[Applause]
science has always been the goal of
go beyond the borders of the
knowledge of knowledge revealing mysteries
of life and the world around us
curiosity, passion, discovery of the unknown
represent the engine that drives it
scientist go in search of the new
the scientist is indeed the one who
observe the world from different angles
no limits are placed on knowing how to dare and
experiment with new things but above all
asking the world big questions
of my research and that of the
bio robotics is expired
we take inspiration from nature for
snatch the secrets and translate them
more new technology machines
sustainable and useful to man
we live in fact in the era of robots that
to date they realize most of the
assets of use of modern societies
but that more and more will move from the
world of factories in the real world in
our world sharing our spaces
but how far we really are from one
daily and mass use and robots
as it happened for the technologies
information and communication
in the last 20 years of the 900 when
we have witnessed a passage from
university laboratories at factories
to a computer in every home and more
recently has a smartphone in every
pocket
well, the robots are already in our midst
but they have different forms than those
we are used to seeing in the movies of
science fiction where automata and replicants
from abilities superior to human ones
represent a serious threat to the
survival of humanity itself
the robots will be in our homes there
will help in domestic activities and
assistance for the elderly will be useful
in monitoring the food environment
for quality improvement
of health life more and more
will be used in the medical field ad
example in the development of new ones
endoscopes but also micro robots that yes
they will move inside our body
for autonomous machines diagnosis and therapy
which will drastically reduce the number
of road accidents saving lives
human beings and giving us back part of ours
time
but the real revolution in this field
is given by the robotics inspired by the
nature the living organisms are
adapted to live in changing environments e
dynamic must put in place the
strategies in case of danger in the
strategies to survive succeed
perceive the surrounding environment and all
these characteristics are
absolutely useful represent the
our specifications for designing robots
tomorrow the robots that will live together with
we
in fact, many are already bio robots
inspired by the laboratories of
research from around the world and from companies
robots that are able to fly
run swim walking
most of these robots are
inspired by the world of animals come
called soul loi of or humanoids when
the model is the human being therefore
we study the human being to achieve
humanoid robots that more and more
they will share our spaces there
will help in the care of the elderly
but they also represent platforms
for the neuro scientists to study the
behavioral development model
of man but why stop at
animals for the first time on the level
world I have my group
thought of plants
as a model in robotics to develop
of new technologies of new ones
machines we call plan toy of
in fact the plants are entrusted with the
survival on earth through the
oxygen production represent
almost all of the biomass on the
our planet has colonized everyone
ecosystems
however it was not easy to do
accept to the scientific community
the idea that a plant could
represent a model and robotics e
very much this is due
the common opinion that we all have
plants against plants
they are passive organisms they do not communicate
they do not move do not interact with
the environment with other living beings
there is a kind of prejudice in the
comparisons of the plants that found their own
bases in antiquity aristotle in his
treatise de anima claimed that le
plants do not have capacity
sensory because I’m not able to
move the same large linne carlo
scientist to whom we owe the
modern classification of organisms
living nurtured a strong prejudice in the
comparisons of plants and john ellis
another known naturalist of that era
described the dion came out the la
Venus flytrap like a perfect one
trap miniature mice carlo
linnaeus answered the idea that a plant
be able to trap and kill
insects and absolutely against the order
natural wanted by god
impossible to reverse the status of the
things and accept that a vegetable can
feed on an animal then you understand that
the prejudice influences ours
opinions
our behavior in all fields
including the scientific one by limiting them
frontiers of knowledge
light the same jade darwin grande
scientist was a victim of prejudice and
he was forced to change the title of the
his treat from carnivorous plants a
Insectivorous plants to avoid them
criticism of the scientific community that
he did not consider this denomination ethical but
plants move plants do it
in an absolutely efficient way
they do at speeds that often do not
they are perceptible by our eye and
so thanks to new technologies
above all based on time techniques
laps you can speed up the
movement and therefore now fully enjoy
of the beauty of the movements of the
plants
the plants perceive the environment it
they do through distributed capacity
sensory plants communicate
communicate with other plants for example
in case of danger they communicate with
animals mushrooms bacteria
all these features and many
others, for example, properties
mechanical materials of plant materials
strategies that implement for
reduce energy consumption during i
movements but also the strategies of
adaptation to the environment all these
characteristics are being studied and
we want to translate them into technology in
we have focused on the particular
roots
the roots are absolutely
fascinating structures that move in
a very complex heterogeneous environment
