Researcher Ardian Jusufi has been selected among the candidates of the Falling Walls Foundation Global Call for Science Breakthroughs 2026. The recognition highlights work at the intersection of biology, robotics, and nature-inspired intelligence.
His group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics builds soft robotic models of animal bodies — varying stiffness, tail function, and sensing — to study how form and movement interact.
The aim is twofold: robots that stay more stable on hard terrain, and a less invasive way to study how animals move.