Advanced Robotics

Research within the Department of Advanced Robotics concentrates on an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to humanoid design and control, and the development of novel robotic components and technologies. This encompasses activities from both the hard (mechanical/ electrical design and fabrication, sensor systems, actuation development etc.) and soft (control, computer software, human factors etc) systems areas of robotics.

While mimicking biological principles does not necessarily lead to the development of optimal systems it is believed that the merging of multiple, diverse technologies will facilitate a transition from traditional (hard-bodied) robots towards a new generation of hybrid systems combining engineering principles such as speed, robustness, accuracy, and endurance with biologically inspired concepts that aim to emulate the 'softer' compliant structure of muscle, bone, tendons and skin to provide robots with the capacity for self-repair, regeneration, redundancy etc..

Within the department the research activities are arranged in terms of;

core scientific/technological research aimed at providing fundamental competences needed to develop robotic and humanoid technology.
advanced research demonstrators that provided large focused research projects that integrate the core sciences.

Within the scientific research there are activities based on:

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