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 member Xiaoyu Wang co-authored a paper entitled, “Gaze-based shared autonomy framework with real-time action primitive recognition for robot manipulators,” which has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval […]
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, […]
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 […]
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