We seek to hire a Project Scientist and an R&D Engineer with robotics experience to join our research team immediately. The incumbents will utilize expertise in robotics, mechatronics, coding, and software to assist with tactile-driven robot experiments and the development and testing of shared autonomy human-robot systems having […]
We seek to hire two R&D Engineers with robotics experience to join our research team immediately. The R&D Engineers will utilize expertise in robotics, mechatronics, coding, and software to assist with tactile-driven robot experiments and the development and testing of shared autonomy, human-robot systems having remote human operators […]
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 […]
Biomechatronics Lab members Shengxin Jia and Lionel Zheng co-authored a paper entitled, “Autonomous tactile localization and mapping of objects buried in granular materials,” which has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under […]
Biomechatronics Lab member Yi Zheng co-authored a paper entitled, “Autonomous learning of page flipping movements via tactile feedback,” which has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. This research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) and Dr. Filipe […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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