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 […]
The Biomechatronics Lab is featured in two Voice of America video reports: a Spanish language report on “El futuro de los robots táctiles” and an expanded English report on “More than a Feeling, Robots Developing Sense of Touch.” Kenneth Gutierrez demonstrates his work on haptic perception through handheld objects. […]
[[This position has now been filled.]] We seek a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our research team immediately for a new project involving the haptic search and retrieval of objects buried in granular media, bimanual manipulation, and shared autonomy teleoperation of field deployable robots. MINIMUM requirements: Ph.D. degree in […]
Dr. Santos was awarded a $1.4M grant from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research titled, “Field deployable, bimanual mobile manipulator system for research on haptics-enabled dexterous manipulation.” The grant complements a five-year, $1.6M research grant awarded in June 2016, also from the Office of Naval […]
Biomechatronics Lab alumni, Dr. Randall B. Hellman and Dr. Ruben Ponce Wong, were co-authors of a paper titled, “Discriminability of Single and Multichannel Intracortical Microstimulation within Somatosensory Cortex,” which has been published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, section on Bionics and Biomimetics. This research was conducted in collaboration with […]
The Biomechatronics Lab is featured in a Science News article titled, “For robots, artificial intelligence gets physical,” written by Meghan Rosen. Our robot testbed was also featured on the cover! The article highlights Dr. Randall Hellman’s haptics-driven reinforcement learning research, in collaboration […]
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