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Design and Manipulation

With our focus on long-term experimentation and evaluation, our research will advance new innovations in robot design and manipulation, in both the mechanical structures and AI capabilities.

Our areas of focus include kinematics, soft robotics, compliant actuation, affordances, object manipulation and grasp strategies.

Projects

Concentric Tube Robot (CTR)

Concentric Tube Robot (CTR)

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Constant force device for partial body weight support

Constant force device for partial body weight support

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Design and Development of Autonomous Airships

Design and Development of Autonomous Airships

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Eye Kinematics

Eye Kinematics

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Path Planning of Parallel Manipulators

Path Planning of Parallel Manipulators

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Quasi-Passive Knee Exoskeleton for Knee Osteoarthritis

Quasi-Passive Knee Exoskeleton for Knee Osteoarthritis

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Reconfigurable Spherical Motion Generator (RSMG)

Reconfigurable Spherical Motion Generator (RSMG)

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Remote Centre of Motion (RCM) Mechanism

Remote Centre of Motion (RCM) Mechanism

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Robotic Transverse Profiler

Robotic Transverse Profiler

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Soft robotic prosthetic hand

Soft robotic prosthetic hand

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Vision-based railway inspection system

Vision-based railway inspection system

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