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title: Soft Robots

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speakers: 
    - Laure Krayenbuhl: https://a-projectstudio.ch/en/whoweare
    - Douglas Edric Stanley: http://www.abstractmachine.net
    
students:
    - Gabriel Abergel
    - Leyla Baghirli
    - Aurélie Belle
    - Amsatou Diop
    - Laís Kunzendorff
    - Johan Pardo
    
assistants:
    - David Héritier: https://www.dhcv.ch
    - Nicolas Baldran: https://www.hesge.ch/head/annuaire/nicolas-baldran
    
date: 05.05.2020

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# Soft Robots

::: intro

Soft Robots explores new forms of play when reconfigurable robots interact with humans and the world.

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## Bestiary
![JP_Shifter](https://i.imgur.com/AO1wdFa.gif)
![JP_We are one](https://i.imgur.com/csHcq9x.gif)
![JP_Pyramidion](https://i.imgur.com/7oiahMM.gif)
![JP_Grub](https://i.imgur.com/hJnlkyt.gif)
![JP_Joyskin](https://i.imgur.com/TzXiuJD.gif)
![LK_introvert](https://i.imgur.com/h1CWzUd.gif)
![LK_flerting1](https://i.imgur.com/wBWtk1v.gif)
![LK_tatudobem1](https://i.imgur.com/weFUNo3.gif)
![LK_tatudobem2](https://i.imgur.com/NKAyaed.gif)
![LK_flerting2](https://i.imgur.com/e8Ccccp.gif)
![Morphing](https://i.imgur.com/x9btDDC.gif)
![AB_triangularbird](https://i.imgur.com/fSYqsaC.gif)
![AB_ElectroCarpet](https://i.imgur.com/nx6tZfR.gif)
![AB_Aspirator](https://i.imgur.com/Cu20aVp.gif)
![Worm_LB](https://i.imgur.com/1PSqOas.gif)
![Butterfly_LB](https://i.imgur.com/pzsYXEp.gif)
![](https://i.imgur.com/5lwKgi6.gif)


## Credits

Soft Robots is a semester project of Master 1 students of the [Master Media Design](https://www.hesge.ch/head/en/programs-research/master-arts-media-design), [HEAD&nbsp;—&nbsp;Genève](https://www.hesge.ch/head) in collaboration with the EPFL [Reconfigurable Robotics Lab](https://www.epfl.ch/labs/rrl/) and its director [Jamie Paik](https://people.epfl.ch/jamie.paik). The project leads are [Laure Krayenbuhl](https://a-projectstudio.ch/en/whatwedo) & [Douglas Edric Stanley](http://www.abstractmachine.net), with assistance from [Nicolas Baldran](https://www.hesge.ch/head/annuaire/nicolas-baldran) & [David Héritier](https://www.dhcv.ch). Students: Gabriel Abergel, Leyla Baghirli, Aurélie Belle, Amsatou Diop, Laïs Kunzendorff, Johan Pardo.
