Welcome to EDG! We study the design of robots for real-word grasping and dexterous manipulation. Our specialty is the application of morphological computation to handle complex, sometimes adversarial, contact conditions in unstructured environments. This experimental research lab is a part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
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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Announcements
[Congratulations!] May: Justin Page completed his MS degree, and is off to a new position at NASA JPL.
[Congratulations!] May: EDG receives the NSF CAREER Award for the project CAREER: Robotic Augmentation of Human Reflexes and Reach through Collaborative Grasping
[Publication] May: Tay Myung Huh, et al. work on “Walk-Burrow-Tug: Legged anchoring analysis using RFT-based granular limit surfaces” published on IEEE Explore.
[Publication] April: Michael Abbott, et al. paper on “Characterizing the force-motion tradeoff in body-powered transmission design” preprinted at TechRXiv.
[Congratulations!] April: Incoming graduate student Andrew Galassi awarded the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity.
[Presentation] March: Laura Treers and Hannah Stuart present work at the American Physical Society Annual Meeting in the Session Robophysics: Robotics Meets Physics (DBIO, DSOFT).
[Congratulations!] March: Hannah Stuart becomes a Senior Member of IEEE.
[Publication] February: W.T. Yang, et al. work on mechanical modeling and optimal model-based design of a soft pneumatic actuator accepted for publication/presentation at IEEE RoboSoft.
[Presentation] February: Prof. Hannah Stuart moderated the event “Biologically-inspired soft robots for environmental sustainability” for the AI for Good (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals).
[Publication] January: Stanley Wang, et al. work on bioinspired tearing manipulation with a robotic fish accepted for publication/presentation at IEEE ICRA.
[Publication] January: Justin Page*, Laura Treers*, et al. work on tether friction in non-idealized terrains published on IEEE Explore.
[Press] October: EMBUR showcased on IEEE Spectrum “Friday Video.”
[Press] October: College of Engineering Press Release on EMBUR
[Publication] October: Laura and Prof. Stuart publish work on a mole-crab inspired robot, EMBUR, with co-authors Ben McInroe and Prof. Bob Full.
[Presentation] September: Prof. Stuart presents work at University of Maryland Robotics Center (recorded)
[Publication] August: Justin Page*, Laura Treers*, et al. publish preprint on harnessing tether friction for strong manipulations in non-idealized natural terrains.
[Presentation] August: Andrew McPherson and Prof. Stuart present work in workshops at BioRob 2022. Prof. Stuart also presents work at a seminar in Seoul National University.
[Publication] August: Wilson Torres, et al. publish preprint on a smartphone enabled vibration perception threshold diagnostic, with correlation with a clinical measure (monofilament score).
[Presentation] August: Prof. Stuart presents work at a seminar at UCLA.
[Update] August: The lab now has a drill press!
[Publication] July: Monica Li, et al. publish on a “singing” tactile sensor for soft hands in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
[Congratulations!] June: Andrew McPherson awarded the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship
[Presentation] May: Erin Chang presents new work at ICRA Tenodesis Grasp Emulator: Kinematic Assessment of Wrist-Driven Orthotic Control
[CFP] April: Upcoming workshop at RSS in July The Science of Bumping into Things: Towards Robots that Aren’t Afraid of Contact (speaker and poster participation available)
[Congratulations!] April: Justin Page wins the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
[Update] March: Motion capture installed in EDG for upper-body human subject studies
[Congratulations!] February: Prof. Stuart receives an Inclusive Excellence Champion Award with the College of Engineering
[Press] January: Berkeley News spotlights EDG’s work on assisted grasping and robot teamwork in space with the title “Robots are helping us overcome challenges” in the article “Reasons to be hopeful… in 2022.”
[Publication] January: The code developed in the 2021 3D Granular Resistive Force Theory work is now published Open-Source on GitHub.
[Publication] November: new article on the Tenodesis Grasp Emulator released on arXiv.
[Congratulations!] November: Jadesola Aderibigbe wins the Henry Lurie Family Fellowship.
[Presentation] October: Prof. Stuart, Tae Myung Huh and Jungpyo Lee present at the Bay Area Robotics Symposium.
[Presentation] October: Tae Myung Huh present smart suction cup work at IROS 2021.
[Congratulations!] February: Prof. Stuart receives the Don M. Cunningham Endowed Professorship
[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 Logistics 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
[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
[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
[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