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This often requires moving beyond the metrics conventional robotics relies on today and introducing measures that better capture how biological systems generate force, absorb energy, sense contact, and adapt through interaction.</span></p><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Your work focuses on distilling biological function into actionable specifications: limits, scaling laws, and performance envelopes that guide the design of materials, mechanisms, sensors, actuators, and control systems. In some cases this may inspire bionic solutions; more often, it </span><strong><span style=\"color:#000000\">means shaping technical systems so that despite different implementations their behavior converges toward biological performance</span></strong><span style=\"color:#000000\">.</span></p><p style=\"min-height: 1.7em;\"></p><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">For example, while we may not build actuators that function like biological muscle, we can define muscle-relevant performance targets—force density, bandwidth, compliance, efficiency, transient response—and drive motors, transmissions, and control systems toward those specs so the system behaves biologically at the task level. The same principle applies across domains: to soft tissue and artificial skin; to tactile sensing, where perception emerges from spatiotemporal structure rather than raw resolution; and to interaction and locomotion, where efficiency, stability, and grace are coupled properties rather than isolated objectives.</span></p><p style=\"min-height: 1.7em;\"></p><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">In practice, you will:</span></p><ul><li><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Go deep on biological systems: study them, model them, and experiment on them to understand what drives their performance.</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Design and build experimental setups to characterize biological and bio-inspired systems under realistic conditions.</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Translate biological behavior into quantitative specs that can be acted on by engineers.</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Use those specs to influence the design of materials, mechanisms, sensors, actuators, and control architectures.</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Work closely with teams across hardware, materials, and intelligence to ensure these insights survive contact with real systems and real constraints.</span></p></li></ul><p><span style=\"color:#000000\">This role sits at the boundary between biology and engineering—and requires being fluent on both sides.</span></p><p style=\"min-height: 1.7em;\"></p><p style=\"min-height: 1.7em;\"></p>",
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