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ERC Starting Grant · 2025

Distributed Addressable Robotic Material via Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized today’s society by expanding machines’ intellectual ability to approach humans through the creation of advanced algorithms. The physical capability of machines, however, remains basic compared to the evolved algorithms. Natural organisms have soft distributed musculatures actively coordinated in various ways to achieve different physical functions; machines are assembled from passive and rigid components with limited functions. The field of soft robotics has taken a leap to approach organisms by employing soft elastomeric materials that can either passively adapt to the environment or actively actuated by stimulus. Development so far has mainly…

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