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 […]
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 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. […]
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 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 […]
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