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Recent study proposes millipede-inspired neural control with leg-body coordination strategies, enabling a millipede-like robot to perform obstacle avoidance and navigate complex environments. See the paper at frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

The Roles of Self-organization and Sensory Adaptation for Locomotion in Animals and Robots frontiersin.org/research-topic…

🌟 Big News! 🚀 OTH Regensburg leads MAESTRI, a European doctoral network in Magnetic Soft Robotics. With €2,356,970.40 funding, we're shaping the future of robotics across 5 countries. Learn more: rfr.bz/ta0dskv #MAESTRI #SoftRobotics #FutureTech 🤖

Available PhD Position in Adaptive Neural Control for Magnetic Soft Robotics at SDU Biorobotics Syddansk Universitet Denmark The position (DC6) is part of the MSCA Doctoral Network-MAESTRI "Magnetic Soft Matter for Robotics" See info euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/214572 #softrobotic #neuralnetworks

New OA article published in Advanced Science @AdvSciNews by our PhD student Jonathan Tirado Earthworm-Inspired Soft Skin Crawling Robot 🪱 doi.org/10.1002/advs.2… with Jonas Jørgensen Ahmad Rafsanjani SDU Biorobotics Syddansk Universitet #earthworm #softrobotics #locomotion #friction

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This morning Poramate Manoonpong, University of Southern Denmark, Plenary 6 about Machine intelligence inspired by nature: from locomotion to manipulation and navigation #ICN2024Berlin

Turns out ginger cats are great role-models to model "models" that can be used by robots :) Riveting talk by Dr. Poramate Manoonpong on research that's bridging gaps between Biological and machine Intelligence #icn2024berlin #neuroethology

"Informative but Discomforting.🚦Adding Dynamic Light to a Hexapod Robot with a Soft Skin" is published in #RoboticsReports Mary Ann Liebert Inc by our visiting master student Henri Vandeputte KU Leuven 🔗 doi.org/10.1089/rorep.… Poramate Manoonpong Jonas Jørgensen youtu.be/tGXk20UHc80

Workshop "Embodied locomotion mechanisms in animals and robots: from morphological to neural computations" How nature can bring robotics technology to the next level! On September 18, 2024· at SWARM2024· Kyoto, Japan swarm-systems.org/swarm2024/work…

Dung beetles' epic ball-rolling skills are inspiring multitasking robots! Poramate Manoonpong and colleagues decoded how beetles roll heavy dung balls over tricky terrain, creating a neural control system for robots to adaptively walk and roll. Read more: ow.ly/Qoic50TXPGM

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Frontiers in Robotics and AI is partnering with the 1st International Symposium on Physical Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (IS-PAIR) hosted by General Chair Poramate Manoonpong We will be hosting an abstract book of short contributions to the conference and a follow up Research

Nature's All‐in‐One: Multitasking Robots Inspired by Dung Beetles (Adv. Sci. 47/2024) - Leung - 2024 - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Congratulations to Prof. Poramate (IST) and Prof. Watcharaphol (MSE) for receiving an award from TTSF. Source: ttsf.or.th/en/winner-list… And ttsf.or.th/en/winner-list…

We believe this work highlights the power of bio-inspired learning mechanisms in robotics. Our Hebbian networks are simple, lightweight, and robust and they generalize without requiring architectural complexity or training tricks. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.12406 Project page with

Insect-Inspired Resilient Machines (Poramate Manoonpong and co-workers) 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ai…

Insect-Inspired Resilient Machines Our new study presents a decentralized resilient neural control for legged robots, enabling self-organized locomotion and rapid adaptation to extreme leg loss within seconds. youtu.be/__gviiVEqkY?si… advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ai…