SMART M3S demonstrates AI breakthroughs for Soft Robotics at CREATE Seminar

On 5 November, the CREATE Seminar ‘Intelligence with Resilience: AI, Robotics, and Security at the Frontiers’, brought together four leading CREATE entities — Singapore-HUJ Alliance for Research and Enterprise (SHARE), Imperial Global Singapore (IGS), Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (Illinois ARCS), and the Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S) interdisciplinary group from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research Technology (SMART) — to showcase complementary strengths in advancing cutting-edge technologies while ensuring they remain secure, resilient and trusted.

Prof Cecilia Laschi, Principal Investigator at M3S, presenting a technical talk on soft robotics

SMART M3S, represented by Prof Cecilia Laschi, Principal Investigator at M3S,  delivered a technical talk on ‘Soft robotics: from Bioinspired Principles to Efficient Human-Centred Machines’, where she showcased how M3S research is pushing the boundaries of soft robotics and AI, and discussed the increased efficiency of robotics with embodied intelligence. Prof Laschi highlighted the concept of morphological computation, which suggests that perception and action are not solely determined by neural control, but emerge from the continuous interaction among body, environment, and the controller.

SMART M3S poster demos

M3S also presented posters and demos on their research and specific use cases from the T2 team’s work on Intuitive Interfaces between Humans and Machines, demonstrating advancements in soft robotics for human-machine teaming.

The CREATE Seminar demonstrated how cross-disciplinary collaboration drives innovation at the interface of capability and assurance, driving high-impact research with global relevance. Through the seminar, SMART M3S reaffirmed its commitment to shaping secure, impactful technological futures.