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Helmut Hauser

Helmut Hauser is an Associate Professor in Robotics at the University of Bristol and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. Helmut is the Director of the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training for Robotics and Autonomous Systems (FARSCOPE TU) with over 50 PhD students. He also leads the UK-RAS Strategic Task Group for Soft Robotics, which promotes Soft Robotics in the UK. Helmut’s research is focused on morphological computation and embodiment, especially in the context of soft robotics. He is interested in understanding the underlaying principles of how complex physical properties of biological systems are exploited to facilitate learning and controlling tasks, and how these principles can be employed to design better robots.  He has published over 85 publications in international conferences as well in high-impact journals including Science Robotics, Nature Machine Intelligence, and Scientific Reports. Helmut has won various publications awards at international conferences including 3 best paper awards and the “Highly Commended - Industrial Robot Journal award for practical innovation in the field of robotic.” Helmut was the project manager of the EU project LOCOMORPH and he lead the Leverhulme Trust Project “Computing with Spiders’ Webs.” He was co-organizer of the 2nd and 3rd international conference on morphological computation, the Monte Verità workshop on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation. He also led 4 special issues on morphological computation. He is the editor of the e-book "Opinions and Outlooks on Morphological Computation”. Helmut is also the author of the popular RoboHub article on morphological computation

Current Members

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Alumni

 

Martin Garrad is a PhD candidate with the FARSCOPE centre for doctoral training, hosted jointly by the University of Bristol, the University of the West of England and Bristol Robotics Laboratory. He is also a part of the soft robotics group at the University of Bristol. For his PhD research he is investigating robots that can adapt their morphology in response to a change in task or environment and algorithms which can learn to make these changes autonomously. 

 

Yiheng Zhu

Yiheng Zhu is a PhD candidate of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous and Robotic Systems (FARSCOPE CDT), hosted jointly by the University of Bristol, the University of the West of England and Bristol Robotics Laboratory. He is also a part of the Soft Robotics Group at the University of Bristol. Inspired by the metamorphosis of amphibians, his PhD research focuses on robotic morphosis and embodied intelligence.

 

 

Seyedmohammadhadi Hadi Sadati

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S.M.Hadi Sadati received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran, and his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 2012 from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. In 2017, he received his Ph.D. in Robotics at King’s College London, University of London, London, UK. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Morphological Computation at the University of Bristol, working within the Leverhulme Trust Research Project “Computing with spiders’ webs – An inspiration for new sensors and robots”. He also was a visiting researcher at Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London during 2017 and has been a member of IEEE Soft Robotics newsletter team since 2015. His research experience is in the fields of rescue robots, nonholonomic system path planning, dynamic system modeling, stiffness controllable continuum manipulators, and morphological computation and control. His research interests include bio-inspired robotics, morphological computation, continuum robotics, robot dynamics, control and design.