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For international PhDs interested in visiting my group: We offer up to £3,000 to cover visa fees, immigration health surcharge, travel costs, and consumables. Visits must end by June 30. Deadline: March 1. Contact me if interested!

We are glad to share our work on the GOAT robot in Science Robotics. By harnessing "environmental computation," GOAT adapts its shape to let the terrain help guide its navigation—an approach that allows it to work with nature rather than against it. #Robot #Robotics Open Robotics

⭐️New blog post alert⭐️ The Rule of Three The rule of three is a highly effective productivity technique. For me it was a game-changer! Focus on 3 daily goals that flow into 3 weekly goals, link to 3 monthly goals, and stem from 3 bold yearly goals. Step by step, you’ll conquer

✍️My Workshop 'How to Write Stories'✍️- Thank you Cathedral Primary School for having me for #BookWeek. I was blown away by Years 5&6 creativity. Writing is not about perfection, it is about storytelling. Well done for writing the stories you want to read! tinyurl.com/BookWeekWriting

We have Postdoc Position(2.0-2.5 yrs) in Computational Magnetomechanics funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council bit.ly/3R6DXre Chennakesava Kadapa Soft Robotics UK UKACM IACM Yarjan Abdul Samad Helmut Hauser James Busfield Kaspar Althoefer Shaoting Lin High-Performance-Computing Group 🇺🇦 Prof. Ian Masters Fehmi Cirak

A growth mindset is crucial for success. Don’t work more, but work differently. For example, if you write 2 papers per year as a Postdoc and want to write 10 as an Assistant Professor, don’t trey to work 5 times harder (not possible anyway). Focus on growing your group and

When giving talks, don’t copy and paste figures from your article. A presentation figure has unique needs and opportunities, like step-by-step buildup. Attendees haven’t read your full paper, so create a version tailored for the talk.

Don't just celebrate obvious academic achievements like the acceptance of a paper or a funding application; also take pride in submitting an article or proposal. Celebrate consistency! Celebrate delivering output without needing external approval.

The most dangerous procrastination is subtle, appearing as busy "work" that feels important but contributes nothing to your goals. You feel you work a lot, yet achieve nothing by avoiding tackling meaningful goals. Email can be this type of procrastination.

One of my favorite apps is AffinityDesigner. I use it constantly in my academic work for articles, proposals, slides, lectures, and just for fun. Here are my top 3 tricks I use regularly. @Affinity worksmartandberemarkable.com/blog/2024/my-t…

We still have a few places left for our Productivity Workshop at #RoboSoft2025. We'll assign the free spots on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone from the Soft Robotics Community is welcome! More details and a sign-up form are here: worksmartandberemarkable.com/robosoft2025-p…

For our next MorphoTalk session on 9 April 2025, we’ll be joined by Dr. Martin Hanczyc from University of Trento, Italy. Dr. Hanczyc will present an experimental model of bottom up synthetic biology that can sense and metabolize. With Kieran Nazareth and Helmut Hauser #Robotics

New blog post on my academic productivity website.

Upcoming Productivity Workshop next Tuesday (April 22nd) at the IEEE RoboSoft Conference. Participants from all continents (see map) and 13 countries ranging from BSc students to Associate Professors.

Had a wonderful time discussing ways to support prosthetic users with soft robotic technology. Thank you Dr Claire Asher 🐀 for the thoughtful conversation! Feel free to ask for any further details #softrobotics #prosthetics #eskins #morphologicalcomputation

#ICYMI: Last month, I chatted to Miranda Lowther (Myra Lowther) from FARSCOPE CDT University of Bristol about soft robotics and electronic skin.

Great to see Morphological Computation showing up in Science Robotics !

🚀 New paper out in Acta Astronautica! I explore how pneumatic artificial muscles could help maintain astronauts’ muscle health in Martian gravity 💪🪐 A first step toward wearable countermeasures for long missions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.acta…

Our new paper on Atomic-Like Packing of Artificial Muscles for power exosuits is now online! 🦾🦿🤖: doi.org/10.1016/j.matd…. Well done Emanuele Pulvirenti and all! 👏 BristolRoboticsLab University of Bristol

How the natural world is inspiring the robot eyes of the future nature.com/articles/d4158… EPFL