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Overview

Fumiya Iida is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on engineering, with a notable concentration on subfields such as biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, control and systems engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist's work centers around several key topics including soft robotics and applications, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, robot manipulation and learning, modular robots and swarm intelligence, tactile and sensory interactions, robotic locomotion and control, and reinforcement learning in robotics.

Fumiya Iida has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues including:

  • IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Science Robotics

Recent significant papers authored by or involving Fumiya Iida include:

  • "Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots," 2020, Science Robotics
  • "A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics," 2021, Materials Today
  • "Towards enduring autonomous robots via embodied energy," 2022, Nature
  • "Processing of Self-Healing Polymers for Soft Robotics," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Self-healing ionic gelatin/glycerol hydrogels for strain sensing applications," 2022, NPG Asia Materials

Fumiya Iida collaborates frequently with other researchers including Thomas George Thuruthel, Josie Hughes, Arsen Abdulali, Leone Costi, and David Hardman.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to academic books, with one publication with Springer Science+Business Media titled "Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems" published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics

    Rolf Pfeifer;Max Lungarella;Fumiya Iida;Fumiya Iida

  • Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots

    Benjamin Shih;Dylan S. Shah;Jinxing Li;Thomas George Thuruthel

  • Soft manipulators and grippers: A review

    Josie Hughes;Utku Culha;Fabio Giardina;Fabian Guenther

  • The challenges ahead for bio-inspired 'soft' robotics

    Rolf Pfeifer;Max Lungarella;Fumiya Iida

  • Stable dynamic walking over uneven terrain

    Ian R Manchester;Uwe Mettin;Fumiya Iida;Russ Tedrake

  • Soft Robotics: Challenges and Perspectives

    Fumiya Iida;Cecilia Laschi

  • A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics

    Seppe Terryn;Jakob Langenbach;Ellen Roels;Joost Brancart

  • Controllable and reversible tuning of material rigidity for robot applications

    Liyu Wang;Yang Yang;Yonghua Chen;Carmel Majidi

  • New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems

    Rolf Pfeifer;Fumiya Iida;Josh Bongard

  • Bipedal walking and running with spring-like biarticular muscles.

    Fumiya Iida;Fumiya Iida;Jürgen Rummel;André Seyfarth

  • Morphological computation for adaptive behavior and cognition

    Rolf Pfeifer;Fumiya Iida;Gabriel Gómez

  • A field-tested robotic harvesting system for iceberg lettuce.

    Simon Birrell;Josephine Hughes;Julia Y Cai;Fumiya Iida

  • Processing of Self-Healing Polymers for Soft Robotics.

    Ellen Roels;Seppe Terryn;Fumiya Iida;Anton W. Bosman

  • Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Trends and Challenges

    Rolf Pfeifer;Fumiya Iida

  • Twitching in sensorimotor development from sleeping rats to robots.

    Mark S. Blumberg;Hugo Gravato Marques;Hugo Gravato Marques;Fumiya Iida

  • Cognition from the bottom up: on biological inspiration, body morphology, and soft materials

    Rolf Pfeifer;Fumiya Iida;Max Lungarella

  • Exploiting body dynamics for controlling a running quadruped robot

    F. Iida;G. Gomez;R. Pfeifer

  • Finding Resonance: Adaptive Frequency Oscillators for Dynamic Legged Locomotion

    Jonas Buchli;Fumiya Iida;Auke Ijspeert

  • Whole body emotion expressions for KOBIAN humanoid robot — preliminary experiments with different Emotional patterns —

    Massimiliano Zecca;Yu Mizoguchi;K. Endo;F. Iida

  • Morphological Evolution of Physical Robots through Model-Free Phenotype Development.

    Luzius Brodbeck;Simon Hauser;Fumiya Iida;Fumiya Iida

  • Embodied Artificial Intelligence

    Fumiya Iida;Rolf Pfeifer;Luc Steels;Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Cecilia Laschi
Cecilia Laschi National University of Singapore
Atsuo Takanishi
Atsuo Takanishi Waseda University
Auke Jan Ijspeert
Auke Jan Ijspeert École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jonas Buchli
Jonas Buchli DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University
Carmel Majidi
Carmel Majidi Carnegie Mellon University
Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao Stanford University
Qibing Pei
Qibing Pei University of California, Los Angeles
Shinichi Hirai
Shinichi Hirai Ritsumeikan University

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