Welcome to the Vision in Human Robotics Lab
Welcome to the Vision in Human Robotics Lab
Embedded Files
The Vision in Human Robotics lab develops intelligent algorithms to empower individuals with mobility disorders. Using visual cues capable of understanding various aspects of human states, we seek to infer and enhance movement capabilities in real-world settings.
Office #1
BH(N) 5.19,
Bush House, Strand Campus,
30, Aldwych,
London WC2B 4BG
Office #2
Floor 9,
Becket House, Waterloo Campus,
1 Lambeth Palace Rd, Southbank,
London SE1 7EU
News
January 2026: Dr Letizia Gionfrida gave a talk in the King's College London Robotics Symposium on Vision-based robotics for mobility assistance: Human-robot interaction and assistive technology.
January 2026: paper "OVGrasp: Open-Vocabulary Grasping Assistance via Multimodal Intent Detection" was accepted by CVIU.
January 2026: collaborative paper "Wearable Technologies for Assisted Mobility in the Real World" was accepted by Nature Communications!
December 2025: Paper "Embodied Intelligence in Wearable Robotics" was accepted by Embodied Intelligence 2026.
November 2025: ExoGlove was presented by Chen Tyrone Hu at King's College London Symposium 2026.
August 2025: MultiClear was recognised with the Best Paper Award at TAROS 2025!
August 2025: our NeuroHand project was funded by UKRI!
August 2025: paper "Perspectives of Post-stroke Survivors on a Soft ExoGlove: Insights from a PPI Enhancement Event" was accepted by BMES.
August 2025: paper "MultiClear: Multimodal Soft Exoskeleton Glove for Transparent Object Grasping Assistance" was accepted by the 26th TAROS.
June 2025: paper "Point Cloud-based Grasping for Soft Hand Exoskeleton" was accepted by the IEEE RA-L!
June 2025: our ExoGlove won 3rd place in EUREKA! Engineers in Business Competition 2025!
May 2025: Two papers accepted at ICORR 2025! Shirui Eric Lyu will be presenting them in Chicago.
April 2025: The proposal "Automated Detection of Swollen Joints in Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Cameras" has been funded by the EPSRC Impact Accelerator Award.
March 2025: Grant awarded from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust with Dr Hammerbeck, Dr Di Giulio, Dr Chapman, and Dr Neate
March 2025: Chen Tyrone Hu presented at the NHS PPI meeting with productive feedback from stroke survivors.
February 2025: Grant awarded from the Private Physiotherapy Educational Foundation with Dr Ulrike Hammerbeck and Dr Irene Di Giulio for "Developing an accessible, cost effective motion analysis tool for arm movement after stroke".
January 2025: Dr Letizia Gionfrida Programme Chair of The 6th King's UK Manipulation Workshop at King's College where our latest ExoGlove was very popular.
December 2024: Chen Tyrone Hu delivered a presentation at the Algorithms and Data Analysis (ADA) Seminar at King;s College.
December 2024: Dr Letizia Gionfrida presents at the 60 Years of Robotics at Queen Mary.
November 2024: Chen Tyrone Gu presented the ExoGlove to Dr. Robert Katzschmann from the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich and to Damian Axford & Team from the Open Bionics.
November 2024: Secured PPEF funding to recruit a Research Assistant for a stroke rehabilitation project: apply here [CLOSED]
October 2024: Dr Gionfrida presents at the I-RIM at the Robotics Young Talents roundtable
September 2024: New article highlighting Dr Gionfrida work
August 2024: Dr Gionfrida was awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship
July 2024: Dr Gionfrida featured in The Engineer, here
June 2024: Chen Tyrone Hu delivered a talk at the ADA Research Day.
June 2024: Informatics research showcase, info available here
May 2024: paper titled "Wearable Robots for the Real World Need Vision" accepted in Science Robotics.
May 2024: paper titled "Muscle architecture parameters inferred from simulated single element ultrasound traces" accepted in BioRob 2024!
April 2024: paper "PointGrasp: Point cloud-based grasping for tendon-driven wearable robotic applications" was accepted by the HRI Workshop @ ICRA 2024 in Yokohama!
April 2024: The IEEE RAS TC on Computer & Robot Vision is organizing a mentorship event on faculty positions in robotics, sign up here [CLOSED]
April 2024: Shirui Eric Lyu PhD student in VHR Lab has been accepted as a participant in the ETH Robotics Summer School, well done Eric!
March 2024: The workshop titled "AI-Based Estimation and Control of Wearable Robotic Systems for Enhancing Human Mobility" has been accepted at the 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2024).
March 2024: The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) has officially a Special Issue focusing on 'Foundation Models and Neural-Symbolic AI for Robotics' with Dr. Gionfrida serving as one of the guest editors.
February 2024: The proposal "Affordable myoelectric hand prosthetic to improve user experiences and reduce abandonment rates" has been funded by the EPSRC Impact Accelerator Award.
January 2024: The workshop titled "Supervised Autonomy: how to Shape human-robot Interaction from the Body to the Brain" was accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024.
December 2023: Chen Tyrone Hu presented ExoGlove prototype to Dr. Maurice Fallon from the Dynamic Robot Systems Group at the University of Oxford.
December 2023: Welcome Shirui Eric Lyu, a new PhD student in VHR Lab working on the role of vision in realistic hand models, co-supervised with Dr. Vittorio Caggiano.
December 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida has received the prestigious Italy Made Me award at the Embassy of Italy in London, funded by Pirelli.
December 2023: Dr Letizia Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Dr. Maurice Fallon from the Dynamic Robot Systems Group at the University of Oxford.
December 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Dr. Antonia Creswell ex-research Scientist at Deep Mind and co-founder of BobbyChat a workplace wellbeing app.
November 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Abdoul Amadou, who delivered a talk on his work on deep learning and computer vision for healthcare at Siemens Healthineers.
November 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Dr. Tianhing Dai, who delivered a talk on his work on computer vision and reinforcement learning as a new Lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen.
October 2023: Welcome Chen Tyrone Hu, a new PhD student in VHR Lab working on contextually-aware wearable robots, co-supervised with Dr. Shan Luo.
October 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida delivered a talk at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023 with a talk titled: SLAM Based Active Mapping in Wearable Robotics (talk available here)
September 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida has extended an invitation to Dr. Vikash Kumar, who will be delivering a seminar titled: 'The Brain's Role in Decision-Making: Unveiling the Business Within.' Join us for this insightful online event (available here)!
September 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida is the co-organizer of the ICCV 2023 Workshop on Robot Learning and SLAM
September 2023: Paper presented at ICORR at the Rehabweek in Singapore.
August 2023: MRC DTP PhD studentship available on vision in soft tactile for contextual-aware activity recognition. More details here.
June 2023: One studentship on context-aware control of a wearable robotic system. More details here.
June 2023: One paper on improved fascicle length estimates from ultrasound was accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) 2023
June 2023: Two posters on vision-based environmental awareness at the CVWR workshop at ICRA 2023
June 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida is the co-organizer of the ICRA 2023 Computer Vision for Wearable Robotics (CVWR) Workshop (here)
June 2023: Dr. Letizia Gionfrida joins the Department of Informatics at King's College London as a Lecturer in Computer Vision!
Copyright © 2026 Vision in Human Laboratory, All Rights Reserved
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse