Jessica Banks: Real furniture from unreal visions

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Jessica Banks is an inventor, roboticist, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of RockPaperRobot, a company specializing in responsive objects that expand the functional and aesthetic versatility of traditional decor. From levitating and transformable tables to robotic chandeliers, RPR aligns time-honored craftsmanship with progressive engineering. She is also a creative and technical consultant on major advertising campaigns, global initiative development for international corporations, and robotic designs for high visibility clients. 

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Carmel Majidi: Soft Robots

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Carmel Majidi

Carmel Majidi studies the next generation of biologically-compatible robots, assistive medical devices and electronics.

These “soft-matter technologies” include systems that are elastically deformable and adapt their functionality to the changing demands of their operator and environment.

Majidi was a post-doctoral Fellow at both Princeton and Harvard University and has been published in International Journal of Robotics Research, Soft Robotics, and Lab on a Chip, among others. Majidi addresses the emerging challenges of soft robotics through a unique combination of rapid prototyping, soft-lithography microfabrication and theoretical insights from solid mechanics.

more at: Soft Machines Lab