The Biomechatronics Lab is featured in a Los Angeles Times article titled, “$100-million gift to UCLA shows growing role of private donors in public universities,” written by Teresa Watanabe. Biomechatronics Lab members Shengxin Jia and Lionel Zhang demonstrates their work on haptic perception in granular media. [Credit for […]
Dr. Santos was awarded $150k as part of a one-year grant to United Technologies Research Center from the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute. The project is titled, “Precise Packing with Intelligence.” This award enables collaboration with research teams at United Technologies Research Center and RE2 Robotics. The goal […]
Dr. Santos was awarded $525k, as part of a $3M, three-year grant to RE2 Robotics from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research. The project is titled, “STARFISH: Strong Tactile mARitime hand for Feeling, Inspecting, Sensing, and Handling.” This award enables collaboration with the research teams […]
The Biomechatronics Lab has received its new teleoperated bimanual mobile manipulator, which features robotics technology from Clearpath, Robotiq, SynTouch, Carnegie Robotics, and RE2 Robotics. System integration was performed by RE2 Robotics as part of a $1.4M research instrumentation grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval […]
Dr. Santos was featured in the 2018 edition of “25 women in robotics you need to know about” by Andra Keay, Hallie Siegel, and Sabine Hauert published at Robohub.org. The complete list can be viewed at this weblink.
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 […]
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