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Alberto Comoretto

@albertocomoretto.bsky.social

Postdoc at KU Leuven. I research squishy machines and autonomous soft matter 🦠 🤖 Inflatables 🎈 fluidics 🫧 mechanical instabilities ⛓️‍💥 and self-oscillators 🌀 https://www.albertocomoretto.com/

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Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech@bhamlalab.bsky.social · last yr.

Zooming in, we saw that the worm bends its body so much that it can form a kink at the bend! Kinks are usually detrimental in structures. For example, Kinked straws are useless. But this nematode can reversibly kink its body and keep jumping!

Lucia Stein-Montalvo@lsmontal.bsky.social · last yr.

🌬️ 𝘒𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘪 𝘥’𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘢: 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. Our installation, Kirigami d’Aria, is on view as part of the biennial architecture exhibition Time Space Existence organized by the European Cultural Centre.

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Alberto Comoretto@albertocomoretto.bsky.social · last yr.

And our wobbly robot is on Veritasium! 🤩 🎈 🎬 Interview with Veritasium: www.instagram.com/reel/DKKfd36... 📝 Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org 🧪 @veritasium.bsky.social ⚛️

Physical synchronization of soft self-oscillating limbs for fast and autonomous locomotion

Animals achieve robust locomotion by offloading regulation from the brain to physical couplings within the body. In contrast, locomotion in artificial systems often depends on centralized processors. ...

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Kate Devlin@drkatedevlin.bsky.social · last yr.

Closing out my second talk at the RoboSoft workshops with this: take robot joy seriously! Examples include EMFcamp, Cat Royale, and sextech hack. Fantastic bunch of people doing cool things. Feels like my brain has had a good spring clean.

A MANIFESTO FOR SERIOUS JOY.
Robert McNees@mcnees.bsky.social · last yr.

Engineer and photographer Harold Edgerton was born #OTD in 1903. He pioneered various forms of high-speed photography using specialized cameras, strobe lighting, and other techniques. You’ve probably seen many of the images he created! 🧪 ⚛️ 📸 Images: MIT; H. Edgerton

Edgerton seated on the floor amidst various pieces of photo and electronics equipment. He is wearing a white shirt, diagonal striped tie, and dark pants in this black and white photo. Various strobe lights are visible, ad well as an oscilloscope. There are cables dangling from large pieces of electronics. Edgerton is not smiling; he is just looking at the camera.A high speed photo of a bullet passing through an apple. The apple is mounted on a metal rod and the bullet has just exited the apple. There are large sprays of apple coming from the entrance and exit points. The apple is red, with a yellow patch around the stem which is pointed at the camera.Another well-known Edgerton photo of a bullet bisecting a playing card. The card is the king of diamonds, and it has been ripped in half along its width by the bullet passing through. The king is facing the camera.Edgertons famous photo of a splash of white liquid, probably milk, in a red bowl. The splash is shaped like a crown, with rounded blobs forming and separating at the end of the spikes. A small drop hangs in mid-air above the splash. It is not clear from the photo whether this is another drop falling down, or a small drop that was sent back upwards when the original drop hit.