Learning-from-demonstration literature study published
A one-year study of the learning-from-demonstration literature was published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.
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Hand and wrist pose-retargeting paper presented at ICRA
Our optimization-based approach for hand-pose retargeting and wrist-pose estimation from a single RGB camera was presented at ICRA 2026.
Editorial on human-centred robotic hand research
An editorial on robotic hand design, analysis, control, and learning from human demonstration was published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
WUN project on bimanual assistive robots
The Worldwide Universities Network supported our international project on bimanual assistive robots for daily care, for which I serve as academic lead.
Crawling robotic hand receives international media coverage
The detachable crawling robotic hand was featured by Euronews, the Financial Times, The New York Times, and Science News.
A detachable crawling robotic hand published
Our work on a robotic hand that can detach, crawl, grasp, and reconnect was published in Nature Communications.
Associate Editor for IROS 2026
Serving as an Associate Editor for the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Associate Fellow of Advance HE
Recognised as an Associate Fellow of Advance HE.
IROS workshop on embodied intelligence and robot manipulation
Co-organized the IROS 2025 workshop “Intelligent Robotics: Harnessing Embodied Intelligence and Learning for Next-Generation Manipulation.”
DexFlow presented at IROS
Our unified framework for dexterous hand-pose retargeting and interaction modelling was presented at IROS 2025.
Robot neural distance function paper presented at ICRA
Our differentiable robot neural distance function for adaptive grasp synthesis on a unified arm-hand system was presented at ICRA 2025.
Robot morphology modelling paper presented at ICRA
Work on configuration-space neural signed distance functions for articulated robot morphology modelling was presented at ICRA 2025.
Joined the University of Leeds
Joined the School of Computer Science at the University of Leeds as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Robotics.
Review of transfer learning in robotics published
A review of the promises and challenges of transfer learning in robotics was published in The International Journal of Robotics Research.
Co-editor of a special issue on dexterous social robots
Serving as co-editor of the International Journal of Social Robotics special issue “Dexterous Social Robots: Bimanual Manipulation in Human-Centric Environment.”
Co-editor of a special issue on robotic hand design
Serving as co-editor of the Frontiers in Robotics and AI special issue “A Human Perspective on Robotic Hand Design, Analysis, Control and Beyond.”
Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Real-time in-hand manipulation planning paper published
Our work on real-time motion planning for multifingered in-hand manipulation was published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.
CoRL workshop on learning fine and dexterous manipulation
Co-organized the CoRL 2024 workshop “Learning Robot Fine and Dexterous Manipulation Skills.”
Action Contextualization published in RA-L
Our work on adaptive task planning and action tuning using large language models was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Crawling robotic hand work presented at IEEE ICRA@40
Our work on designing a multi-fingered robotic hand for grasping and crawling was presented at the IEEE ICRA@40 celebration.
Dimension Insensitive Euclidean Metric preprint released
A preprint introducing DIEM for robust multidimensional comparisons was released on arXiv.
Patent on a cervical-spine exercise device published
The international patent application “Device for Exercising Cervical Spine” was published as WO/2024/120645.
ICRA workshop on multi-object grasping
Co-organized the ICRA 2024 workshop “Multi-Object Grasping: Progress and Prospects.”
ISR-LLM presented at ICRA
Our iterative self-refinement framework for long-horizon sequential task planning was presented at ICRA 2024.
Microsurgical skill assessment framework published
Our framework for objective microsurgical skill assessment was published in Acta Neurochirurgica.
Ville de Lausanne Award nomination
Nominated for the Ville de Lausanne Award.
Joined MIT as a Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship
Began an SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship on task planning and interaction control for robotic sequential multitask manipulation.
IROS workshop on multilimb coordination
Co-organized the IROS 2023 workshop “Multilimb Coordination in Human Neuroscience and Robotics: Classical and Learning Perspectives.”
Robot neural distance function preprint released
A preprint on differentiable robot neural distance functions for adaptive grasp synthesis was released on arXiv.
Active object-shape exploration paper published
Our work on online active and dynamic object-shape exploration with a multi-fingered robotic hand was published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
Multi-object robotic grasping paper published
Our work on exploiting kinematic redundancy for robotic grasping of multiple objects was published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
DAAD AInet Fellow
Selected as a DAAD AInet Fellow by the German Academic Exchange Service.