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Key words: Dexterous manipulation; Robotics; Bioinspired design; Soft and multi-material mechanisms; Skin contact conditions; Tactile sensing and haptics; Wearables and exoskeletons; Dynamics modelling.
Robotic devices face a rapidly expanding range of potential applications, including remote exploration and human assistance. In many of these cases, dexterous manipulation is at the heart of interactions. EDG researchers works to develop new technologies and design methods to improve these systems. Findings are validated experimentally in the lab and in the field.
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Joining EDG
Currently-enrolled UC Berkeley students:
Current Berkeley students are welcomed to email your interests and experience directly to Professor Stuart.
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Visiting student researchers are not being considered at this time. Apply through undergraduate or graduate admissions to become a UC Berkeley student first, or apply to conduct research through another established program.
2021 Announcements
[Congratulations!] April: Cyndia Cao wins the 2021 ASCE Earth & Space Conference Best Student Paper Competition
[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
[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.
[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
[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