New Research: Editorial: Interfacing Humans and Machines for Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #Robotics #AI

How to bring exoskeletons to the workplace🤔? Here is a roadmap to support large-scale adoption of this exciting technology🦾! Congrats to Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero and Michiel de Looze in their participation in authoring this Cambridge University article👏🎉 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our Research Topic, "Interfacing Humans and Machines for Rehabilitation and Assistive Devices" (19 articles), has been finalized Frontiers in Robotics and AI e-book frontiersin.org/research-topic… Great collab Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero BruBotics VUB Eduardo Rocon gNec CSIC Jan Veneman @hocoma Center for Biomechatronics @Escuelaing

In our latest paper we examine the effects of using the Exo4Work exoskeleton. Anterior deltoid activity and fatigue were reduced up to 16% and 41%, respectively. BruBotics VUB Sander De Bock Kevin De Pauw Joost Geeroms Romain Meeusen ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/97353…

Before you feel drawn to be enchanted by the apparent intelligence of slime molds, compare with this baseline. Very simple mechanical search can look surprisingly agentic.

Great publication from the EXO4Work consortium on the effect of Exoskeletons on musculoskeletal loading in occupational settings. Well done Tuur & Team! with support of FWO authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

E4W passive shoulder exoskeleton reduces musculoskeletal loading🦴 in shoulder and elbow during tasks above shoulder height🏋️‍♀️(combined effect of exoskeleton assistance and small kinematic changes) doi.org/10.1016/j.aper… Thank you ilse jonkers @SamVanRossom Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero FWO

A new PhD in the making...good luck Marco Rossini!

Physical fatigue alters how overhead work is performed. Passive shoulder exoskeleton partially mitigated those fatigue-induced alterations. OA full text: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Very happy with this multidisciplinary teamwork!

Our Exo4Work shoulder #exoskeleton evaluation is now published in IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society #TBME! 🔗ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/97353… The exo reduced acute physical fatigue at the shoulder during overhead work. But discomfort increased ➡️ let's improve interfaces in a future prototype iteration 🤩

Find out about a robotic leg exoskeleton that can be optimized in real-world conditions in this N&V by Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero Groep T go.nature.com/3SUfKnq

I am looking for an enthusiastic Ph.D. student for a legged robot and manipulation project at my group at KU Leuven, Belgium. Research at the intersection of control and mechanical design. The Ph.D. position is fully funded. Interested? Apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

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At the Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) at KU Leuven we’re looking for an enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to help us developing AI-empowered steerable and collaborative surgical robots. Interested? Please visit the link: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

Highly recommended! Two PhD positions to join the lab of my colleague benjamin gorissen. Great scientist and mentor, killing it on soft robotics. Come, join us at Kuleuven!

If you as a teacher, want to ban chatGPT, I have bad news for you… you need to change your ways.

Learning to change That time US math teachers staged a "calculated protest" against calculator us in elementary classrooms. It was 1986 [read more: buff.ly/3M2Owum]

Turing test, peeling grapes… Tests that once were thought to be impossible for robots. What now, voight kampff?? 👀 🤖