Event type:

In person

Date & time:

11 Jun 2021, 13:00 – 14:00

Spring into STEM | Soft Robotics – Hard Problems | Virtual Lecture Series

Explore how Haptics and Soft Robotics can help ensure safe human-robot interaction

A human hand interacting with a robotic hand
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Spring into STEM | Soft Robotics – Hard Problems | Virtual Lecture Series

Dr Helge Wurdemann

Lecturer in Medical Devices, Associate Professor

UCL Mech Eng

Helge Wurdemann is a roboticist and Associate Professor of Robotics leading research on soft haptics and robotics at UCL Mechanical Engineering. He is also Co-Director of the Intelligent Mobility at UCL (IM@UCL) lab, a full-size driving simulator. His Soft Haptics group focuses on the hardware design and application of soft material robotic systems that have the ability to change their shape and stiffness on demand bridging the gap between traditional rigid and entirely soft robots. Dr Wurdemann creates and embeds innovative stiffness-controllable mechanisms as well as combine advanced Artificial Intelligence with control strategies in robotic prototypes emerging from his lab.

Dr Wurdemann has authored/co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. The majority of his journal papers are in the top journals of the field, including top transactions and journals of the IEEE and ASME and proceedings of the leading national learned societies in the field, IMechE and IET. He has published his research findings in refereed conference papers in the proceedings of leading conferences in his field. He currently is Associate Editor for prestigious robotics conferences (ICRA and IROS) and serves as Associate VP within the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Conference Activities Board and as member of the IET Robotics and Mechatronics TPN Executive Board. He is Co-General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023, the premium robotics conference, which will be hosted for the first time in the UK.
 

Further information

Ticketing

Open

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Rosie Curtis

rosie.curtis@ucl.ac.uk

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