Welcome to the Harvard BioRobotics Laboratory under the direction of Professor Robert Howe.

Our research focuses on the role of sensing and mechanical design in motor control, in both robots and humans. This work draws upon diverse disciplines, including biomechanics, systems analysis, and neurophysiology. The main approach is experimental, although analysis and simulation play important parts. In conjunction with industrial partners, we are developing applications of this research in biomedical instrumentation, teleoperated robots, and intelligent sensors.


Lab News:
  • BioRobotics Lab Members were recognized for outstanding work at the IROS 2007 Conference in October in San Diego. Post Docs Riichiro Tadakuma and Mahdi Tavakoli were both finalists for the Conference Best Paper Award, and undergraduate Dan Kettler (now a Ph.D. student at MIT) was a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award. Congratulations to these BioRobotics Lab members, and to Prof. Rob Wood of the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, who won both the Conference Best Paper Award and the Best Video Award!
  • BioRobotics Lab alumnus Aaron Dollar won the Best Student Paper Award from the 10th IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. His paper, which is based on his Ph.D. research, was titled "The SDM Hand as a Prosthetic Terminal Device: A Feasibility Study." Aaron is now a post doctoral associate at MIT.
  • BioRobotics Lab member Aaron Dollar won 1st place at the 2006 ASME Student Mechanism Design Competition in Philadelphia for "A Robust Robotic Hand".
  • BioRobotics Lab member Paul Novotny took home the 2006 MICCAI Student Award in Computer-Assisted Interventions and Robotics at the MICCAI conference in Copenhagen, Denmark for GPU Based Real-time Instrument Tracking with Three-Dimensional Ultrasound.
    Congratulations Paul and Aaron!

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