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Microscopic Robots

March of the microscopic robots
Walking Nanorobots with Brains - Science of the Very, Very Small
World's smallest origami bird shows potential of nanoscale machines
Millions of Microscopic Robots Learn to Walk | Mashable
ASME TechCast: Engineers Make Microscopic Robots Walk

Biolocomotion

Flight of the Fruit Fly - DFD 2018
Moshing with Physics | Jesse Silverberg | TEDxYale
Controlling Flapping Flight | Itai Cohen | TEDxCornellUniversity
How fruit flies control their flight
Cohen lab interview on Physics Buzz
Cohen lab interview on Physics Buzz
cbc-radio
Physics of Mosh Pits on CBC's As It Happens
Hovering Fruit Fly
Hovering fruit fly
Flight research (for the public)
Flight research (for the public)
Mosquito flight
Mosquito flight
Flight research
Flight research (grade school and high school)
Fruit Fly Lecture
Flight of the Fruit Fly - Lecture
How fruit flies control their roll angle
How fruit flies control their roll angle
Drag induced forward propulsion in insect flight
Drag induced forward propulsion in insect flight

Complex Fluids

Using Orthogonal Shear and Acoustic Excitation to Tune Thickening and Jamming in Suspensions
How oobleck works: The mystery of shear-thickening cornstarch solutions
Biaxial Confocal-Rheoscope
Adding an Additional Dimension to the Measurement of Viscosity
Diffusion and Colloidal Crystals
Diffusion & Colloidal Crystals
Freezing of Colloidal Crystal on a Square Lattice
Biaxial Confocal Rheoscope
Drop break-up
Drop break-up of lyotripic surfactant in lamellar phase
Rotational Brownian Motion
Rotational Brownian motion

Origami Mechanical Metamaterials

Cell Sized Robots with Curiosity Daily Podcast
Origami Video Icon
Mechanics of Origami

Mechanics of Biological Tissues

How do plant roots find the quickest way down?
Plant Root Buckling in a Soft Gel
Plant Root Buckling in a Soft Gel
Compliant regions in cartilage
Compliant regions in cartilage
Plant Root Buckling in a Stiff Gel
plant root growth
Time lapse video of Medicago root growing.
Fun

Fun

Cohen's Candidates
Vial shattering in cornstarch - slow motion shear thickening
Cornstarch crack - shear thickening slow motion
Drilling shear thickening cornstarch - slow motion
Cornstarch and hammer - slow motion shear thickening
Water dripping
Water dripping
Milk under a Microscope
Milk under a Microscope
The Prank
The Prank
Spray can
Spray can
Vibrating wine glass
Vibrating wine glass
Water on a tuning fork
Water on a tuning fork
"Buckley Don't Go" by Itai Cohen and the Cohenettes
"Buckley Don't Go" by Itai Cohen and the Cohenettes
Outreach

Outreach

Dance of Scales
Dance of Scales
Finding Your Scientific Voice
Finding Your Scientific Voice
Yamatai: PULSE 2013
High speed video of Japanese Taiko drums
Soft Matters with Itai Cohen
Prof. Cohen interviewed on Soft Matters
Iron Physicist 2011
Iron Physicist