LM2016 Awards

The 5th annual Living Machines Conference Award cerimony was held at Dynamic Earth on Friday 22nd July.
We would like to thank the LM2016 sponsors who made the event possible and the LM2016 participants for their committment and dedication in electing the winners.
The prize consisted of a Scottish Quaich offered by Heriot Watt University, while Wiley offered a book voucher and a journal subscription for the journals Advanced Materials and Advanced Healthcare Materials, and the journals Advanced Materials Technologies and Advanced Biosystems (NEW!)

TALKS

1st BEST TALK

Thrust-Assisted Perching and Climbing for a Bioinspired UAV
Morgan Pope, Mark Cutkosky
Stanford University, CA, USA 

2nd BEST TALK

Aplysia californica as a Novel Source of Material for Biohybrid Robots and Organic Machines
Victoria Webster, Katherine Chapin, Emma Hawley, Jill Patel, Ozan Akkus, Hillel Chiel, Roger Quinn
Case Wester Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio USA

3rd BEST TALK

A bio-Inspired model for visual collision avoidance on a hexapod walking robot
Hanno Gerd Meyer, Olivier J. N. Bertrand, Jan Paskarbeit, Jens Peter Lindemann, Axel Schneider, Martin Egelhaaf
University of Bielefeld, Germany

BEST POSTERS

1st BEST POSTER

Sensing contact constraints in a worm-like robot by detecting load anomalies
Akhil Kandhari, Andrew Horchler, George Zucker, Kathryn Daltorio, Hillel Chiel, Roger Quinn
Case Wester Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio USA

2nd BEST POSTER

Principal Component Analysis of Two-dimensional Flow Vector Fields on Human Facial Skin for Efficient Robot Face Design
Nobuyuki Ota, Hisashi Ishihara, Minoru Asada
Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering, Japan

3rd BEST POSTER

Stick(y) Insects -Evaluation of Static Stability for Bioinspired Leg Coordination in Robotics
Jan Paskarbeit, Marc Otto, Malte Schilling, Axel Schneider
University of Bielefeld, Germany