African Robotics Unit @UnitAfrican
A grouping of robotics researchers at the University of Cape Town who study problems that we, as Africans, are uniquely positioned to solve. aru.uct.ac.za University of Cape Town Joined March 2021-
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Lizards' astounding Crash-Landing on Tree compared with ballistic Soft Robot perching bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/posts/geckos-a… #biomechanics #biomimetics #biorobotics @SICB_DCB_DVM
Body Caudal Undulation with Soft Sensors & Soft Artificial Muscles. In wake of @SICB_ presentation: academic.oup.com/icb/advance-ar… Collaboration w/ colleagues @LabLiao, @ET_Lunsford, Akanyeti, Kovac, Park. @ICB_journal #biomechanics #biomimetics #biorobotics @SICB_DCB_DVM #SoftRobotics
Here's how to represent the multiplication of two numbers on the real line
Meet Shanna Swart, an NRF-funded PhD candidate and enzymologist in Chemical Engineering at CEBER (UCT) and part of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Catalysis (@CoE_cchange) team: bit.ly/3yYUYt1. #WomensMonth2021 #WomenInSTEM
Catch us live on Instagram this Friday 13h30 GMT+2 as we chat to A/Prof. Patel who is the Director at the ARU.
🦎skydiving in vertical wind tunnel use Aero Tails for turning. Active roboTail🪂@MPI_IS 🙏🏻 to @McGowanBiomech for inviting me to give a Symposium presentation at @SICB_ with invited paper: doi.org/10.1093/icb/ic… @ICB_journal #biomechanics #biomimetics #biorobotics @SICB_DCB_DVM
Tails, Flails, and Sails: Maneuverability and Stability in 🐈Cheetahs🐾 and arm flailing in people. Collaboration with good colleague Amir Patel and Stacey Shield @UnitAfrican. academic.oup.com/icb/advance-ar…
What does the famous squirrel parkour in @MarkRober's backyard tell us about biology and robotics? To find out, watch the full video youtu.be/sHJWkX9Z5Ss and check out our new paper on 'Righting of Squirrels in Unexpected Falls' in @ICB_journal! @MPI_IS doi.org/10.1093/icb/ic…
Over 70 years ago this month Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory w/"A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/2H0ZxvR
Please come join us this coming Wednesday (07 July) at 13h00 on Instagram Live (@african.robotics.unit) as we talk to Dr. Paul Amayo, Principal Investigator in the lab, about his work and life in the lab.
Engineers have designed a face mask that can diagnose the wearer with Covid-19 within about 90 minutes. The masks are embedded with tiny, disposable sensors that could also be incorporated into clothing or adapted to detect other viruses. mitsha.re/iuYe50FkZTG
Please come join us this Friday at 13h00 on Instagram Live (@african.robotics.unit) as we talk to Stacey Shield, PhD student in the lab, about her work and life in the lab.
Wow, <3K for a very capable quadruped.
Wow, <3K for a very capable quadruped.
Happy birthday to Web inventor & MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee! Things besides the WWW that didn’t exist before TBL: Apple Google Facebook YouTube Instagram Netflix Uber Spotify Bitcoin Venmo Most technologies we use today.
Thirty years of Computer Vision research at work here. While the public does not hear much about basic science research, it’s the generations of scientists and their passionate work that bring moments like this to live 🌹👍🙏
Thirty years of Computer Vision research at work here. While the public does not hear much about basic science research, it’s the generations of scientists and their passionate work that bring moments like this to live 🌹👍🙏

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