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2024

 

Dung Beetle-Inspired Robot Published in Advanced Science, Receives Global Media Coverage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appointed as the Director of IST, VISTEC, 01.06.2024

 

 

Interviewed by SDU "Researchers aim to develop new supermaterial for robots", 24.04.2024 (MAESTRI project)

 

 

 

News on NextGEN Robotics (MAESTRI project)

 

 

MAESTRI kick-off meeting, 04.03.2024

 

 

2023

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 10.11.2023

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 13.10.2023

 

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 22.09.2023

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 08.09.2023

 

 

 

 

Cover page of Advanced Theory and Simulations, 15.08.2023, see also video

 

 

 

 

 

Part of PRO-Robots video (AI Revolution: How ChatGPT is Ushering in the Era of Brainy Bots , 06.05.2021

 

 

 

 

HFSP News on "Dung beetle teaches robots how to walk and transport an object", 20.07.2023

 

 

 

Stick insect robot at Advanced Science News, 29.06.2023

Stick insects move robotics forward

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 02.06.2023

 

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 19.05.2023

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 10.02.2023

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 13.01.2023

 

 

 

 

2022

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 23.12.2022

 

 

 

 

 

Invited talk at Digital Tech Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25.10.2022

 

Interviewed by Futurist: Machine Intelligence Inspired by Nature, 10.05.2022

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 22.04.2022

 

 

 

News of our neural control and learning at Tech Xpore, 15.03.2022

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 04.03.2022

 

 

 

 

Cover page of Nature Machine Intelligence, 01.02.2022, see also video

 

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 18.02.2022

 

 

 

 

News of our Fin Ray work at Fagbladet Teknikeren, 01.02.2022

 

 

Our article is selected for Advanced Intelligent Systems Editors' Choice series, 13.02.2022

 

 

HFSP News on Dung Beetle-like Navigation, 28.01.2022

 

 

CAU News on Fin Ray, 26.01.2022 [English] [German]

 

 

 

 

Cover page of Advanced Intelligent Systems, 21.01.2022, see also video

 

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 07.01.2022

 

 

 

 

 

2021

 

News in China, 26.12.2021

 

 

 

SDU News, 12.12.2021

 

 

 

Thailand Morning News, 03.12.2021

 

 

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IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 03.12.2021

 

 

 

Metal Supply News,30.11.2021

 

 

 

VIA ritzau News,29.11.2021

 

 

RobotShop News,18.11.2021

 

 

Atomo News,18.11.2021

 

Advanced Science News, 18.11.2021

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 12.11.2021

 

HOT TOPIC: ROBOTICS (ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES)

 

 

 

IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Soft Robotics, July 2021

 

 

VENOM: Versatile, Adhesive, and Soft Material for Various Surface Adhesion

Our research "VENOM" is listed as a Featured Video on the website of IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Soft Robotics. The website shares the latest publications, technologies, and other relevant information among its members in Soft Robotics.

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 06.07.2021

 

 

 

 

 

Special talk "Robot Intelligence Inspired by Nature: From Nature to Science and Robotics Technology," SOMCHOB CHAIYAVEJ Lecture Series, KMUTNB, Thailand, 05.08.2021

 

 

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 09.07.2021

 

 

 

 

 

Part of PRO-Robots video (The latest robots and future technologies: all the April technology news in one issue), 06.05.2021

 

 

 

TC-R²P/Thai Robotics Society/RAS Thailand International Workshop , 17.06.2021

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 09.04.2021

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 05.03.2021

 

 

 

 

IEEE Spectrum: Video Friday, 19.02.2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

2020

 

DACASROB, Danish Academic Society of Robotics Live Stream, 07.10.2020

 

 

News, Four secret rules that dung beetles use to roll a ball, 18.10.2020

 

 

Special talk "Robotics for the future", Nan Pracha Uthit School, 05.07.2020

 

 

 

 

2019

 

News, Algorithm to help understand wild fishes,18.10.2019

 

 

 

Invited talk on NEUTRON: NEUrorobotic Technology for advanced Robot mOtor coNtrol,The 5th Sino-German Symposium on Integrated biomimetic robots -inspirations from biology for design, materials and control, Bremen, Germany,07.06.2019 ( program)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2018

 

Invited talk on NEUrorobotic Technology for advanced Robot mOtor control (NEUTRON), International Symposium of Bionic Innovation Design and Industrialization, Nanjing, China, 203.12.2018(Program)

 

 

 

 

 

Organize the workshop on Advanced Human-Machine Interaction for Improving Quality of Life and Health, The 22nd International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC 2018), Chiang Mai, Thailand , 21.11.2018 (Booklet)

 

 

 

 

