Speaker: Prof. Bram Vanderborght, VUB and imec

Abstract: Human-robot collaboration has great potential to face societal challenges (as ageing population, need for better and healthier work) and create new economic markets.This for applications in health as exoskeletons, prostheses and social robots, and manufacturing with cobots, soft grippers and exoskeletons. Moreover by introducing self-healing materials, soft robots are produced that can heal damages, contributing to more sustainable robots. In this talk we will focus on the combination of embodied intelligence, model based control and AI techniques to make the robots safe and energy efficient, but also useful for human centred robotics. In this research is extensively collaborated with not only other technical fields as engineering, material sciences and AI/computer sciences, but also medical, human and social sciences.

Date & Time: April 19, 2024, 11:00 to 12:00

Location: B28 / R7