After delivering a keynote presentation and live on-stage demo at the 2025 United Nations AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, Prof. Veronica J. Santos was interviewed by Ian Ginn as part of the Digitel Talk podcast series. The episode entitled, “Engineering Empathy Through Robotic Touch” addresses […]
The Biomechatronics Lab led a keynote presentation and live on-stage demo at the 2025 United Nations AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland to showcase the power of touch in human-robot systems in front of a global audience. A huge thank you to members of the Human […]
Biomechatronics Lab doctoral student Kenneth Gutierrez co-authored a paper titled, “Elastohydrodynamic friction of robotic and human fingers on soft micropatterned substrates,” which has been accepted for publication in the Nature Materials. This research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Lilian Hsiao (North Carolina State University) and Dr. Yon […]
Biomechatronics Lab doctoral student Shengxin Jia co-authored a paper titled, “Tactile perception for teleoperated robotic exploration within granular media,” which has been accepted for publication in the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI). This work was supported in part by Office of Naval Research Award N00014-16-1-2468 and Advanced […]
Dr. Santos was awarded $340k as part of a four-year grant to Dr. Laurel Riek, Director of the UC San Diego Healthcare Robotics Lab. The project is titled, “Robot-facilitated Health Equity in Post-Pandemic California and Beyond.” This award enables collaboration with research teams at UC San Diego, UCLA, […]
Biomechatronics Lab postdoctoral researcher Dr. Eunsuk Chong and doctoral student Lionel Zhang co-authored a paper titled, “A learning-based harmonic mapping: Framework, assessment, and case study of human-to-robot hand pose mapping,” which has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). This work was supported […]
Biomechatronics Lab doctoral students Xiaoyu Wang and Alireza Haji Fathaliyan co-authored a paper titled, “Toward shared autonomy control schemes for human-robot systems: Action primitive recognition using eye gaze features,” which has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Neurorobotics. This work was supported in part by Office of […]
We seek a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our research team immediately. The Postdoctoral Scholar will have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of projects involving the development of tactile perception algorithms and their use in the control of robot arms and grippers for haptic exploration, grasp, […]
Biomechatronics Lab member Kenneth Gutierrez co-authored a paper titled, “Perception of tactile directionality via artificial fingerpad deformation and convolutional neural networks,” which has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Haptics. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation. Citation: Gutierrez, K. and Santos, […]
We seek a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our research team immediately for a new project involving the marinization of multimodal tactile sensor skins and machine learning-based haptic perception. The research is experimentally intensive and requires the ruggedization and testing of elastomeric, microfluidic liquid metal sensors for underwater environments. […]
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