterial, Crack Deflection, Insect Wings by Marwa ElDiwiny

Old episode "Jennifer Mather "My Octopus Teacher, Octopus Cognition" by Marwa ElDiwiny

Special thanks to Purvis Bedenbaugh, our podcast listeners who brought my attention to Corentin's work. Thank you Purvis!

More about Corentin Coulais's work:

-Endless domino effect

https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2024/03/an-endless-domino-effect.html?origin=hqZwIY6%2FTt2p%2FbYjLQhlIg

-Locomotion in non-reciprocal materials

https://www.quantamagazine.org/wheel-made-of-odd-matter-spontaneously-rolls-uphill-20220615/

Plasticity and buckling

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04748

Thanks to Scott Walter for co-hosting this episode, you can follow him on X @GoingBallistic5

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Kevin Knuth's Sol talk: https://youtu.be/HlYwktOj75A?si=EpzCxl8zk6IQvHS7

Old Episode "Will Jackson: Engineered Arts, Ameca, Humanoid Robots" by Marwa ElDiwiny

Round2: Markus Buehler "Spider Web Secrets: Exploring Materials, Structure, Modeling, and Sound" by Marwa ElDiwiny