Spotlight
September 2024
- A team of doctors from Marengo CIMS Hospital, Ahmedabad, visited the lab to foster collaborations and discussed the feasibility of employing in-house exoskeletons to benefit medical professionals.
- Prof. Barbara Bruno, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, spent quality time with the lab members and shared valuable insights on the ongoing research work.
August 2024
- Prof. Manish Chauhan, Asst. Professor, Medical Engineering, University of York, delivered a lecture on ‘Robotics Engineering in Associative Medical Applications’ and visited the HCR lab to interact with the students.
- Prof. Vashista delivered a lecture at a national seminar on ‘Standardization of Exoskeleton Robots‘ organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
May 2024
- Mr. Prajapati and Prof. Vashista presented research articles on ‘Aerial Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Payload Transportation’ and ‘External Dynamics Dependent Human Gait Adaptation Using a Cable-Driven‘ at ICRA 2024.
- A technical team from Spark Minda visited the lab to inspect the facilities and initiate collaborative work on the development of prosthetics.
April 2024
- Prof. Vashista visited CMC Vellore to deliver a lecture at the ICORR workshop IFNRCON 2024.
- Prof. Vashista delivered a lecture on ‘Improving Leg Exoskeletons: External Dynamics Dependent Gait Adaptation’ at an international workshop on ‘Emerging Technologies and Challenges for Exoskeleton‘ organized by the DEBEL, DRDO Bengaluru.
March 2024
- The lab’s research work was exhibited at CoLab 2024, an event organized by IIT Gandhinagar to foster academic and industry collaborations.
- The in-house robotic developments were demonstrated to the Zydus and L&T teams for potential collaboration.
February 2024
- During National Science Day, we presented our research work to incite innovative spirits in young minds of school children.
- Prof. Giacinto Barresi, Rehab Technologies Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, conducted a short course on ‘Cognitive Ergonomics and Neuroergonomics in Human-Robot Interaction’ in association with the HCR lab from 6th to 15th of this month. He interacted with the lab members and provided valuable insights on the ongoing projects.
- Prof. Barresi gave a talk on “Rehabilitation technologies for people with multiple sclerosis” as part of the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Seminars on the 13th.
January 2024
- Prof. Vineet Vashista has been selected as a member of the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) for five years, February 2024 – February 2029, in recognition of his work.
December 2023
- Prof. Zlatko Matjačić, University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia, visited the lab from the 4th-15th of this month to interact with the lab members and discuss potential collaborations in future.
- Prof. Matjačić and Prof. Sunil K. Agrawal, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Rehabilitation Medicine, Columbia University, NY, delivered talks in the MEDFUSE workshop on the 14th. Also, this workshop commemorates Prof. Agrawal being awarded the INSA Professor AS Paintal Chair award.
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The research work at the Human-Centered Robotics (HCR) Lab uses the principles of human motor and movement adaptation to develop novel human-centered robotic technologies to improve the quality of human life. The main focus has been on the integration of these understanding within the robot’s design and control to enable a desired physical human-robot interaction. The HCR Lab includes researchers with engineering and cognitive science backgrounds and places a significant emphasis on human studies to evaluate the performance of proposed paradigms.
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