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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Hello NAPPNers,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">There will be a webinar tomorrow morning at 9am EDT (UTC-4) potentially of interest to this community. See below for details. Best, Amy
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Ali Leylavi Shoushtari from Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands, will present, “Soft Agro-food Robotics,” on Wednesday, June 23, at 15:00 CEST (UTC +2).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">For easy conversion to your time zone, see the converter from timeanddate.com <http://timeanddate.com>: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AgRA+webinar%3A+Ali+Leylavi+Shoushtari+presents+on+June+23%2C+2021&iso=20210623T15&p1=3583&ah=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">The webinar will be provided through Zoom, please register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HlvLL1GVTwubNaU1cbCnBQ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Alternatively, you may view through YouTube live, which has a lower<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">bandwidth requirement than Zoom. To get the link, check the technical<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">committee's Twitter account up to 15 minutes prior to the start of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">webinar: https://twitter.com/AgRoboticsTC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Soft Robotics is a young yet promising field of research aimed to enhanced robots’ safety and adaptability while keeping them simple and affordable. In agro-food robotics, crops are usually
delicate, having high variability (i.e. different shape, size, surface texture/roughness and softness) and are affected by environmental conditions e.g. moisture and dust which makes them challenging to handle using conventional rigid robots. The above-mentioned
features of soft robotics can significantly contribute to the robots’ versatility, making it a perfect solution for the agro-food robotic challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">To achieve this goal, I try to answer the question of how and to what extent soft robotics can enhance the versatility of robots specially in grasping and manipulation. In particular, I would
present two main approaches toward soft versatile robots i.e. engineering-based and bio-inspired design of novel soft robotic components with some research examples. For instance I will present some works on morphing grippers that can passively adapt to the
object with complex shapes together with an active adhesive interface for safely handling delicate crops.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">All details, including the time zone converter, technical details, and presenter biography available at the AgRA TC webpage:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><a href="http://ieeeagra.com/events/webinar-june-23-2021/">http://ieeeagra.com/events/webinar-june-23-2021/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Amy Tabb PhD<br>
Research Engineer</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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