The Biomechatronics Lab is featured in Season 13, Episode 13 of “Ancient Aliens,” which is the History Channel’s longest running nonfiction series. The episode entitled, “The Artificial Human,” also features Dr. Dennis Hong’s RoMeLa Team. We thank Frankie Glass and Lara Shaghoian of Prometheus Studios, host Giorgio A. […]
Dr. Santos was awarded a $1.6M, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research titled, “Robot grasp and manipulation of deformable linear objects with applications for cable following: Haptic perception.” This award enables collaboration with the research teams of Prof. Julie Shah and Prof. […]
Accompanied by Hillary MacInnes, UCLA’s Assistant Director of Federal Relations, Dr. Santos presented Biomechatronics Lab research at the Annual Coalition for National Science Funding Capitol Hill Exhibition on May 9, 2018. She also met with numerous staff and members of the U.S. Congress to highlight the importance of […]
Biomechatronics Lab alumnus Peter Aspinall was a co-author of a paper titled, “Measuring dynamic shear force and vibration with a bioinspired tactile sensor skin,” which has been accepted for publication in IEEE Sensors. This work was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Jianzhu Yin and Dr. Jonathan D. Posner (Mechanical […]
Biomechatronics Lab doctoral students Alireza Haji Fathaliyan and Xiaoyu Wang were equally contributing co-authors of a paper titled, “Exploiting 3D gaze tracking for action recognition during bimanual manipulation to enhance human-robot collaboration,” which has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. This work was supported […]
Biomechatronics Lab undergraduate student Jimmy Peñaloza was a co-author of a paper titled, “Scalable fabric tactile sensor arrays for soft bodies,” which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. This research was conducted in collaboration with Nathan Day and Dr. Marc Killpack (Mechanical Engineering, […]
Collaborative research conducted with Dr. Jianzhu Yin and Dr. Jonathan D. Posner (Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington) has been featured in a number of online articles. The multimodal tactile sensor skin can be used to measure normal force, shear force, and vibration at frequencies that surpass human capabilities. […]
Biomechatronics Lab alumnus, Dr. Randall B. Hellman was a co-author of a paper titled, “Functional contour-following via haptic perception and reinforcement learning,” which has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Haptics. This research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Cem Tekin (Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, […]
Dr. Santos was a co-author of a paper titled, “Bioinspired flexible microfluidic shear force sensor skin,” which has been published in Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. This research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Jianzhu Yin and Dr. Jonathan D. Posner (Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington). This work was […]
Kenneth Gutierrez and Shengxin Jia each had papers accepted to the 2017 RSS Workshop on “Tactile Sensing for Manipulation: Hardware, Modeling, and Learning” to be held in Boston, MA on July 15, 2017. Citations: Gutierrez, K. and Santos, V.J. “Online perception […]
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