Yes all well. Consider visiting IIT Bombay sometime in the future. Would love to know your cool research!

Congratulations Shailaja 🎉..my best wishes🙏🏼

(6/6) We quantify RT motion in terms of tumbling rate and show its systematic variation as a function of various experimental parameters. Our theoretical model reproduces experiments and elucidates the physics of underlying phenomena. More details in the preprint. Thanks😃

(5/6) Key to this RT motion is our robot's rolling-without-slipping, inertia-less active motion, which is expected in microswimmers. To confirm this, we used a slippery surface coated with coconut oil and found that the sudden tumble events smoothened out and vanished completely.

(4/6) When robots are programmed to execute overdamped active Brownian (AB) motion, voila, RT motion emerges, featuring abrupt tumbling events and exponential run-time distributions.

(3/6) Inspired by that, we create a robotic organism: two self-propelled robots connected by a rigid rod. Here, robots mimic flagella, and the rod acts as the organism's body. The rod rotates freely in a plane, with its ends pivoted at mirror-symmetric points on each robot.

(2/6) Microswimmers like bacteria and algae use active units, called cilia or flagella, to attain motility in a low Re environment. Flagella undergo a series of synchronous and asynchronous beating cycles to produce straight trajectories (runs) and sudden random turns (tumbles).

I do the same and I have also seen similar ones. And yes my primary objective is also that they go through the course content and at least learn something in the process 😃

Congratulations Shila..👏🏼

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