Organize the 2nd International Youth Conference of Bionic Engineering (IYCBE2018), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, 07-09.11.2018 (Booklet)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interviewed by Jyllands-Posten newspaper, 27.10.2018 (pdf)

 

 

China-Denmark Bio-inspired Engineering seminar,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 15.10.2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bionic Science and Technology course on "Biomechanics and Bio-inspired Locomotion Control from Animals to Robots", Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China , 15.10.2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jiangsu artificial intelligence innovation and entrepreneurship competition,Nanjing, China, 13.10.2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robot Demonstration, Digital Thailand Big Bang 2018, 19-23.09.2018

 

 

 

 

 

Organize the 1st joint joint workshop on Biology-inspired robotics and Robotics-inspired Biology (BIRRIB), The 15th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2018) , Frankfurt, Germany, 14.08.2018 (Program)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student internship, Arthicha Srisuchinnawong, Natthiphong Yaidi, Kittipod Punthai, Thanat Ngamwongsakollert, (Bachelor students from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand), at the NEUTRON Lab , at IBSS, NUAA, China, 01.06-10.08.2018

 

 

 

 

 

SDU News, Robots are to be equipped with artificial animal brain,28.05.2018

 

News, Robotter skal udstyres med kunstig dyrehjerne,28.05.2018

 

 

Link to pdf

 

Invited talk on Service Robots and AI,2nd Data science & Engineering seminar, VISTEC, Thailand, 27.03.2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

2017

Invited talk on Exploiting frictional anisotropy from a scale-like material for energy-efficient robot locomotion, Second International Symposium on Bionic Science and Technology for the Belt and Road, Nanjing, China, 17.12.2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

Invited talk on Machine learning for real world applications, Data science & Engineering seminar, VISTEC, Thailand, 16.08.2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special talk on "AI and biomedical engineering technology for Thailand 4.0", Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand, 26.07.2017

 

 

 

 

 


Video

Summer course on "Embodied AI", Biomedical Engineering, Rangsit University, Pathum Thani, Thailand, 03.07.2017-02.08.2017

 

 

 

Workshop on Workshop on Bio-inspired Robotics, supported by OHEC Thailand, Century Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, 24.06.2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interviewed by SDU about the DLife project

 

 

 

Interviewed by ISBE for Newsletter,[pdf]

 

 

Interviewed by Office of Science and Technology Royal Thai Embassy for Newsletter, Brussels, [pdf]

 

 

 

 

 

Interviewed by SDU about research on sharkskin shoes for robots

 

 

Interviewed by Office of Science and Technology Royal Thai Embassy for Newsletter, Brussels, [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Interviewed by SDU about the Plan4act project

 

 

Share experience and knowledge to the students of the SCiUS project, Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning, Thailand, 13.01.2017



2016

 

Special seminar on Embodied AI & Neurorobotics, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMTNB), Thailand, 25.11.2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KU Robotic course on "Artificial neural networks: An Approach to Build Brains for Bodies", Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Thailand, 24.11.2016

 

 

 

 

 

Visit Institute of Field Robotics, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand, 29.11.2016

 

 

 

ATPER Meeting 2016, Brussels, Belgium, 09-11.09.2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tutorial on Exploiting Soft Materials, Biomechanical Structures, and Neural Mechanisms for Adaptive Locomotion at SAB2016, Aberystwyth, UK, 23.08.2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer course on "Biomechanics and Locomotion Control from Insects to Robots", Institute of Bioinspired Structure and Surface Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, 08.07-13.07.2016

 

 

 

Visit CT ASIA Robotics, Thailand, 16.05.2016

 

Visit MERCAN STEEL(2008) Co.Ltd., Thailand, 12.05.2016

 

 

 

Special seminar on Robot Technology for the Future, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Thailand, 02.05.2016

 

 

 

 

 

Interviewed by NDR TV, Germany, 17.03.2016 [Video full part] [Video only dung beetle] [pdf]

 

  

 

2015

 

Visit PC farm,Chachoengsao, Thailand, 18.12.2015

 

 

 

 

Workshop on Robot technology and supply chain for the factory of the future, organized by Trisak Group and RETURN project, Swissotel Nai Lert Park Bangkok, Thailand, 15.12.2015

 

 

 

 

 

Share experience and knowledge to the students of the SCiUS project, Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning, Thailand, 14.12.2015

 

 

 

Special seminar on Robot Technology for the Future, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Thailand, 03.08.2015

 

 

 

 

 

Special lecture on the topic of Bio-inspired Robotics, Industrial Education, Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, Suphanburi Campus, Thailand, 22.07.2015

 

 

 

KMUTT Talk entitled "Bio-inspired Robotics", King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Thailand, 14.07.2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visit Mechanical Engineering, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand, 10.07.2015

