Listen to Berkeley Talks episode #148: Learning from nature to design better robots.
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Intro: This is Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast from the Office of Communications and Public Affairs that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. You can subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. New episodes come out every other Friday.
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Matthew Shears: Good morning, OLLI at Berkeley, and welcome to our Friday special event series. Today, we’re very excited to be hosting professor Robert Full. Robert is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor in integrated biology. He received all of his degrees from SUNY Buffalo before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1986. He directs the Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, studying animal motion science to inspire the design of novel materials and…