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Dr Nicolas Rojas Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London Postdoc Yale University, USA; Postdoc SUTD-MIT IDC, Singapore; PhD UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain (Robotics) |
Postdocs |
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Dr Icey Lu (q.lu17 at imperial.ac.uk) Visiting postdoctoral researcher Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London Academy for Engineering & Technology, Fudan University PhD Imperial College London (Robotics); MSc University of Bristol (Robotics); BEng University of Bristol (Mech Eng) Research areas: Robot hand design, Dexterous manipulation, Grasping |
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Digby Chappell (d.chappell19 at imperial.ac.uk) PhD student (Co-supervised with Dr Petar Kormushev and Prof. Fernando Bello) Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London MEng University of Cambridge (Computer Engineering) Research area: Prosthetic and assistive devices (Prosthetic hands) |
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Wei Chen (w.chen21 at imperial.ac.uk) PhD student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London MSc King's College London (Robotics); BEng Taiyuan University of Technology, China (Mech Des & Automation) Research area: Grasping, Dexterous manipulation (Deformable objects) |
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Xiaoshuai Chen (c.xiaoshuai19 at imperial.ac.uk) PhD student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London MRes Imperial College London (Medical Robotics); BEng Queen's University Belfast (Mech Eng); BEng Chongqing University, China (Mechatronics) Research area: Dexterous manipulation |
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Dongmyoung Lee (d.lee20 at imperial.ac.uk) PhD student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London MSc KAIST, South Korea (Mech Eng); BSc KAIST, South Korea (Mech Eng) Research area: Grasping, Robot hand design (Deformable objects) |
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Kelin Li (k.li20 at imperial.ac.uk) PhD student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London MSc Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Mech Eng); BSc Hunan University, China (Mech Des & Automation) Research areas: Grasping, Dexterous manipulation (Household objects) |
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Michele Tonan (m.tonan23 at imperial.ac.uk) Visiting PhD student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova MSc/BSc Univerity of Padova, Italy (Mech Eng) Research areas: Robot mechanisms, Robot hand design |
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Xinran Wang (xinran.wang20 at imperial.ac.uk) PhD student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London MSc University of Birmingham (CompSci); BSc Virginia Tech, USA (Mech Eng) Research areas: Continuum robots, Malleable robots |
Alumni |
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Eva Cheung MSc student Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London BEng University of Reading (Biomedical Eng) 2021-22 Research area: Prosthetic and assistive devices (Prosthetic hands) MSc project: Examine the influence of the design characteristics, motor latency and prostheses weight, on motor dexterity and user experience in Upper Limb Prostheses |
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Neil Patel UROP student, MEng Design Engineering Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London 2022, EPSRC Vacation Bursary Research area: Robot hand design ► Year 3, MEng DesEng, Imperial College London |
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Angus Clark PhD student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London MEng University of Southampton (Mech Eng/Mechatronics) 2017-22 Research areas: Malleable robots, Robot hand design, Prosthetic and assistive devices (Prosthetic hands) PhD thesis: Malleable robots: Continuously bending reconfigurable robot manipulators for flexible handling and assembly ► Senior Robotics Research Engineer, Dyson |
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Zeyu Yang UROP student, MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London 2020-22 Research area: Prosthetic and assistive devices (Prosthetic hands) ► PhD student, University of Oxford |
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Manith Adikari MEng final year student Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London 2021-22 Research area: Tactile dexterity MEng project: Robotic object identification with tactile sensing and machine learning |
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Ta Ji MEng final year student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London 2021-22 Research area: Prosthetic and assistive devices (Prosthetic hands) MEng project: M-EPT: A modular electromyography controlled painting tool for OLYMPIC Hand |
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Kiran Ravi MEng final year student (Co-supervised with Prof. Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London 2021-22 Research area: Continnum robots (Medical robots) MEng project: Towards an everting robot for colonoscopy procedures |
