| Nov 25, 2024 | Great to see that my student’s poster paper has been accepted for the 12th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT2025). Congratulations to Charmaine! |
| Nov 09, 2024 | I am recruiting a PAID ‘student shaper’ to work on LLMs for gamified medical education. If you are a current Imperial College student and passionate software engineer and/or interested in medical technology, please apply here! |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Great to see my student presenting his MEng project on shape sensing for continuum robots at ICRA@40. Great work Murilo! |
| Sep 23, 2024 | It's fantastic to be representing the SiMMS lab with a 4 day demo stall at ICRA@40, showcasing our work in using haptics, robotics and AI to simulate physical medical examinations. Huge thanks to my students Zumeng, Prateek and Murilo for supporting the demos and represenring our lab so well! |
| Aug 22, 2024 | I was surprised and deeply honored to recieve joint second place in the 2023 UK Best PhD in Robotics Award, sponsored by my former university - Queen Mary University of London. |
| Aug 22, 2024 | I presented a summary of the results from my PhD at TAROS2024. |
| Jul 26, 2024 | Pleased that the full results of my work on non-pneumatic particle jamming have been accepted for the Advancing Soft, Tactile and Haptic Technologies: Recent Developments for Healthcare Applications special issue of Frontiers in Robotics and AI! Check out the fully open access article here! |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Another success for one of my students, this time at ICRA@40. Congratulations Murilo! |
| Jul 12, 2024 | I’ve been awarded funding from Imperial College to continue my work on prosthetics manufacturing in resource limited countries. Than you to the Department of Surgery and Cancer for the support! |
| Jul 11, 2024 | I co-chaired a meeting of the Imperial College Special Interest Group on XR in Education, and enjoyed sharing my work on combining XR and haptics in clinical skills teaching. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | I presented my student’s MEng project - Dermaphone - at EuroHaptics 2024. |
| Jun 30, 2024 | I enjoyed presenting my recent work on particle jamming-based soft haptics at the EuroHaptics 2024 workshop on Haptic Intelligence Embodied in Artificial Soft Systems. Huge thanks to Michaël Wiertlewski and Thomas Daunizeau for the invitation. Check out the video recording! |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Delighted to run the workshop “From virtual palpation to clinical integration: Exploring the role of touch in medicine and surgery” at the Hamlyn Symposium 2024. Amazing to see months of planning come to life! Many thanks to Prof. Roger Kneebone, Dr. Lynette Jones, Prof. Amy Kyungwon Han among many excellent speakers. |
| Jun 27, 2024 | It was great to present early results from my new project - POLAR: Prosthetics and Orthoses for Limited Access Regions - at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2024. |
| May 17, 2024 | Delighted that my student’s demo and WIP paper have been accepted for EuroHaptics 2024. Well done Aleera! |
| May 14, 2024 | Great to see Human Robotix featured by Process & Control Today! |
| Apr 19, 2024 | I am very excited to be awarded funding from the Imperial College Global Seed Fund and MIT International Science and Technonogy Initiative to work with Dr Lynette Jones and the Cutaneous Sensory Lab on the development of soft thermotactile displays. |
| Apr 18, 2024 | I had a great time presenting and demonstrating my work on mechanical and magnetic particle jamming at RoboSoft 2024! |
| Apr 10, 2024 | I was surprised and honored to recieve an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Haptics Symposium in Long Beach, California for my work on mechanical approaches to actuating particle jamming-based tactile displays. Thanks to my co-author, Prof Fernando Bello and the IET and Brain charity for funding my attendance! |
| Apr 07, 2024 | I presented a poster at the IEEE Haptics Symposium Cross-Cutting Challenges session on Frontiers of Softness in Science and Engineering. Many thanks to Prof Shogo Okamoto for the invitation! |
| Apr 01, 2024 | I enjoyed presenting a selection of recent research projects to members of the Healthcare Robotics (HeRo) Lab at Seoul National University in South Korea |
| Mar 26, 2024 | I was delighted to give a guest lecture about Haptics in Medicine on the Design and Control of Medical Robots course at Seoul National University. Many thanks to Prof Amy Han for the invitation and the students for such engaging and insightful questions! |
| Jan 19, 2024 | I was thrilled to be able to present some of my recent and ongoing research at the Korea-UK workshop on Haptics and Medical Robotics |