Robots on fire!

Smouldering megafires are the largest and longest-burning fires on Earth, and are global environmental disasters. They destroy essential ecosystems, induce surges of respiratory emergencies in the population, and are responsible for 15% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the same amount attributed to the whole of the European Union. Guillermo’s talk is about how smouldering fires ignite, spread, and extinguish, and how we can create the technology that will reduce the environmental burden of smouldering fires.

Bio-mechatronics is a discipline where scientists and engineers turn inspirations from nature into smarter engineering systems. Ravi will share his experience in the field of bio-mechatronics and the latest architectures developed in his group, including brain-implant therapies, robot interface systems, and insect-inspired mobile robots, which in the future may be able to perform hazardous tasks such as fighting megafires.