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