The Mechanisms and Kinematics Group led by Prof Jian Dai has been continuously working on the metamorphic robot hand since its invention in 2004. With the principle of metamorphosis, the novel design of the multifingered robot hand brought in an articulated palm which changes the traditional structure of robot hands with a rigid palm. The…
Dr. Matthew Howard from CoRe is taking the Wheatstone Innovation Laboratory (WLab) to the V&A museum– the world’s leading mu seum of art and design, for the Digital Design Weekend; the program has just been announced. Click here for more detail. Digital Design Weekend 2016 What : Special Events When : Saturday 24 and Sunday…
We are pleased to report that our last year’s project student Lukas Lindenroth has won the First Prize (Gold Medal) of the Mechatronics Students Prize Competition of 2016 organised by IMechE (Institution of Mechanical Engineers). Lukas also received the Project Award last year at the Department level. Lukas’ MSc project was supervised by Dr Hongbin…
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Sklar PhD student (Eric Schneider, enrolled at Univ of Liverpool) won the Best Student Paper prize at the UK flagship robotic conference- 17th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS-16) in June for the paper entitled “Evaluating Multi-Robot Teamwork in Varied Environments” by Eric Schneider (Liverpool), Elizabeth Sklar (KCL) and Simon Parsons (KCL). Vous pourriez devoir renoncer à…
Murad Ahmed explores how collaborative robots are being used in agriculture and manufacturing, and asks whether these machines will assist workers on the factory floor, or one day replace them? The documentary contains coverage of CoRe labs and an interview with Dr. Nanayakkara. Watch the full documentary here. Levitra verursacht fast keine Nebenwirkungen und die…
DESCRIPTION http://www.textilerobotics.org/ REGISTER While recent years have seen an increase in research on and advances in robotics and its different applications within the medical, industrial and service sections among others, there has been a similar trend in research on the use of textile as a means of sensing, communication and interfacing – leading to the…
CoRe members present eight papers in the upcoming IROS 2016 (The 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, Korea, October 9-14, 2016.) starting from tomorrow. The program is as follows: Day Time Paper Title or Activity Authors Session Tuesday, October 11, 2016 10:59-11:00 Fingertip Proximity Sensor with Realtime Visual-Based Calibration TuT11.15 Jelizaveta…
Wonderful presentations and a good opportunity to exchange ideas for CoRe members with two oral and three poster presentations in the 6th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery (CRAS) 2016, held in Pisa on September 12-14. And congrats to Dr. Angela Faragasso , et. al. for best poster award in CRAS 2016. Angela has been granted JSPS…
The Centre for Robotics Research (CORE) at King’s College is demonstrating the latest research that deals with a broad range of exciting topics. We will show how we see the future, and how robots can change our lives. You will see: soft robots that are created taking inspiration from the natural world and wildlife; wearable…
What kinds of things will robots do in future and what jobs will be left for the humans? The FT’s Maija Palmer puts the question to three London-based roboticists, including Dr. Elizabeth Sklar from KCL CoRe. Find out more about this podcast here. Las innovaciones médicas del siglo pasado y podrías beneficiarte de algunas de estas…
MOTION – Morphological Computation of Perception and Action Partners: King’s College London (lead organization), Cambridge University, Imperial College London, University of Surrey, Shadow Robotics Company, Rethink Robotics, Southern Scientific Ltd. Duration: 3 years (July 2016 – July 2019) Funding Body: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK Amount: £1.2 million Motivation: The recent Ebola…
On 3rd November at the Great Hall of King’s College London, Professor Jian S Dai, ASME Fellow and IMechE Fellow, was invited to give a Distinguished Lecture to the public on Robots of the Future that Are Shaped by Arts and Nature. More than 250 attendees signed up for the lecture delivered and the Great…
The Humanitarian Technologies Lab (HT Lab) exists to develop new technologies to deliver humanitarian assistance to people in need. It brings together a broad range of disciplines within CoRe, with its main areas of focus being: humanitarian demining and safe medicines. If you are not redirected automatically, follow the link.
Field Trials to Test an Explosives Detector to Remove Landmines left after Conflict- In collaboration with King’s College London, Dr Jamie Barras is raising funds to run field trials to test an explosive detector for clearing landmines. Dr. Jamie Barras is the head of humanitarian technologies lab in the Department of Informatics. He is running…
Learn about the UK’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems sector from leading innovators and academics such as Ian Stevens, Chief Executive Officer at Touch Bionics, Professor Kaspar Althoefer, Head of Centre for Robotics Research at Kings College, London, and Professor David Lane, Chair of the Robotics and Autonomous System Special Interest Group appearing via 3D hologram…
