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albertocomoretto.bsky.social
PhD student in the Soft Robotic Matter Group at AMOLF. I research squishy machines and autonomous matter 🦠 🤖 Inflatables 🎈 fluidics 🫧 mechanical instabilities ⛓️‍💥 and self-oscillators 🌀 https://www.albertocomoretto.com/
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This totally tubular robot doesn’t need a centralized processing system to hop around on land or swim in the water—it relies instead on air and simple physics. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Autonomous locomotion simply with tubes as limbs, and no brain? 🎈🤖 Yes, through physical synchronization! Our article is out today in Science (@science.org) Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Authors: @albertocomoretto.bsky.social, H.A.H. Schomaker, J.T.B. Overvelde More below 🧪 ⚛️ (1/6)

Closing out my second talk at the RoboSoft workshops with this: take robot joy seriously! Examples include EMFcamp, Cat Royale, and sextech hack. Fantastic bunch of people doing cool things. Feels like my brain has had a good spring clean.

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Engineer and photographer Harold Edgerton was born #OTD in 1903. He pioneered various forms of high-speed photography using specialized cameras, strobe lighting, and other techniques. You’ve probably seen many of the images he created! 🧪 ⚛️ 📸 Images: MIT; H. Edgerton

My ode to Curiosity Driven Research www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/b...

Nature research paper: Adaptive locomotion of active solids https://go.nature.com/41KlOVd

The first paper of my PhD is about a strange phenomenon peculiar to ketchup bottle valves 💧🥫 You may already have experienced that annoying sputtering when you squeeze ketchup out of the bottle. But not always, right? 🧪⚛️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hey Bluesky, I heard u like viruses artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🦠

Excited to represent @amolf-nl.bsky.social at #APSSummit25 tomorrow. If you are in Anaheim, do check out my talk on ciliary walkers 🐙 summit.aps.org/events/MAR-B...

From a visit to the Renwick Gallery in DC a couple of weeks ago: a very cool art piece by Lauren Mabry showcasing coiling instabilities in viscous fluids. A beautiful intersection of art, fluid mechanics (and some rheology!). @sorheology.bsky.social @apsdsoft.bsky.social