Interview with Robert Shepherd: On Soft Robots, Biomimetics, and Beyond

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction
4. Materials Matter: Introduction 1
5. On the Activity of Materials 37
6. Interviews: Scientists on Active Matter
7. Interview with Thomas Speck: “You Don’t Want to Build an Oak Tree – You Want to Invent It.” Plants as Active Matter 55
8. On Responsive and Adaptive Materials 79
9. Interview with John Dunlop: Shape-Changing Materials 95
10. Interview with Jean-François Joanny: Activity, Instabilities, and Defects 117
11. Interview with Barbara Mazzolai: Plants, Plantoids, and Active Materials 129
12. Interview with Robert Shepherd: On Soft Robots, Biomimetics, and Beyond 145
13. Interview with Ramin Golestanian: Living Matter, or What Is Life? 157
14. Interview with Nikolaus Correll: Robotic Materials 173
15. Essays: Part 1: Cultural, Scientific, and Design Perspectives
16. Rethinking Active Matter: Current Developments in Active Materials 191
17. Matter of Agency: Active Materials in Digital Design Research 223
18. Essays: Part 2: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
19. Unsystematic Vitality: From Early Modern Beeswarms to Contemporary Swarm Intelligence 259
20. Leibniz’s Concept of Agens in Matter, Space, and Image 299
21. Rhetoric’s Active Matters 313
22. Proteins as Monads 339
23. Index 367