<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Hi all,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial">Next Tuesday (16/01) </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Dr Micael Couceiro (University of Coimbra, Portugal and Ingeniarius Ltd (PT)) and Karen Tatarian (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">American University of Beirut, Lebanon</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">) will give a talk titled "</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Eyes on Transhumanism: A low-cost robotic prosthetic hand for academia". The talk will take place in </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13.3333px">G11 from 2pm to 3:30pm.</span></div><div><br></div><div>See the abstract below.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Luca</div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><div><br></div></span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Abstract</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Robotics and biomimetics have been exploiting the unique designs of the human body with the intent to develop disruptive anthropomorphic artificial appendages. Such endeavours are relevant for a multitude of applications, including limb prosthetics for amputees, robotic surrogates for underwater and space applications, and exoskeletons for military combat enhancement. Nevertheless, while lower extremity prosthetics have evolved to the point at which lower leg amputees may be competitive with the best runners in the world, there is still a gap between upper extremity prosthetics and real hands. This short-term R&D project intends to be a pioneer into developing a low-cost multipurpose robotic hand for research and academia, offering a high degree of functionality for electrical engineering students, closed-loop force control, computer science (e.g. learning-by-imitation with computer vision methods), biomedical engineering (e.g. myoelectric control), and others. This project encompasses the full system development life cycle of the proposed solution, starting with the design and manufacture of the hand using 3D printing PLA technology, the electromechanical development using microservos and a ARM-based solution, and the full ROS integration.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Luca Rossi</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lecturer in Computer Science</div><div dir="ltr">School of Engineering and Applied Science</div><div dir="ltr">Aston University</div><div dir="ltr">Web: <a href="http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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