like the soil where pressure and friction
they are already elevated in a few centimeters but
the roots manage to move because
they grow up from the tip the part
more distal than the trunk grow
for addition of cells then they absorb
water from the ground and push only the
the root tip is the rest of the
root does not move in the soil so it does not
there is friction and at the level of the points
the year roots
sophisticated sensory capabilities
they can perceive the gravity environment
light chemical substance temperatures e
they have a behavior associated with
these sensory capacities that in
biology we call tropism then the
roots move growing on one side
or on the other
follow a stimulus move away from one
stimulus and we tried to translate
exactly this concept of
growth as a new paradigm in the
robotic a root is a plant for
move from one point to another can
just grow up
so we tried to translate
this concept of the movement
in the robotics therefore also the
our robot is able to grow up for
adding material and doing it because
in the tip there is a motor that pulls a
thermoplastic filament therefore that
it changes its viscous properties when
it is heated and the new layer adheres
to the previous one then the robots create
its structure
the direction of growth is given by
sensors that are integrated into the tip
so also our robot like the
natural root can move
growing up and moving away from
an environmental stimulus to curve the
robot deposits more material from one
part of the other then
implements what are called
differential growth just like the
natural roots but many are
movements in reality we can
study many of these in plants
movements are totally passive ie
they do not move, there is no metabolism
inside but these structures yes
they move thanks to the structure of the
material inside the wall
cell phone of these plants and the
capacity of these materials
interact with the surrounding environment e
above all variation
deserves and temperature therefore of the
materials that absorb and release
water and is material that depending on
how they are distributed they drive the
movement of plants
then a pinecone that opens and closes
a seed of maple flying a seed of
oat that penetrates into the soil
all these movements are movements and
absolutely dead structures but that
they keep moving thanks
interaction with the environment
surrounding
so our idea was that of
translate these materials into structures
artificial that similarly natural
they move thanks to the interaction with
the environment therefore a robotic hand for
grab some objects from the structures
that all these open and close
facilities could be useful tomorrow
also as an artificial skin of the
our robots that perceive the environment
reduce reducing the complexity of the
control and above all consumption
energetic
this is a view of the plant or ed
the plant or and is also in his
appearance similar to a plant to a
trunk inside which we put the
material to be deposited in the roots a
a series of branches with these materials
that interact with the environment
surrounding and a series of roots that
as I said, they grow moving
moving away from stimuli
environmental because the robot independently
in complete autonomy he manages to move
in the environment looking for substances
of interest therefore for example the
water research is a tropism
positive the robot moves towards it
stimulus avoids however the obstacles like
they make natural roots have gods
tactile sensors at the tip when you are there
of the stones
or they can not penetrate the
plant turns around the obstacle then
growth and other aspects
fundamental for the first time a robot
he is able to create his own body
and to adapt to the surrounding environment
this is the real revolution that
we want to bring into the world of
robotics
but what do you need a planetoid depending on
of the sensors we introduce into the
point the robot, for example, could
to serve for monitoring
of the environment could go to the
research of water of substances
dangerous as radon pollutants
absolutely dangerous for health
human but could also be useful
in space for example looking for
new substances in planets other than
earth but what is important for them
plants when they are practically anchored
to the surface then allow the
plant to grow the anchor is a
open problem in robotics then
it could also be useful in the field
space in the future could be
also useful as a new endoscope
because this ability to grow
inside the fabrics without creating
damage to our body ai
Our organs could be right
a new frontier then releasing
for example substances such as drugs or
looking for targets
medical interest then what
we can see looking around in the
world that surrounds us and perhaps not
we are just so far from a use of
daily mass of the robots
there are many challenges that still exist
they await above all in the development of
more efficient robots but the real challenge
is to understand which are the real ones
opportunities and real responsibilities
in the development of these robots
especially predict the impact that
these robots and will have in the future in the
improvement of the quality of life
then personally what I have
understood by the development of the tojo clan is
that good ideas alone are not enough
critical analysis is also needed
perseverance determination but also
collaboration the enhancement of the
diversity different disciplines that you
combine in multi disciplinarity
which represents the true value the
progress as we can go beyond the
knowledge to science also has a
another fundamental role in society
to train the new generations
new talents open their minds
free them from prejudice because new
knowledge of new progress
we are increasingly synonymous with
respect for the other of the different and of
other life forms thank you
[Applause]