 

 

Visit Trisak Automation Company and  give consultation about robotic technology to the company, Thailand, 08.07.2015

 

 

 

 

Special lecture on the topic of Bio-inspired Robots at Bangkok Christian College, Thailand, 08.01.2015

 

 

 

 

2014

 

Visit Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand, 23.12.2014

 

 

 

Special lecture on the topic of Neural Control, Learning, and Memory of Bio-inspired Walking Robots at the faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Thailand, 18.12.2014

 

 

 

Visit Institute of Field Robotics (FIBO) at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, 25.11.2014

 

  

 

Special lecture on the topic of Neural Control, Learning, and Memory for Complex Behaviors of Autonomous Walking Robots at Kasetsart University Research and Development Institute, Thailand, 21.11.2014

 

 

 

 

Interviewed by Kasetsart University Research and Development Institute, 21.11.2014

 

 

 

 

RBD Research project (ATPER-Thai Researchers) at Department of Aquaculture, Kasetsart University, Thailand, 17-21.11.2014

 

 

Interviewed by Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany, 11.11.2014 (pdf)

 

 

Student internship, Chanchai Mathong, a student from Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule Göttingen, did a three week school internship from 05-23.05.2014 in our group the supervision of Kolja Riefsdahl and Simon Reich

 

 

 

 

2013

 

Robot Demonstration for visiting of HeKKSaGOn University Consortium (University of Heidelberg, Kyoto University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Tohoku University, University of Göttingen, Osaka University) at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Goettingen, Germany, 13.09.2013

 

 

 

Workshop, Zukunftstag fuer Maedchen und Jungen-Maedchen-Zukunftstag at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Goettingen, Germany, 25.04.2013

 

 

 

Video1, Video2, Video3

 

Robot Demonstration, Hannover Messe 2013, Hannover, 8-12.04.2013

 

 

 

 

Video1, Video2, Video3

 

 

Robot Demonstration, Ottobock Day, Technisches Museum Wien, 20.02.2013

 

 

 

 

Video1, Video2

 

 

 

2012

 

Robot Demonstration, Nacht der Wissen, University of Goettingen, 24.11.2012

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Robot Demonstration, Highlights der Physik 2012- Raetsel der Materie, Gaenseliselmarkt, Goettingen, 18.09-22.09.2012

 

  

Video

 

Robot Demonstration, Mitarbeiterfest,  Uni Goettingen, Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude (ZHG), Großer und Kleiner Campus, 31.05.2012

 

 

  

  

Video1, Video2

 

Workshop, Girls'Day-Maedchen-Zukunftstag at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Goettingen, Germany, 24.04.2012

 

 

  

 

 

 

2011

 

Tag der offen TuerForschung hautnah-vonder lebenden Zelle bis zum Roboter, Goettingen, 05.11.2011

 

  

   

 

ATPER meeting 2011, ATPER meeting 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark, 07-08.05.2011

 

  

 

Workshop, Girls'Day-Maedchen-Zukunftstag at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Goettingen, Germany, 14.04.2011

 

 

  

 

Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOSII and legged-wheeled robot) at a lecture of Prof. Marc Timme for "Junge Entdecker" at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, 01.04.2011

 

 

  

Video

 

 

Orthosis demonstration for visiting of Minister Prof. Wanka at Bernstein Center Göttingen, 25.01.2011

 

 

2010

 

NSTDA project: "Energy harvesting and power management systems from piezoelectric materials"in collaboration with Ronsek Ltd. (UK) and National Electronics & Computer Technology Center (Thailand), Pathunmthani, Thailand, 1-30.12.2010

 

 

"Von Kakerlaken lernen – die kleinen Insekten als Helfer der Wissenschaft", Planetopia, Germany, 18.04.2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interviewed on robots podcast, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland, 26.03.2010

 

 

Interviewed on German radio, "Forscher entwickeln insektenähnlichen Roboter", Germany, 18.01.2010

 

   Forschung Aktuell  

 

 

2009

 

RBD project: "The Development of Mobile Robot using Neural Network Control" in collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pudit Laksanacharoen, KMUTNB supported by the commission on higher education of Thailand, August-September 2009

 

 

 

 

 

ATPER meeting 2009, ATPER meeting 2009, Paris, France, 22-23.04.2009

 

 

 

Workshop, Girls'Day - Mädchen-Zukunftstag at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Goettingen, Germany, 23.04.2009

 

 

  

 

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Interviewed on active radio-FM 99 Mhz, Techno for life, Thailand, 26.02.2009

 

  Techno For Life (2009-02-26/17:01:51)

 

 

Robot demonstration at Inventors' day, Impact Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok, Thailand, 02-05.02.2009

 

 

   

 

 

Receive the best Ph.D. thesis award in Engineering and Industrial Research category from the Office of the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) (news)

 

 

         With Prime Minister of Thailand-Abhisit Vejjajiva                                                   With Minister of Science & Technologyof Thailand-

                                                                                                           Dr. Kanlaya Sophonphanit (second from right)

 

 

2008

 

International scientific committee of the International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering (CESSE 2008)
December 29-31, 2008, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

 

International scientific committee of the International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering (CESSE 2008)
December 17-19, 2008, Bangkok, Thailand

 

Robot demonstrationat University of Osnabrueck, Germany, 20.11.2008.

