Organizers

Ziwei Wang is a Lecturer in Robotics at Lancaster University and a member of the Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre (LIRA). He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, China. Prior to joining Lancaster University, he worked as a Research Associate with the Human Robotics Group in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, U.K. He is also a Visiting Scholar at King’s College London, UK. His main research interests and expertise span a broad range of areas in teleoperation systems, human sensorimotor augmentation, and human-robot interaction, aiming at enhancing human sensorimotor capability and overall robotic system performance.

Bo Xiao received the Ph.D. degree in robotics (control sciences and engineering) from the Department of Informatics, King’s College London, London, U.K., in 2018. He is currently a Research Associate with the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K. During the period 2017 to 2018, he was a Research Fellow with Advanced Robotics Centre and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. His current research interests include fuzzy model-based control systems, interval type-2 fuzzy logic, polynomial control systems, machining learning, reinforcement learning and their applications in medical robotics.

Angela Faragasso has been working in different fields of robotics applications, such as humanoids, rescue and medical. What has always been a constant in her research, is the use of image processing algorithms to perform autonomous control or to understand properties of the object in the environment, i.e. stiffness, in real-time

Eiichi Yoshida (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in precision machinery engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1996.,He then joined former Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, later in 2001 reorganized as National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. He was a Co-Director of AIST-CNRS Joint Robotics Laboratory (JRL), LAAS- CNRS, Toulouse, France, from 2004 to 2008, and with AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, from 2009 to 2021. Since 2022, he has been Professor with the Department of Applied Electronics, Faculty of Advanced Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include robot task and motion planning, human modeling, humanoid robotics, and advanced logistics technology.,Dr. Yoshida is currently a member of RSJ, SICE, and JSME and is also a Senior Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

De Mi is an Associate Professor in future communication systems and Head of the Future Information Networks (FINET) Research Cluster with the School of Computing and Digital Technology at Birmingham City University (BCU). He received the B.Eng. degree (2011) from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, the M.Sc. degree (2012) from the Imperial College London and the Ph.D. degree (2017) from the University of Surrey, U.K. Prior to joining BCU, he worked with the Institute for Communication Systems at the University of Surrey. He is also a Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His main research interests and expertise span a broad range of areas in communications theory and signal processing for wireless communications. He is currently leading and coordinating research activities and overseeing major projects in BCU, including B5G/6G radio access techniques, radio access network architecture and protocols, hypercomplex signal processing, next-generation broadcast and multicast communications and future open networks.

Joao Bimbo received the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in robotics from King's College London, London, U.K., in 2016.,He is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Advanced Robotics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy. His research interests include robot grasping, tactile sensing, and perception of objects’ properties during manipulation.

Haolin Fei is a PhD student in robotics at Lancaster University, currently working at the Advanced Robotic Teleoperation Lab. He has been awarded a studentship on a UKRI project funded by TWI Ltd and the Lloyds Register Foundation. Haolin holds a BEng degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Honours of the First Class from the University of Glasgow, as well as a BEng degree in Electronic Information Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2020. He is an active member of the Lancaster Intelligent Robots and Autonomous Systems Center (LIRA), the Joining 4.0 Innovation Centre (J4IC) at TWI and the National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) in Cambridge. His research interests and expertise encompass various areas of human-robot interaction, robot learning, teleoperation systems, and robot visual servoing. Haolin is focused on enhancing overall robot intelligence and developing next-generation human-robot interactive platforms.