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BBC news picked up on our robot hand mentioned in Science Robotics, and work from MIT (main focus of Sci Rob article), Columbia NY and Berkeley bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Available from today in all good book shops :-) routledge.com/The-Psychology….

Really nice article giving some realism in dexterous robot hands and humanoids. Great to see all the UK-based people interviewed too!👍 theguardian.com/science/2024/s…

Excited to share that @efi_psomopoulou and Nathan Lepora at University of Bristol, and I have been awarded the ISPF International Collaboration Awards 2024! Huge thanks to 한국연구재단 and The Royal Society for supporting our work on advancing tactile sensors for dexterous manipulation.

Insightful report led by Tony Blair and William Hague on the urgency for the UK of investing in robotics. Past politics notwithstanding, it is important that two senior politicians are seeking to raise political awareness of a key issue of our times. institute.global/insights/tech-…

Fantastic #CoRL2024 demo sessions. Here’s Max showing his AnyRotate in-hand object rotation is robust to waving the hand around because of tactile sensing. thanks Conference on Robot Learning Rika Antonova

Our paper "Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it" on 3d object reconstruction has been accepted! It has some fantastic visuals using vision and touch to reconstruct objects. Well done Mauro Comi!🎉

And double congratulations to Mauro Comi on his internship Google DeepMind! Fantastic opportunity for the final year of your PhD👏

We’re holding the next UK Robot Manipulation Workshop at KCL, on 7th & 8th January 2025 🤖🦾 The workshop has really taken off since we started in 2016. This year we had ~300 people! My little montage below is a peak across the UK's robot manipulation community. See you there!

Needs tactile sensing! (and a better hand)

“The hand is where the mind meets the world.” — Carl Zimmer Humanoid hands closely replicating human degrees of freedom enable robots to seamlessly integrate into our world and learn more efficiently from human demonstrations. A look at some of the impressive hands from 2024🧵

Bob McGrew, Former Research Chief at OpenAI: "Manipulation is the hard problem we need to solve to make humanoid robots useful, not locomotion. One video of a humanoid slowly performing tasks with its hands is worth a dozen clips of choreographed routines."

Found out recently that we were covered by 'The Robot Report'... University of Bristol researchers advance tactile gripping therobotreport.com/university-of-…

New video shows the dexterity of tactile robot hands. From 'Shear-based Grasp Control for Multi-fingered Underactuated Tactile Robotic Hands' (accepted in IEEE Trans. Rob.). arxiv.org/abs/2503.17501

1996: While we played Nintendo 64, NASA engineers controlled robots with VR helmets and motion-tracking gloves. The original metaverse was built for space exploration! Published at IEEE ICRA 1996!

🤖 AI + Cobots = Smarter Assembly Lines! AI-powered #cobots work with humans—boosting precision, safety & productivity across industries like auto, electronics & healthcare. Smarter, safer, more adaptable. 🔗 electronics360.globalspec.com/article/21835/…

A UK team led by Nathan Lepora (Bristol Uni) & Imperial College just secured a £5M grant from ARIA to tackle robot dexterity—a key bottleneck for practical #HumanoidRobots. Their innovative approach: using AI to co-design both highly dexterous hands and their control

Looking forward to the next 4+ years as part of this fantastic ARIA program on Robot Dexterity. I have a joint project with Edward Johns on 'Democratising Co-Design of Hardware and Control for Robot Dexterity'

Fully-funded UK PhD studentships still available to research human-like robot dexterity on the £60M ARIA Robot Dexterity program. Details here: lepora.com/studentships-A…