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 […]
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, […]
Biomechatronics Lab postdoctoral researcher Dr. Eunsuk Chong and doctoral student Lionel Zhang co-authored a paper titled, “A learning-based harmonic mapping: Framework, assessment, and case study of human-to-robot hand pose mapping,” which has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). This work was supported […]
Biomechatronics Lab doctoral students Xiaoyu Wang and Alireza Haji Fathaliyan co-authored a paper titled, “Toward shared autonomy control schemes for human-robot systems: Action primitive recognition using eye gaze features,” which has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Neurorobotics. This work was supported in part by Office of […]
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 […]
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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