People

Principal Investigator

Kaspar

Prof Kaspar Althoefer
Dipl.-lng.Aachen, PhD
Robot autonomy, soft robotics, systems engineering, modelling of tool-environment interaction dynamics, tactile sensing and haptic perception with applications in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, rehabilitation, assistive technologies and human-robot interactions in the manufacturing environment.

Researchers

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dawood

Dr Abu Bakar Dawood
PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate on the EU-funded PALPABLE project. Research interests are sensors, soft robotics,and their applications in surgical settings.

Cem

Dr Cem Süülker
PhD
Postdoctoral research associate employed in EndoTheranostics project. Main research interests are: soft robotics, eversion robots,wearable robots, soft actuators.

PhD Students

Thomas

Mr Thomas Christopher Mack
Skin Based Adherence and Sensing Methods for Eversion Robots.

Mohammed

Mr Mohammed Al-Dubooni
PhD Student with research focus on soft eversion and continuum robots for nuclear pipe decontamination sponsored by the Nuclear Decomissioning Authority.

Danyaal

Mr Danyaal Mohamed Kaleel
Danyaal Kaleel is a PhD student whose research focuses on buoyancy actuation of underwater soft robots. His research is funded by the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). He currently holds a BEng degree in Robotics Engineering (2021) from Queen Mary University of London.

Jue

Mr Jue Chen
Jue Chen is a PhD student, and he is funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).His research project is Pet-bot: Multisensory-integrated robot-animal interactions.

Arnab

Mr Arnab Majumder
Arnab Majumder is a PhD Scholar at ARQ QMUL. He is funded by Ocado Technology. His research is regarding manipulation of fragile objects using soft or compliant robotic gripper using deep learning.