science has always been the goal of
go beyond the borders of the
knowledge of knowledge revealing mysteries
of life and the world around us
curiosity, passion, discovery of the unknown
represent the engine that drives it
scientist go in search of the new
the scientist is indeed the one who
observe the world from different angles
no limits are placed on knowing how to dare and
experiment with new things but above all
asking the world big questions
of my research and that of the
bio robotics is expired
we take inspiration from nature for
snatch the secrets and translate them
more new technology machines
sustainable and useful to man
we live in fact in the era of robots that
to date they realize most of the
assets of use of modern societies
but that more and more will move from the
world of factories in the real world in
our world sharing our spaces
but how far we really are from one
daily and mass use and robots
as it happened for the technologies
information and communication
in the last 20 years of the 900 when
we have witnessed a passage from
university laboratories at factories
to a computer in every home and more
recently has a smartphone in every
well, the robots are already in our midst
but they have different forms than those
we are used to seeing in the movies of
science fiction where automata and replicants
from abilities superior to human ones
represent a serious threat to the
survival of humanity itself
the robots will be in our homes there
will help in domestic activities and
assistance for the elderly will be useful
in monitoring the food environment
for quality improvement
of health life more and more
will be used in the medical field ad
example in the development of new ones
endoscopes but also micro robots that yes
they will move inside our body
for autonomous machines diagnosis and therapy
which will drastically reduce the number
of road accidents saving lives
human beings and giving us back part of ours
time
but the real revolution in this field
is given by the robotics inspired by the
nature the living organisms are
adapted to live in changing environments e
dynamic must put in place the
strategies in case of danger in the
strategies to survive succeed
perceive the surrounding environment and all
these characteristics are
absolutely useful represent the
our specifications for designing robots
tomorrow the robots that will live together with
we
in fact, many are already bio robots
inspired by the laboratories of
research from around the world and from companies
robots that are able to fly
run swim walking
most of these robots are
inspired by the world of animals come
called soul loi of or humanoids when
the model is the human being therefore
we study the human being to achieve
humanoid robots that more and more
they will share our spaces there
will help in the care of the elderly
but they also represent platforms
for the neuro scientists to study the
behavioral development model
of man but why stop at
animals for the first time on the level
world I have my group
thought of plants
as a model in robotics to develop
of new technologies of new ones
machines we call plan toy of
in fact the plants are entrusted with the
survival on earth through the
oxygen production represent
almost all of the biomass on the
our planet has colonized everyone
ecosystems
however it was not easy to do
accept to the scientific community
the idea that a plant could
represent a model and robotics e
very much this is due
the common opinion that we all have
plants against plants
they are passive organisms they do not communicate
they do not move do not interact with
the environment with other living beings
there is a kind of prejudice in the
comparisons of the plants that found their own
bases in antiquity aristotle in his
treatise de anima claimed that le
plants do not have capacity
sensory because I’m not able to
move the same large linne carlo
scientist to whom we owe the
modern classification of organisms
living nurtured a strong prejudice in the
comparisons of plants and john ellis
another known naturalist of that era
described the dion came out the la
Venus flytrap like a perfect one
trap miniature mice carlo
linnaeus answered the idea that a plant
be able to trap and kill
insects and absolutely against the order
natural wanted by god
impossible to reverse the status of the
things and accept that a vegetable can
feed on an animal then you understand that
the prejudice influences ours
opinions
our behavior in all fields
including the scientific one by limiting them
frontiers of knowledge
light the same jade darwin grande
scientist was a victim of prejudice and
he was forced to change the title of the
his treat from carnivorous plants a
Insectivorous plants to avoid them
criticism of the scientific community that
he did not consider this denomination ethical but
plants move plants do it
in an absolutely efficient way
they do at speeds that often do not
they are perceptible by our eye and
so thanks to new technologies
above all based on time techniques
laps you can speed up the
movement and therefore now fully enjoy
of the beauty of the movements of the
plants
the plants perceive the environment it
they do through distributed capacity
sensory plants communicate
communicate with other plants for example
in case of danger they communicate with
animals mushrooms bacteria
all these features and many
others, for example, properties
mechanical materials of plant materials
strategies that implement for
reduce energy consumption during i
movements but also the strategies of
adaptation to the environment all these
characteristics are being studied and
we want to translate them into technology in
we have focused on the particular
roots
the roots are absolutely
fascinating structures that move in
a very complex heterogeneous environment
like the soil where pressure and friction
