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New Scientist Live 2025
Saturday 18 - Sunday 19 Oct 2025New Scientist Live 2025
Visit our booth at this year's New Scientist Live event. As in previous years, it will be held at the ExCeL center. You will get a chance to try out robotic devices and chat with us about current research.
Recent Events
Recent Events
JMRR Paper with Presentation at ISMR2025
14th - 16th May 2025JMRR Paper with Presentation at ISMR2025
Joseph presented his JMRR paper titled “A Small-Scale Soft Linear Actuator for Tool Feeding with Intrinsic Force Sensing” at the 2025 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) in Atlanta, Georgia. In the paper, we proposed a completely soft linear actuator that can feed rigid tools and estimate forces exerted on their tip. This approach offers a first step towards miniaturised soft hydraulic actuators used to estimate contact and insertion forces in endoluminal applications.
IMR at ISIET 2025
24th - 27th April 2025IMR at ISIET 2025
Jeref Merlin attended ISIET 2025: 4th International Symposium on Inner Ear Therapeutics in Marrakech, where he presented his research poster titled "A Sensorized Ear Phantom for Standardized Training and Validation of Intratympanic Procedures." At the symposium, he showcased a functional, portable version of the phantom, allowing attendees to interact with the system firsthand. The demonstration highlighted the phantom’s integrated force sensing and real-time needle tracking capabilities, emphasizing its potential as a tool for both clinical training and device validation in otologic procedures.
RoboSoft 2025 Presentation on Hyperelastic Ballooning Membrane Modelling
23rd - 26th April 2025RoboSoft 2025 Presentation on Hyperelastic Ballooning Membrane Modelling
Mirroyal attended IEEE RoboSoft 2025 in Lausanne, where he had the opportunity to present our research paper: "A Generalized Modeling Approach to Liquid-driven Ballooning Membranes." In this paper we demonstrated a novel modeling approach for liquid-driven ballooning membranes, employing an ellipsoid approximation to model shape and stretch under planar deformation. Relying solely on intrinsic feedback from pressure data and controlled liquid volume, this approach enables membrane state estimation.
IMR at the Hamlyn Symposium 2024
Wednesday 26 - Thursday 27 June 2024IMR at the Hamlyn Symposium 2024
We attended the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2024 at the Royal Geographical Society in London, where Basma presented her latest works on reconfigurable soft robotics for interventional radiology applications and Joseph showed his previous research at the RViM lab on the design of a suction cup for optical nerve sheath fenestration.
Visit to the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Hong Kong
Saturday 12 - Sunday 13 Oct 2024Visit to the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) hosted the Hong Kong AI & Robotics Forum for Healthcare, where we presented a summary of our research works Parallel soft robots for more efficient human-robot-interaction in medical interventions.
New Scientist Live Event 2023
Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 Oct 2023New Scientist Live Event 2023
We exhibited some of our work at the 2023 New Scientist Live Event at the London ExCeL Center. Exhibits included our soft robot for ear interventions, a soft robotic ball maze and the ultrasound robotic end-effector. Visitors learned more about fabrication of our devices, the materials used, as well as received first hand overviews of the envisioned medical applications.
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