U of U and Meta Launch Research to Enable Tetraski and Smart Home Control via Accessible EMG Wristband...
Read MoreUtah NeuroRobotics Lab NSF Grant
The Utah NeuroRobotics Lab received notice of award from the NSF for a new collaborative project with Dr. Mark Brinton at Elizabethtown College! This 3-year $423,768 project is focused on the development of biomimetic noninvasive electrocutaneous and transcutaneous stimulation for upper-limb amputees. The funding will also support unique training experiences between the University of Utah … Continue reading...
Read More$50,000 Digital Health Grant
The Utah NeuroRobotics Lab was just awarded a $50,000 digital health grant to pivot our research into the mental health arena. EMG is typically recorded from the forearm to classify hand gestures/kinematics, but now we are using EMG from the wrist, in the form of a smartwatch, to predict activities of daily living. We think … Continue reading...
Read MoreNew Clinical Trial for Upper-Limb Exoskeleton
The Utah NeuroRobotics Lab just signed a $940K contract to investigate the benefits of a powered myoelectric upper-limb orthosis for stroke patients with hemiparesis. New Clinical Trial for Upper-Limb Exoskeleton ...
Read MoreDr. Zhang Receives Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
Haohan Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Center faculty, received the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from Office of Undergraduate Research at the University of Utah....
Read MoreRobotics Center Faculty Join ARPA-H Project to Develop Fully Automated Surgical Robot
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Read MoreJake George Awarded College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher
Robotics faculty, Jake George received the 2024 Price College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher award from Dean Musgrave....
Read MoreHermans’ and Abbott’s ISRR 2017 papers accepted
Two papers by robotics faculty were recently accepted to the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR): “Planning Multi-Fingered Grasps as Probabilistic Inference in a Learned Deep Network” by Qingkai Lu, Kautilya Chenna, Balakumar Sundaralingam, and Tucker Hermans. “Controlling Homogeneous Microrobot Swarms In Vivo Using Rotating Magnetic Dipole Fields”, by Jake J. Abbott and Henry C. Fu ...
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