Excited to announce a new IEEE Transactions on #Robotics paper by my lab. We developed an $80 repairable barometric #tactile sensor with an effective resolution of 0.28mm (thanks to ML). youtube.com/watch?v=wCbOuu… Great work by (joint 1st authors) Jian Hou and Xin Zhou! 👏

How it feels when I open Matlab over PowerPoint during a lecture

I absolutely LOVE IEEE Spectrum's Video Friday, so it's really nice that they featured our recent work on barometric tactile sensing! Thanks a lot Evan Ackerman! spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-e… #Robotics #tactilesensing #machinelearning

A few weeks back I had a little rant about PhD applications that refer to papers that are irrelevant to the candidate's proposed intrests. Some people on LinkedIn thought I was being unreasonable, so I annotated an application email I received today. #PhD #academia

A new shape-changing device from MakeSense_Tech can help those with visual impairments perform a location task just as well as sighted people. This new device could shape the future of navigation tech for those with visual impairments ⬇️ imperial.ac.uk/news/259154/sh…

As a mathematician, I must repost this every Christmas season. I don’t make the rules

Very cool to see our latest Shape-changing #haptics work as at New Scientist video feature! 😎 New Scientist youtu.be/9PU7HfpmYsc?si… via YouTube

There's nothing like #ICRA2025 decision emails appearing a few days early to suddenly raise your heart rate! 💜 2 out of 3 accepted for our lab this year. It appears that this round of reviewers really like variable friction grippers. I mean, who doesn't?! ;-) See you in Atlanta!

This made me chuckle😆 I haven't published a paper related to surgery in about a decade. Also, clicking unsubscribe brings up a 'malicious website' warning.

🚀 Something exciting is coming... Imperial College London is delighted to announce the launch of its inaugural Robotics Summer School taking place from 21st – 25th July! Join this opportunity to dive into the world of robotics together with all of our very best roboticists.

In the run up to #ICRA2025 I've decided to gradually post the graphical abstracts from my lab. The first is from Qiyang (Roy) Yan et al and presents a neat method for achieving IHM with variable friction grippers using a combination of RL, IL and diffusion. #robotics #grippers

The 2nd #ICRA2025 graphical abstract is from Igor Bodnar & accompanies his paper on proprioceptively determining object shape and size via in-hand-manipulation with a variable friction #robotic gripper. The neat thing is the method doesn't require tactile or visual sensors.

I arrived in Atlanta for #ICRA2025 yesterday. After failing to figure out public transport at the airport, I jumped in a cab to my hotel. The driver had covered their speedometer with a big sticker of the Virgin Mary😬

Great job by my PhD student Qihan Yang, who just gave his first presentation at a #haptics conference. If you squint, you can just about see him to the left of the *gigantic* screen! At #WHC2025 in Suwon, South Korea 🇰🇷