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David Zarrouk, Ph.D. zadavid@bgu.ac.il
I am an associate professor at the ME department of Ben Gurion University,
and director of the Bioinspired and Medical Robotics Laboratory.
I did my postdoc at the Biomimetics and Millisystems Lab, EECS, UC Berkeley
My Youtube page UC Berkeley Biomimetics Youtube page
Academic degrees
Ph.D. 2011 Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. (supervisor Prof. Moshe Shoham)
“The Interaction Between Miniature Robots and Biological Tissue”
M.Sc. 2007 Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. (supervisor Prof. Eli Altus)
“Mechanical aspects of stochastic structures”
B.Sc. 2005 Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Major in Robotics, Mechatronics, Dynamics and Control
Research Interests
· Miniature robotics-flexible and slippery surfaces interactions
· Biomimetics
· Millisystems and rapid prototyping
· Under actuated and minimally actuated mechanisms
· Simplified modeling
· Theoretical kinematics
This video presents the AmphiSAW robot. The Robot relies on a unique wave producing mechanism using a single motor. The AmphiSAW is one of the fastest amphibious robots and the most energy efficient amphibious robot.
Its Bio-inspired mechanism is bio-friendly as it allows the robot to swim among fish without intimidating them.
It can be used for search and rescue applications (in flooded disaster zones for example) as well as monitoring and robotic aquaculture.
Developed at the Bioinspired and Medical Robotics Lab at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev by Omer Guetta, Dan Shachaf, Rotem Katz and David Zarrouk.
For more Technical Details, please see the paper:
A novel wave-like crawling robot has excellent swimming capabilities, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 2023.