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An Edible Bistable Tilt Sensor Enabling Autonomous Operation of a Partially Eatable Rolling Robot

Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak

Edible electronics and robotics are emerging areas intimately bridging food science and engineering to deliver technology using food-derived materials. Edible devices offer unprecedented opportunities thanks to features such as bioresorbability, nutritiona ...

Wiley2023

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones

Dario Floreano

We are witnessing the advent of a new era of robots — drones — that can autonomously fly in natural and man-made environments. These robots, often associated with defence applications, could have a major impact on civilian tasks, including transportation, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

A multi-modal hovering and terrestrial robot with adaptive morphology

Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev

Most current drones are designed with a static morphology aimed at exploiting a single locomotion mode. This results in limited versatility and adaptability to multi-domain environments, such as those encountered in rescue missions, agriculture and inspect ...

2018

How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives

Rafael Lalive, Antonio Paolillo, Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, William John Stewart, Davide Zambrano, Nicola Nosengo

The effects of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market are matters of great social concern. Economists and technology experts are debating at what rate, and to what extent, technology could be used to replace humans in occupations, and ...

2022

Instant variable stiffness in cardiovascular catheters based on fiber jamming

Dario Floreano, Yegor Piskarev, Yi Sun

Variable stiffness (VS) has revolutionized miniature surgical instruments, including cardiovascular catheters for minimally invasive surgeries (MISs), enabling advanced capabilities in stiffness modulation and multi-curvature bending. However, existing VS ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven, Maja Varga

The success of swarm behaviors often depends on the range at which robots can communicate and the speed at which they change their behavior. Challenges arise when the communication range is too small with respect to the dynamics of the robot, preventing in ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Human-Comfortable Collision Free Navigation for Personal Aerial Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Grégoire Hilaire Marie Heitz, Nicolas Dousse

Semi- or fully-autonomous Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) are currently studied and developed by public and private organizations as a solution for traffic congestion. While optimal collision-free navigation algorithms have been proposed for autonomous rob ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Combining Multiple Results of a Reverse Engineering Algorithm: Application to the DREAM Five Gene Network Challenge

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Daniel Marbach

The output of reverse engineering methods for biological networks is often not a single network prediction, but an ensemble of networks that are consistent with the experimentally measured data. In this paper, we consider the problem of combining the infor ...

Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Rd, Oxford Ox4 2Dq, Oxen, England2009

Elastic-Actuation Mechanism for Repetitive Hopping Based on Power Modulation and Cyclic Trajectory Generation

Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, William John Stewart, Won Dong Shin, Matthew Alfonso Estrada

Animal locomotion results from a combination of power modulation and cyclic appendage trajectories, but combining these two properties in small-sized robots is difficult. Here, we introduce and characterize a new elastic actuation system based on an invert ...

2022

On the Scalability of Vision-based Drone Swarms in the Presence of Occlusions

Dario Floreano, Fabian Maximilian Schilling, Enrica Soria

Vision-based drone swarms have recently emerged as a promising alternative to address the fault-tolerance and flexibility limitations of centralized and communication-based aerial collective systems. Although most vision-based control algorithms rely on th ...

2022

Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Mirko Kovac

Recent work suggests that jumping locomotion in combination with a gliding phase can be used as an effective mobility principle in robotics. Compared to pure jumping without a gliding phase, the potential benefits of hybrid jump-gliding locomotion includes ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Fly-inspired Visual Steering of an Ultralight Indoor Aircraft

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey

We aim at developing autonomous micro-flyers capable of navigating within houses or small indoor environments using vision as principal source of information. Due to severe weight and energy constraints, inspiration is taken from the fly for the selection ...

2006

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, Pavan P Ramdya, Robin Thandiackal

To escape danger or catch prey, running vertebrates rely on dynamic gaits with minimal ground contact. By contrast, most insects use a tripod gait that maintains at least three legs on the ground at any given time. One prevailing hypothesis for this differ ...

Nature Research2017

A Perching Mechanism for Flying Robots Using a Fibre-Based Adhesive

Metin Sitti, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod, Adam Klaptocz, Ludovic Daler

Robots capable of hover flight in constrained indoor environments have many applications, however their range is constrained by the high energetic cost of airborne locomotion. Perching allows flying robots to scan their environment without the need to rema ...

2013

Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Pawel Lichocki

In social insects, workers perform a multitude of tasks such as foraging, nest construction and brood rearing without central control of how work is allocated among individuals. It has been suggested that workers choose a task by responding to stimuli gath ...

2012

Communication-based Swarming for Flying Robots

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven

We aim at implementing a swarm of Micro-Air-Vehicles for creating communication networks (SMAVNETs) in disaster areas. For this purpose, we propose strategies for steering flying robots using only communication hardware (e.g. WiFi module or radio modem) an ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2010

Analog Genetic Encoding for the Evolution of Circuits and Networks

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi

This paper describes a new kind of genetic representation called analog genetic encoding (AGE). The representation is aimed at the evolutionary synthesis and reverse engineering of circuits and networks such as analog electronic circuits, neural networks, ...

2007

Memetic Viability Evolution for Constrained Optimization

Dario Floreano, Andrea Maesani, Giovanni Iacca

The performance of evolutionary algorithms can be heavily undermined when constraints limit the feasible areas of the search space. For instance, while Covariance Matrix Adapta- tion Evolution Strategy is one of the most efficient algorithms for unconstrai ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI) tracks identity in heterogeneous groups of Drosophila

Dario Floreano, Pavan P Ramdya, Thomas Schaffter

Distinguishing subpopulations in group behavioral experiments can reveal the impact of differences in genetic, pharmacological and life-histories on social interactions and decision-making. Here we describe Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI), a toolkit ...

2012

Differences in the Concept of Fitness Between Artificial Evolution and Natural Selection

Dario Floreano, Pawel Lichocki, Laurent Keller

Evolutionary algorithms were proposed to automatically find solutions to computational problems, much like evolution discovers new adaptive traits. Lately, they have been used to address challenging questions about the evolution of modularity, the genetic ...

The MIT Press2012