Nathan Lepora
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@nathanlepora
Professor of Robotics & AI. Lead for Dexterous Robotics Group. Based in @BristolRobotLab @BristolEngMaths @BristolUniEng. Into brains, hands & robots
Can robots mimic the human sense of touch? Read the new #Interface article 'Artificial SA-I and RA-I afferents for tactile sensing of ridges and gratings': ow.ly/acQJ50IHsam @nathanlepora #robotics #biomimetics
The 26 projects in Robot Dexterity are exploring innovations in hardware to make robots more widely useful. Together, they'll create novel components, develop ‘hands', improve control integration + validate them against real-world challenges. ↓ link.aria.org.uk/rd-creators-x
Don't get too excited about videos of humanoid robots dancing. Manipulation is the hard problem we need to solve to make humanoid robots useful, not locomotion. One video of a humanoid slowly performing tasks with its hands is worth a dozen clips of choreographed routines.
Time to call in the Humans to clean this up.. 😂
Unlock the future of robotics at the 6th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop! 🤖 📅 Jan 7-8, 2025 📍 King’s College London Become a sponsor or an exhibitor and make your mark! Learn more and secure your spot: loom.ly/1V0bJ5k
Personal update! I've recently started my internship at @GoogleDeepMind as a PhD Student Researcher. Feeling incredibly grateful and excited to meet and work alongside such amazing people! 😊 🎉
🥳📜 Our paper "Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it" was accepted at #3DV! We reconstruct objects in sim & real using vision, tactile sensing, and 3D Gaussian Splatting. If you're interested in 3D reconstruction in the real world, give it a look! arxiv.org/abs/2403.20275
How does rich tactile sensing help with in-hand manipulation? In our #CorL2024 work, we introduce AnyRotate, a tactile robotic system for general in-hand object rotation about any desired rotation axis and is robust to any hand direction. Web: maxyang27896.github.io/anyrotate/ More👇
