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SUMMARY:FlowIO Platform: Making Soft Robotics Seamless and Accessible for E
 veryone
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nFlowIO Platform: Making Soft Robotics Seamless and Access
 ible for Everyone\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nAli
  Shtarbanov is an HCI Researcher\, System designer\, and Ph.D. candidate a
 t MIT Media Lab. He develops open-source platforms\, tools\, and other ena
 bling technologies that empower researchers\, designers\, artists\, and ma
 kers with new technological opportunities to rapidly bring projects and id
 eas to life. His current work focuses on developing and deploying novel to
 ols and resources for soft robotics and programmable materials to make pro
 totyping and innovation in those fields more seamless and more accessible.
  Ali is the inventor of the FlowIO platform which is currently being used 
 by over a dozen HCI and robotics researchers in 10 countries. His prior re
 search was on multimodal interactive interfaces and mid-air haptic feedbac
 k.Ali’s works have been published in CHI\, UIST\, SIGGRAPH\, and have be
 en featured in major exhibitions and news outlets. He has won several desi
 gn and research awards including Gold Medal at the CHI’21 Student Resear
 ch Competition by ACM\, iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD\, Best Poster at IROS\, A
 ’Design Award\, Hackaday Prize\, and others. Ali has also served as a ju
 dge and reviewer for various venues including Hacking Arts\, IEEE HAVE\, a
 nd MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 Europe. He holds two Bachelor’s
  degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University – 
 both Summa Cum Laude\, a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction f
 rom MIT\, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. also from MIT.\nAbout the Ev
 ent:\nPlatforms like Arduino and Raspberry Pi democratized electronics and
  portable computing. FlowIO aims to liberate in a similar way programmable
  materials and soft robotics. FlowIO is a miniature pneumatics development
  platform with a software toolkit for control\, actuation\, and sensing of
  soft programmable materials\, enabling researchers\, artists\, and makers
  to unleash their creativity and to realize their ideas quickly and easily
 . The modular hardware design of FlowIO makes it suitable for projects wit
 h a wide variety of pressure\, flow rate\, and sensing needs. While a comp
 lete software toolkit — featuring mobile and desktop graphical user inte
 rfaces\, Bluetooth controls\, and APIs for Arduino and JavaScript — enab
 les users from any technical and nontechnical background to start using th
 e platform within seconds. FlowIO is made available to the world under a n
 ew non-profit distribution model\, where it is supported by donations and 
 provided free of charge for noncommercial use to approved users who can do
  can do amazing and inspiring projects with FlowIO. In this talk\, he will
  present the vision behind FlowIO\; some technical details about the platf
 orm\; the distribution model he developed and the philosophy behind it\; a
  few application examples provided by users\; as well as the broader overa
 rching vision\, called SoftRobotics.IO\, of which FlowIO is one part.\n40 
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 botics-seamless-and-accessible-for-everyone/
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LOCATION:Library\, Dyson Building of Design Engineering\, South Kensington 
 Campus\, Imperial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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