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, […]
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 […]
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