Bridging Scales in Robotics for Autonomous Embodied Systems

This seminar will be the third GRS dedicated to Robotics. This year’s theme is “Robotics Across Scales”, examining robotic systems across multiple dimensions – including spatial, temporal, and properties-related. For instance, from nanostructures to megastructures, from stiff to soft, from slow to rapid movements, and from artificial to biological, the field demands innovative ideas and solutions that bridge scales in various domains. This seminar will foster discussions around sub-themes such as self-regulation, fabrication, scalability, modularity, autonomy, and complexity – concepts fundamental to understanding and advancing robotics across scales.

We aim to bring together innovative, interdisciplinary thinkers to share ideas about the most pressing and meaningful problems that should be studied in the next decade to transform how robots interact with humans and their environment across scales. Building a network of young roboticists, engineers, soft matter physicists, and biologists fluent in cross-cutting research themes will create a foundation for advancing the field far into the future with profound implications for the field of robotics.

The seminar will provide a unique opportunity for young researchers from all over the world to get to know each other and discuss exciting ideas around the rapidly changing, multidisciplinary scientific field that is Robotics.