Research

This work presents a portable, soft robotic glove designed to augment hand rehabilitation and/or offer assistance to individuals with functional grasp pathologies. The robotic glove utilizes (read more...)

Soft fluidic actuators consisting of elastomeric matrices with embedded flexible materials are of particular interest to the robotics community because they are affordable and can be easily customized (read more...)

Soft robots actuated by inflation of a pneumatic network (a “pneu-net”) of small channels in elastomeric materials are appealing for producing sophisticated motions with simple controls. Although current (read more...)

The mechanical contact of the catheter tip with the cardiac walls is seen to be an important, missing parameter that could quantify the quality of an ablation point and thus make the procedure more reliable. With the (read more...)

This project presents an endeavour to mimic human vision by designing, building and controlling a robotic head with stereo-vision that uses low-priced web cameras, motors and controller. The objectives are to investigate and to compare different existing pan-tilt mechanisms (read more...)

History has shown that robots are usually used in environments where a human cannot cope to work. Greenhouses are considered to be such environments where humans are called to perform hazardous and tedious works. Therefore, there is a pressing need to use robots in greenhouses in order to perform tasks (read more...)