Key words: Hands; Grasping; Dexterous manipulation; Robotics; Bioinspired design; Soft and multi-material mechanisms; Skin; Contact conditions; Tactile sensing; Haptics; Granular material; Dynamics; Wearables and exoskeletons.
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2021 Announcements
[Presentation] June: Prof. Stuart gives a seminar with the NASA Johnson Space Center on recent work on granular media.
[Congratulations!] June: Wilson Torres wins the H2H8 Association Graduate Research Grant.
[Presentation] June: Jungpyo Lee, Laura Treers and Michael Abbott each present separate papers (grasping with the back of the hand, 3D Granular RFT, and body-powered grasp kinesthetics respectively) at ICRA 2021.
[Publication] May: new article on a smart tactile-sensing vacuum gripper released on arXiv.
[Grant] May: Prof. Stuart initiates a project with the InnoHK Centre for Industrial Robotics
[Congratulations!] April: Cyndia Cao wins the 2021 ASCE Earth & Space Conference Best Student Paper Competition
[Grant] February: Prof. Stuart receives the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D grant.
[Publication] February: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters article on 3D granular RFT modelling. To be presented at IEEE ICRA 2021.
[Presentation] January: Juan Romero and Sebastian Lee present work at the 2021 Society of Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting
[Presentation] January: Michael Abbott presents work at the 3rd Annual NorCal Controls Workshop
Prior Announcements (since 2018)
2020
[Presentation] November: Bay Area Robotics Symposium
[Publication] September: The Open Source Ocean One Hand design files published Junlong Li on lab Github page
[Grant] August: Prof. Stuart receives the NASA Early Career Faculty grant.
[Presentation] July: Drew McPherson presents work at IEEE EMBS 2020
[Publication] June: IEEE Robotics and Automations Letters article on the design of skin for grasping with lubricated contact. Monica Li presents the work at IEEE ICRA 2020.
[Grant] June: Prof. Stuart selected for the Hellman Fellows Fund grant.
[Presentation] May: Michael Abbott and Philippe Nadeau present work at IEEE ICRA 2020
[Congratulations!] April: Juan Romero wins the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
[Congratulations!] April: Wilson Torres wins the McMurtry Fellowship, and the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award
[Update] March: Shelter-in-place takes effect due to COVID-19 pandemic
[Field test] March: Monica Li, Mohammad Kamil Shams and Prof. Hannah Stuart perform field tests in Moorea, French Polynesia in collaboration with CRIOBE and Prof. Vincent Crueze
[Presentation] January: Laura Treers presents work at the 2020 Society of Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting in Austin, TX
[Publication] January: Review article on Hands in the Real World
2019
[Presentation] November: Juan Romero and Prof. Hannah Stuart present research in Macau. Prof. Stuart co-hosts two workshops at IROS 2019.
[Presentation] November: Bay Area Robotics Symposium
[Press] October: Prof. Hannah Stuart interviewed for the an article for kids on jellyfish grasper work
[Presentation] October: Prof. Hannah Stuart presents work at the IEEE HUMANOIDS conference in Toronto, Canada
[Presentation] July: Prof. Vincent Crueze of LIRMM gives a Seminar Talk, hosted by EDG
[CFP] June: Call for Participation — Automation in Construction full day workshop at IROS 2019
[CFP] June: Call for Participation — Marine Bio-inspired Soft Robotics full day workshop at IROS 2019
[Presentation] June: Prof. Hannah Stuart presents work at IEEE OCEANS 2019 conference in Marseilles, France
[Presentation] June: Jessica Leu presents work at the IEEE EMBS conference
[Presentation] May: Laura Treers presents work at the NSF Bioinspired Geotechnics Workshop in Monterrey, CA
[Grant] April: Prof. Stuart (Berkeley) and Prof. Wainwright (Davis) selected for the CITRIS People and Robots seed grant.
[Congratulations!] April: Michael Abbott wins the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
[Congratulations!] April: Laura Treers wins the DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
[Congratulations!] April: Monica Li wins the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
[Publication] February: ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics article on Spinyhand
[Press] January: Prof. Hannah Stuart interviewed for an article in the Marin Independent Journal on coral sampling technology
2018
[Presentation] November: Monica Li and Prof. Hannah Stuart present at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium
[Publication] November: IEEE Transactions on Robotics article on fingertip suction flow for underwater hands
[CFP] October: Call for Participation — Submit to Frontiers in Robotics and AI special topic “Hands in the Real World”
[CPF] June: Call for Participation — Hands in the Real World full day workshop at IROS 2018
[Presentation] June: Prof. Stuart presents work at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
[Update] April: UR-10 robot arm arrives in lab
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