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Come and visit us next week during Ars Electronica Festival 2020 (Sep 9-13) in Open Innovation Center at JKU! Looking forward to seeing you all!

Ars Electronica Festival 2020 In Kepler’s GardensEine globale Reise zur Vermessung der ‚neuen‘ WeltEine Reise, bei der nicht wir uns auf den Weg machen, sondern unsere Ideen und Projekte, die ein globales Netzwerk aufspannen, in dem wir uns versammeln, um zu diskutieren, was zu tun ist. Autonomy - DemocracyEcol

"The robots are coming, and you may be able to eat them"
Check out this interview with Melanie and Florian about our newly published research on soft, biodegradable and edible materials for robotics and wearables! https://youtu.be/ekdRTL0Gx-k

Check out the full article here:
https://rdcu.be/b5Nyr

Austrian researchers develop edible robotic elephant trunk Subscribe to our channel! rupt.ly/subscribe The robots are coming, and you may be able to eat them. Researchers at Austria's Johannes Kepler University (JKU)...

Sharks and flowers made using soft electromagnetic actuators (SEMAs)! Read more about these amazing shape morphing system made out of silicone and liquid metal in the article by Mao Guoyong in Science Advances! Congratulations to Guoyong and all the co-authors!

Find the full article here:

Soft electromagnetic actuators Rigid electromagnetic actuators serve our society in a myriad of ways for more than 200 years. However, their bulky nature restricts close collaboration with humans. Here, we introduce soft electromagnetic actuators (SEMAs) by replacing solid metal coils with liquid-metal channels embedded in elasto...

Check out this wonderful article written by Martin Kaltenrunner and Doris Danninger in Advanced Science News discussing user-friendly medical wearables!

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/magnets-making-medical-wearables-user-friendly/

Corresponding article: Gerald Kettlgruber, et al. ‘Stretch‐Safe: Magnetic Connectors for Modular Stretchable Electronics.’ Advanced Intelligent Systems (2020). DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202000065

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aisy.202000065