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enSoft Robotics Postdoc Position at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span> </span><span>Dear colleagues,</span> <span>There is a funded postdoc position (2-3 years) at Soft Robotics and Biodesign lab (</span><a href="http://softrobotics.sjtu.edu.cn/">http://softrobotics.sjtu.edu.cn/</a><span> </span><span>), Robotics Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China. We have a soft robotic project on developing wearable and </span><span>assistive soft</span><span> robots for assisting and restoring the ability of the humans with the upper extremity weakness in activities of daily living. </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">We seek two post-doctoral researchers who are interested in working with our team and have the experiences in the research areas of design, modeling, control, or manufacturing of soft robotics. The candidate should have: PhD degree, excellent academic track record with publications, excellent written and communication skills (in English) and the ability to work in a collaborative team. If the candidates have the good backgrounds of deep learning, we are also very interesting.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), as one of the higher education institutions which enjoy a long history and a world-renowned reputation in China, is a key university directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China and co-constructed by MOE and Shanghai Municipal Government. Through more than 120 years' unremitting efforts, SJTU has become a comprehensive, research-oriented, and internationalized top university in China.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">If you are interesting in this position, please email me (<a href="mailto:guguoying@sjtu.edu.cn">guguoying@sjtu.edu.cn</a>) your resume, cover letter describing research interests and goals, copies of up to three relevant research papers, as well as the information of three references (expected to provide recommendation letters for the next steps). The post will be open until filled.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">All the best,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Guoying Gu, Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Professor</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Soft Robotics and Biodesign lab</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Robotics Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Shanghai Jiao Tong University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Email: <a href="mailto:guguoying@sjtu.edu.cn">guguoying@sjtu.edu.cn</a>;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Web: <a href="http://softrobotics.sjtu.edu.cn/">http://softrobotics.sjtu.edu.cn/</a></span></p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 02:43:38 +0000Guoying Gu23445 at https://imechanica.orghttps://imechanica.org/node/23445#commentshttps://imechanica.org/crss/node/23445Soft wall-climbing robots
https://imechanica.org/node/22948
<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-6 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/76">research</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/9075">soft robotics</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/taxonomy/term/12340">electroadhesion</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/992">dielectric elastomer</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span><strong>Soft wall-climbing robots</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Guoying Gu, Jiang Zou, Ruike Zhao, Xuanhe Zhao and Xiangyang Zhu</em></p>
<p><em>Science Robotics, 2018, Vol. 3, Issue 25, eaat2874</em></p>
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<p><span>Existing robots capable of climbing walls mostly rely on rigid actuators such as electric motors, but soft wall-climbing robots based on muscle-like actuators have not yet been achieved. Here, we report a tethered soft robot capable of climbing walls made of wood, paper, and glass at 90° with a speed of up to 0.75 body length per second and multimodal locomotion, including climbing, crawling, and turning. This soft wallclimbing robot is enabled by (i) dielectric-elastomer artificial muscles that generate fast periodic deformation of the soft robotic body, (ii) electroadhesive feet that give spatiotemporally controlled adhesion of different parts of the robot on the wall, and (iii) a control strategy that synchronizes the body deformation and feet electroadhesion for stable climbing. We further demonstrate that our soft robot could carry a camera to take videos in a vertical tunnel, change its body height to navigate through a confined space, and follow a labyrinth-like planar trajectory. Our soft robot mimicked the vertical climbing capability and the agile adaptive motions exhibited by soft organisms.</span></p>
<p><strong>Link:</strong> <a class="links" title="Soft wall-climbing robots" href="https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aat2874" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aat2874</a></p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:32:53 +0000Guoying Gu22948 at https://imechanica.orghttps://imechanica.org/node/22948#commentshttps://imechanica.org/crss/node/22948Error | iMechanica