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Intelligent Modularity and a Holistic Approach for Rugged System Development

What do intelligent modularity, parametric design for reuse and reconfiguration in rugged system development, and robots inspired by jellyfish have in common? This week’s Fish Fry podcast! Bill Pilaud (LCR Embedded Systems) and I discuss how intelligent modularity can make chassis design more efficient, how parametric design can enable reuse and reconfiguration in rugged system development, and how these approaches reflect a holistic approach for military and aerospace design. Also this week, I check out a new robotic jellyfish developed by a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute For Intelligent Systems that can clean up ocean debris without any contact.

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Presentations from the 2023 Embedded Tech Trends Conference 

Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans (Max Planck Institute For Intelligent Systems)

Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans (Youtube)

 

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David Mayman, CEO – Mayman Aerospace 

Anupam Bakshi, CEO – Agnisys

Dave Kleidermacher, CTO – Green Hills Software

Robert Blake, CEO – Achronix

Jack Harding, CEO – eSilicon

Michiel Ligthart, COO – Verific

Simon Davidmann, CEO – Imperas

Jessica Gomez – Rogue Valley Microdevices

Shishpal Rawat, Chairman – Accellera Systems Initiative

Kevin Bromber, CEO – myDevices

Daniel Hansson, CEO – Verifyter

Mark Papermaster, CTO – AMD

David Fried, CTO – Coventor

Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, President – Valencell

David Dutton, CEO – Silvaco

Bob Niemiec, CEO – TwistThink

Allan Martinson, COO – Starship Technologies

Zhihong Liu, Chairman and CEO – ProPlus Solutions

Taher Madraswala, CEO and President – Open-Silicon

Kapil Shankar, CEO and Director – AnDAPT

Dan Fox, CTO – Local Motors

Kim Rowe, Founder and CEO — RoweBots

Lawrence Cooke, Founder and CEO — NovaSolix

Gregg Recupero, CTO — Performance-IP

Alan Grau, CEO — Icon Labs

Carl Alberty, Vice President – Cirrus Logic

Maximilian Odendahl, CEO — Silexica

Finbarr Moynihan, General Manager — MediaTek

Sanjay Pillay, CEO — Austemper

Louis Parks, CEO – SecureRF

Harold Blomquist, CEO – Helix Semiconductor

Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss, Co-Founders – Maker Faire

David Su, CEO – Atomic Technologies

Mung Chiang, EVP and Dean of Engineering College – Purdue University

Clay Johnson, CEO – CacheQ

Andy Hock, Vice President, Product – Cerebras Systems

Dan Goehl, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer – UltraSense Systems

Charlie Green, Chief Operating & Technical Officer – Powercast

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