A New Family of Adaptive Hands
Developing a new family of adaptive, intrinsically-compliant, under-actuated robot hands.

Robust Grasping
Proposing methodologies for executing robust grasping in presence of object pose uncertainties or other environmental uncertainties and disturbances (including aerial grasping).

Dexterous, In-Hand Manipulation
Developing hybrid schemes that combine numerical and learning methods for performing dexterous, in-hand manipulation with simple, adaptive robot hands.

Single-Grasp, Model-Free Object Identification
Developing haptic object identification methodologies of minimal complexity (e.g., single-grasp, model-free).

Modelling the Post-Contact Behaviour of Adaptive Hands
Modelling the post-contact behaviour of adaptive robot hands.

Soft, Adaptive Exogloves
Analysis, modelling and development of soft, adaptive exogloves for rehabilitation and human augmentation.

Learning Schemes for EMG Based Interfaces
Formulation of advanced learning schemes for the EMG based control of robotic and prosthetic devices.

Teleoperation and Telemanipulation
Formulation of advanced teleoperation and telemanipulation schemes for robot arm hand systems.

Evaluating the Dexterity of Human and Robot Hands
Evaluating the dexterity of human and robot hands, deriving appropriate metrics for design optimization.

Reconfigurable Drones for Package Delivery
Developing a new class of reconfigurable drones for package delivery.