Inspired by nature, sourced from nature, designed for nature, and published in @Nature ! Biodegradable morphing robots are "gone to earth".
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Lining Yao
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Lining Yao
@lining_yao
Assistant Professor @UCBerkeley @Cal_Engineer @BerkeleyME/ Director of Morphing Matter Lab / alum @mit @medialab @cmuhcii/ design sustainable morphing materials
- Replying to @lining_yaoIt is a wood-based biodegradable seed carrier that mimics seeds of Erodium, a genus of plants with seeds that unwind coiled tails to act as a drill to plant into the ground.
GIF - Replying to @lining_yaoA new biodegradable seed carrier design is described in a paper in @Nature. This technology may improve the effectiveness of aerial seeding to address agricultural and environmental stresses in degraded regions.
GIF - Morphing Matter Lab @MorphingMatLab contributes to five papers to be presented at #chi2023 in April, on morphing matter that thinks, human-AI collaboration in MM design tool, computational fabrication and knitting,machine augmentation. @acm_chi @cmuhcii @SCSatCMU @CMUEngineering
00:00 - From materials to structure to mechanism: Our energy-efficient bi-stable morphing actuators are on the front cover of @AdvSciNews this week. Collaboration @MorphingMatLab @SCSatCMU, @SoftMachinesLab @CMUEngineering and @StructuresComp @UCLAMechAeroEng onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…
- Tate Johnston, a @cmudesign @cmuhcii @MorphingMatLab undergrad, led a dynamic haptic work that won an honorable mention award at @acmdis2023 , a major design conference in ACM HCI. It is an elegant design twist on a popular robotic reconfigurable texture technique.
GIF - After over 3 years, ‘Morphing Pasta and Beyond’, cover feature of Science Advances! Our dreams come true: design curiosity inspires and promotes science!How expanded contraception access led to higher graduation rates in Colorado, and why 2D pastas and other foods could reduce packaging waste and lower food costs. These, and other stories, out now in Science Advances: fcld.ly/tcck1d0
- Electronic-free devices sense, compute, morph, and interact with people - Embodied Intelligence and Interactivity. Physically encoded security: A door latch can only open when one squeezes at a certain rate. By Dr. Qiuyu (Luca) Lu and his team at #chi23 @MorphingMatLab @cmuhcii
GIF - Replying to @lining_yaoThis is a cover feature of the newest Nature, Feb 15, 2023 issue. nature.com/nature/volumes…
- HCI community, please help spread the news! In an effort to be inclusive in forming the UIST2024 organizing committee, @mynkgoel and I, as the general co-chairs, are issuing this open call to HCI researchers. We welcome you from everywhere around the world! # UIST2024@Pittsburgh.Call to be an organizing committee member for UIST 2024. Help us organize UIST by applying to be a part of the organizing committee. Please fill out linked form by September 15th. It should not take more than 10 minutes to complete. forms.gle/zV1366D3uDTFLJ…
- Replying to @lining_yaoThe self-burying seed carrier can be used to deliver functional devices, such as sensors, fertilizers and different plant seeds.
- Morphing Pasta tutorial is up, with downloadable stamping molds and links to where to print them. Some collaborators were able to successfully follow the tutorial. For non-commercial uses (e.g., research, class, STEM workshops), this is freely available! morphingmatterforgirls.org/courses/morphi…
- I (Morphing Matter Lab at CMU) is looking for industrial designers/makers to join as PhDs, full time/part time researchers, or postdocs. Feel free to reach out.
