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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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, […]
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