Utah 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...

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$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...

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New 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  ...

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Hermans’ 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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