Not about science in general but about Science Magazine, one of the high-impact, general purpose scientific journals. My notion of science is “When you do bad science you are not getting into Science. If you are doing great science, you are probably still not getting into Science.“
However, I have submitted a research article manuscript to Science magazine yesterday and I would like to take you on the journey with me.
Continue readingWired magazin published an interesting article covering a recent paper of my dear co-author Dr. Michael Guenther which is worth reading
https://www.wired.com/story/why-even-the-fastest-human-cant-outrun-your-house-cat/
which bases on his recent paper
And there is also a very nice video about running top speed from WIRED’s “Almost Impossible” series
On December 17th I will give a presentation about my current research as part of the mid-term evaluation for my postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation). It will be live from 1:30pm.
The German Research Foundation granted a 3-year project for a collaboration with the Dynamic Locomotion Group at MPI-IS in Stuttgart. The hiring is almost completed, updates to follow soon.
I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago informing me that I have been awarded the “Reviewer of the Year” title of the IOP journal “Bioinspiration & Biomimetics” “in recognition of the high quality and timeliness of your reviews during the year.” I highly appreciate this recognition for five reviews throughout 2018.
Today the two hip motors turned for the first time under direct computer control. I am using Humusoft MF634 cards with Simulink Realtime Desktop.
I will be offering a new course on “Applied Biorobotics” next term at TU Munich. Check out the intro video.
More information and updates on the course website.
https://plus.google.com/102661599634485362064/posts/i9LDJ6XuiL9
Finally, after first submitting our article to IEEE Transactions on Robotics on December, 13th 2013, after 3 reviews and one change in paper format our new article “Exciting engineered passive dynamics in a bipedal robot” is finally online and will be published in the upcoming issue.
ATRIAS also recently pushed the record for fast walking to 2.1m/s (7.6km/h) – great work at the DRL.