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Christopher Vail MEng final year student (Co-supervised with Dr Marco Aurisicchio) Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London 2021-22 Research area: Dexterous manipulation (Household objects) MEng project: Synthetic scene generation for precision unscrewing tasks: First steps towards robotic disassembly of WEEE ► Software Developer, PolyMetrix |
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Xian Zhang MEng final year student Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London 2021-22 Research area: Grasping (Planning) MEng project: Integrated grasp and motion planning controller for novel multi-finger robot gripper ► Associate Consultant, ZS |
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Dr Nicholas Baron Postdoc, PhD student, MSc student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London PhD University of Sussex (Informatics); MSc University of Sussex (Mech Eng); BSc University of Bristol (Physics) 2016-21 Research areas: Grasping, Robot mechanisms MSc project: Design and construction of a planar-parallel robotic platform that is able to avoid the production of singulairities PhD thesis: Kinematically redundant parallel robots for high performance applications ► Mechatronics Engineer, Ocado Technology |
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Alex Ranne UROP student, MEng Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London 2020-21 Research area: Malleable robots (Human-robot interaction) ► PhD student, Imperial College London |
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Jinhong Wang UROP student, MEng Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London 2019-21 Research area: Robot hand design, Grasping ► PhD student, Imperial College London |
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Sanjeevan Nallathambbi MSc student Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London BEng University of New South Wales, Australia (Aerospace Eng) 2019-20 Research area: Robot mechanisms MSc project: Design of a robotic arm for aerial manipulation with reduced dynamic complexities ► Manufacturing Engineer, Micron Technology |
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Visakan Mathivannan MEng final year student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London 2019-20 Research area: Continuum robots MEng project: An open source low cost continuum robot system for accessible transluminal endoscopic surgery ► Product Manager, Atmo Technology |
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Soheil Sarabandi Visiting PhD student Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics, UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain MSc Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran (Mech Eng); BSc Islamic Azad University, Iran (Mech Eng) 2019-20 Research area: Dexterous manipulation (Soft fingertips) ► Postdoc, University of Pisa |
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Aida Manzano Kharman UROP student, MEng Design Engineering Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London 2019-20, EPSRC Vacation Bursary Research area: Robot mechanisms (Reconfigurable modular robots) ► Year 3, MEng DesEng, Imperial College London |
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Matthew Shen UROP student, MSci Physics Department of Physics, Imperial College London 2018-20 Research area: Prosthetic and assistive devices (Exoskeletons) ► MPhil student, University of Cambridge |
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Lois Liow MEng final year student Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London 2018-19 Research area: Prosthetic and assistive devices (Prosthetic hands) MEng project: OLYMPIC, a modular prosthetic hand with novel finger and wrist coupling mechanisms ► Robotics Engineer, Simonix Digital Labs |
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Dr Guochao Bai Postdoc Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London PhD Heriot-Watt University (Mech Eng); PhD BUPT, China (Mechatronics); BEng University of Jinan, China (Mech Eng) 2018-19 Research area: Robot hand design ► Founder, ChangingTek |
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Yat (Gordon) Cheung UROP student, MEng Design Engineering Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London 2017-19 Research area: Robot mechanisms (Parallel robots) ► Year 4, MEng DesEng, Imperial College London |
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Hamish Beck UROP student, MSci Physics Department of Physics, Imperial College London 2017, EPSRC Vacation Bursary Research area: Dexterous manipulation (Soft fingertips) ► Year 4, MSci Physics, Imperial College London |
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Annagiulia Morachioli Visiting PhD student (Co-supervised with Dr Marco Aurisicchio) The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy MSc/BSc University of Pisa, Italy (Biomedical Eng) 2017 Research area: Dexterous manipulation (Human manipulation) ► Project Manager, Shadow Robot Company |
Contact us
REDS Lab
Dyson School of Design Engineering
Imperial College London
25 Exhibition Road
South Kensington
London
SW7 2DB
For more information about the REDS Lab, please contact Dr Nicolas Rojas.