 

 

Video                                                                                                     Video

 

Seminar and Robot demonstration at National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Bangkok, Thailand, 03.10.2008. (pdf1)  (pdf2)

 

   

 

 

Seminar and Robot demonstration at Radisson hotel sponsored by the commission on higher education, Bangkok, Thailand, 29.09.2008. (pdf1) (pdf2)

 

   

 

 

Honor Chair of the International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology 2008 (ICCSIT 2008) August 29 - September 2, 2008, Singapore

 

 

August TRC Project Contest Winners!

 

 

 

Robot demonstration at Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, USA, 05.06.2008.

 

 

Video1,Video2,Video3

 

 

Robot demonstration at the Robot Zoo of the Fourth International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA, 01-04.06.2008.

 

 

 

 link                          link

 

 

Workshop, Girls'Day-Maedchen-Zukunftstag at Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN), Goettingen, Germany, 24.04.2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robot demonstration (Lego walking robots, 6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06 ) at Techkriti'08, IIT Kanpur, India, 15.02.2008

 

 

 

 

 

2007

 

Interviewed by Discoveries & Breakthroughs, 2007

 

 

 

 

Robot demonstration (Lego walking robots, Robot swarm (ASURO), 6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06 and RunBot) at IdeenExpo, Hannover, Germany, 6-14.10.2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With German Minister of education Annette Schavan

during the interview at IdeenExpo..........................................................

 

 Video1, Video2

 

 

At Ideen Expo, we demonstrated our robots under topic "ROBOTS ALIVE: From simple systems to complex ones"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simple lego biped (one actuator, manual control)..................................................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simple four-legged walking robot (one actuator, manual control)........................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lego six-legged walking robot

(two actuators and two touch sensors, reactive control).........................................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASURO (two actuators and two sensors, reactive control)........................................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Six-legged wallking robot AMOS 

(twenty-two actuators and twenty sensors, neural control)......................................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Dynamic biped robot RunBot (five actuators and eight sensors, neural control & learning)k  hhdfh........................................

 

 

Robot demonstration(Robot swarm, 6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06 and RunBot) at Otto Bock Healthcare in Duderstadt, Germany, 13.07.2007

 

 

 

 

Robot demonstration (Robot swarm, 6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06 and RunBot) at Tag der offenen Tuer der Fakultaet fuer Physik, University of Goettingen, Germany, 12.07.2007

 

 

Track Program Committee Member of the 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA07),Track 9: Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 25-28, 2007, Patras, Greece

 

 

Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06 and Robot swarm) at University of Goettingen (die Kinder-Uni 2007 programm) , Germany, 23.05.2007

 

  

                           Video                                                             Video                                                              Video

 

 

Interviewed by Thai newspaper "Seang Chownan" (in Thai), Thailand, 09.05.2007

 

 

 

2006

 

Robot demonstration (6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at Rathaus Goettingen (Akademiewoche 2006 ), Goettingen, Germany, 29.09.2006

 

  Video

 

 

Robot demonstration (Rubot and 6-legged walking machine AMOS-WD06) at Nacht der Informatik, University of Goettingen, Germany, 19.07.2006

 

    Video

 

 

2005

 

Robot demonstration at the Robot Zoo of the Third International Symposium on Adaptive Motion in Animals and Machines, Ilmenau, Germany, 25-30.09.2005.

 

             Walking robot competition                            AMOS-WD02, AMOS-WD06 in action

 

 

 

Robot demonstrationon Targe der Robotik (Robitc day) at Technical University of Ilmenau, ZHS (Humboldtbau), Ilmenau, Germany, 24

 

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Photo from AMAM' conference 2005 , Illmanau

 

  

 

 

 

2004

 

Robot demonstration at the exhibition of Intelligent Dynamics, Fraunhofer Institut for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 11.11.2004.


Robot demonstration at Wissenschaft nacht (scientific day), University of Bonn, Germany, 02.07.2004.

 

 

2003

 

 

2002

 

Interviewed by Thai newspaper "Seang Chownan" (in Thai), Thailand, 16.05.2002

 

 

 

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