they are already elevated in a few centimeters but
the roots manage to move because
they grow up from the tip the part
more distal than the trunk grow
for addition of cells then they absorb
water from the ground and push only the
the root tip is the rest of the
root does not move in the soil so it does not
there is friction and at the level of the points
the year roots
sophisticated sensory capabilities
they can perceive the gravity environment
light chemical substance temperatures e
they have a behavior associated with
these sensory capacities that in
biology we call tropism then the
roots move growing on one side
or on the other
follow a stimulus move away from one
stimulus and we tried to translate
exactly this concept of
growth as a new paradigm in the
robotic a root is a plant for
move from one point to another can
just grow up
so we tried to translate
this concept of the movement
in the robotics therefore also the
our robot is able to grow up for
adding material and doing it because
in the tip there is a motor that pulls a
thermoplastic filament therefore that
it changes its viscous properties when
it is heated and the new layer adheres
to the previous one then the robots create
its structure
the direction of growth is given by
sensors that are integrated into the tip
so also our robot like the
natural root can move
growing up and moving away from
an environmental stimulus to curve the
robot deposits more material from one
part of the other then
implements what are called
differential growth just like the
natural roots but many are
movements in reality we can
study many of these in plants
movements are totally passive ie
they do not move, there is no metabolism
inside but these structures yes
they move thanks to the structure of the
material inside the wall
cell phone of these plants and the
capacity of these materials
interact with the surrounding environment e
above all variation
deserves and temperature therefore of the
materials that absorb and release
water and is material that depending on
how they are distributed they drive the
movement of plants
then a pinecone that opens and closes
a seed of maple flying a seed of
oat that penetrates into the soil
all these movements are movements and
absolutely dead structures but that
they keep moving thanks
interaction with the environment
surrounding
so our idea was that of
translate these materials into structures
artificial that similarly natural
they move thanks to the interaction with
the environment therefore a robotic hand for
grab some objects from the structures
that all these open and close
facilities could be useful tomorrow
also as an artificial skin of the
our robots that perceive the environment
reduce reducing the complexity of the
control and above all consumption
energetic
this is a view of the plant or ed
the plant or and is also in his
appearance similar to a plant to a
trunk inside which we put the
material to be deposited in the roots a
a series of branches with these materials
that interact with the environment
surrounding and a series of roots that
as I said, they grow moving
moving away from stimuli
environmental because the robot independently
in complete autonomy he manages to move
in the environment looking for substances
of interest therefore for example the
water research is a tropism
positive the robot moves towards it
stimulus avoids however the obstacles like
they make natural roots have gods
tactile sensors at the tip when you are there
of the stones
or they can not penetrate the
plant turns around the obstacle then
growth and other aspects
fundamental for the first time a robot
he is able to create his own body
and to adapt to the surrounding environment
this is the real revolution that
we want to bring into the world of
robotics
but what do you need a planetoid depending on
of the sensors we introduce into the
point the robot, for example, could
to serve for monitoring
of the environment could go to the
research of water of substances
dangerous as radon pollutants
absolutely dangerous for health
human but could also be useful
in space for example looking for
new substances in planets other than
earth but what is important for them
plants when they are practically anchored
to the surface then allow the
plant to grow the anchor is a
open problem in robotics then
it could also be useful in the field
space in the future could be
also useful as a new endoscope
because this ability to grow
inside the fabrics without creating
damage to our body ai
Our organs could be right
a new frontier then releasing
for example substances such as drugs or
looking for targets
medical interest then what
we can see looking around in the
world that surrounds us and perhaps not
we are just so far from a use of
daily mass of the robots
there are many challenges that still exist
they await above all in the development of
more efficient robots but the real challenge
is to understand which are the real ones
opportunities and real responsibilities
in the development of these robots
especially predict the impact that
these robots and will have in the future in the
improvement of the quality of life
then personally what I have
understood by the development of the tojo clan is
that good ideas alone are not enough
critical analysis is also needed
perseverance determination but also
collaboration the enhancement of the
diversity different disciplines that you
combine in multi disciplinarity
which represents the true value the
progress as we can go beyond the
knowledge to science also has a
another fundamental role in society
to train the new generations
new talents open their minds
free them from prejudice because new
knowledge of new progress
we are increasingly synonymous with
respect for the other of the different and of
other life forms thank you
[Applause]
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