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              Leading Soft Robotic Transducers (SoRT) Lab at Imperial College London - Department of Bioengineering
              
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              Joined September 2021
            
            
           I have an open PhD position. Please see the link below for further information and scholarship details:  https://t.co/b5xeT7Vyt8 
          
          
            
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              Queen Mary University of London's School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) provides outstanding degree programmes coupled with internationally leading research. We offer degrees in:...
            
                
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             Call for Poster Presentations - ๐๐บ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด 2025 ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ & ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ meeting, June 9 2025, The Royal Society London Poster session 17:00 scientific.meetings@royalsociety.org 
          
                
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             Back in December we held the 5th edition of the Robotics Forum - Amazon PhD Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Robotics๐ท! โจCongratulations again to the winners & finalists๐! @IvanKapelyukh
            @xinzhou1996 @vitalisvos19 @thrishlab @AdSpiers @Ed__Johns @SoRoTransducers @akedgley
          
          
                
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             Check out our recent article in @NatureComms: #ElectroRibbon artificial muscle with a high contraction that can independently tune its stiffness and damping. Great work from @Yuejun_Xu
             https://t.co/YIKaAOWGK3 
          
          
            
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              Nature Communications - Soft actuators mimic the adaptability of biological muscles but lack multifunctionality. This work introduces electric actuation with rapid stiffness and damping modulation,...
            
                
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             We're offering two funded #PhD positions at #Imperial, co-supervised by Prof. Dario Farina. It's about developing future upper-limb #soft_robots with physical & artificial intelligence. @ImperialRobots
            @ImperialBioeng
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            @NeuroCon_ICL
             https://t.co/mJFbSJXK1U 
          
          
            
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              We have two new PhD positions available:Title: Physical and Artificial Intelligence: Soft Adaptable Actuators for Upper Limb RoboticsLocation: White...
            
                
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             Exciting wrap-up of "SoRo for Healthcare", our inaugural 2-day conference! ๐ Insightful keynotes from @ellentroche, @danadam13271, @maisifacility, Prof. Yves Perriard, and Prof. Shervanthi Homer, Looking forward to continuing this conference series next year! 
          
                
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             Just wrapped up a fantastic workshop at @ICLHamlynRobots with a brilliant diverse speakers from engineering and clinical backgrounds! Together, we explored potential pathways for future impactful technologies that can restore physiological functions #HSMR23
          
          
                
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             Join our workshop at the Hamlyn Symposium where we'll explore soft robotics, advanced biomaterials, and clinical translational science and their potential synergies in addressing unmet challenges associated with mobility and motility disorders. #HSMR23
             https://t.co/um7ooXnyvB 
          
          
                
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             Fabulous evening dining in style on the SSGB, following day two's exciting talks at #EuroEAP2023 @BristolUniEng @BristolUniMaths @BristolRobotLab
          
          
                
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             Thank you Andrew Conn for organizing the @euroeap conference in Bristol. Many high quality talks, great discussions, and a wonderful social program. 
          
                
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             Soft Robotic Transducers lab members sharing their work with the Electroactive Polymer community at the 11th @euroeap conference in Bristol. Well done visva, @xyj022, @AzaisCaterina. 
          
                
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             Our demo table in the @imperialcollege's Center for Neuro Rehabilitaion, eagerly awaiting for the #ICRA2023 visitors. Will have an action-packed day with over 130 registered individuals. @ImperialBioeng
          
          
                
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             Visva Moorthy and Lawrence Hou have presented their late breaking results in #ICRA2023 today. Heads up for their publications if you are interested in #haptic feedback, #tremor suppression #orthotics and origami-inspired robotic wrist. 
          
                
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             Back in the lab with @AliSade83700364 after 7 years! Excited to prepare materials for our workshop tomorrow on "Untethered Soft Robotics", hosted by Unevrsity of Twente. 
          
                
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             Congrats to Lawrence Hou, who ranked 1st in his MSc cohort and received the best academic performance award! Proud to have you on my team. If attending #ICRA2023, check out his impressive late results poster on origami-inspired wrist actuator before we publish the full paper. 
          
                
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             Cate and Visva from @SoRoTransducer spent a week at #CIMAINA and conducted fascinating experiments! Thanks P. Milani for hosting. So proud of their hard work and excited to see where their research takes them next. 
          
                
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             Our latest Advanced Functional Materials paper on new electric field-driven soft gel actuators is online here:  https://t.co/P4cmIMhZby.  Video here:  https://t.co/xRfG4is0iV  well done @CiqunXu! @FaulResearch @SoRoTransducers @BristolRobotLab
          
          
                
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             Just a few more days left to apply for the PhD scholarships in Biomedical Engineering and Robotics in our group:  https://t.co/5JwAHryTew 
            @BioengShef @ShefACSE @insigneo @SheffUniEng
          
          
            
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             When triggered by 800V, this artificial muscle made from a stiffness-graded electroactive material dilates by 50% mimicking the behavior of an iris. @SoRoTransducers @ImpMaterials Read the article:  https://t.co/xlA9UDsVTx 
          
          
                
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             We introduced smart #artificial_muscle material with smooth #graded_stiffness: make a durable connection on the stiffer side - you may even drill it! actuate the softer side electrically.  https://t.co/H3J4TnK4rE 
          
          
            
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              An electroactive artificial muscle material with smooth graded stiffness enables programmable stiffness variation from hard material for loading and anchoring to soft material for actuation. This...
            
                
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