Prof Kaspar Althoefer
Dipl.-Ing. Aachen, PhD
Current Funding
- Ocado (S&E Flexible Match-funded PhD Studentship)
Kaspar Althoefer
£75,000 Ocado Innovation Ltd
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027 - Multi-sensor Eversion Robot Towards Intelligent Endoscopic Microsurgery - ERC SyG 2023 Althoefer
Kaspar Althoefer, Ketao Zhang and Mohamed Thaha
£1,791,893 EU Commission - Horizon Europe
01-07-2024 - 30-06-2030 - Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)
Yang Hao, Kaspar Althoefer, Arumugam Nallanathan and Anthony Phillips
£2,579,837 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-06-2023 - 31-05-2028 - PALPABLE: Multi-sensing tool for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Kaspar Althoefer
£566,718 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-01-2023 - 31-12-2026 - Eversion and Growing Robots: Pipe Navigation, Inspection and Characterisation
Kaspar Althoefer
£122,759 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026 - iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (NDA) - Eversion robots for radiologically constrained environments characterisation and decommissioning
Kaspar Althoefer
£50,772 Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd
19-09-2022 - 18-09-2026 - Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environment
Kaspar Althoefer
£99,076 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
04-10-2021 - 31-03-2026
Recent Funding
- Reinforcing piping structures using eversion robotics - Mohammed Al-Dubooni
Kaspar Althoefer
£5,000 UKAEA UK Atomic Energy Authority
01-10-2024 - 31-03-2025 - Active locomotion for a capsule endoscope – CE Move
Mohamed Thaha, Hasan Shaheed and Kaspar Althoefer
£13,893 NIHR National Institute for Health Research
01-06-2023 - 31-12-2023 - ATHEMA - Accelerated thermal mapping for on-engine measurements
Kaspar Althoefer
£89,936 Innovate UK
01-06-2023 - 30-11-2024 - 3D Mask Adapter for Successful Mask Fit Testing.
Sarah Waia, Shakeel Shahdad, Ildar Farkhatdinov, Joshua Brown, Bukeikhan Omarali and Kaspar Althoefer
£47,837 Barts and the London Charity
01-11-2022 - 30-04-2024 - Dounreay Site Restoration Limited Consumables /Equipment funding
Kaspar Althoefer
£49,975 Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd
22-03-2022 - 30-06-2024 - STREAM - Snake robotics for on-engine advanced thermal mapping
Kaspar Althoefer
£89,835 Innovate UK
01-05-2021 - 31-10-2022 - GrowBot - Eversion robot for the construction sector
Kaspar Althoefer
£149,549 Innovate UK
01-04-2021 - 31-03-2022 - LianaBot
Kaspar Althoefer
£74,313 Innovate UK
01-04-2021 - 31-03-2022 - RAS Humanitarian Project “Pan-African Competition – in Low cost instruments and entrepreneurship
Kaspar Althoefer and Stoyan Smoukov
£2,671 IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Operations Center
21-02-2021 - 20-02-2022 - Learning collaboration affordances for intuitive human-robot interaction
Kaspar Althoefer, Ildar Farkhatdinov, Lorenzo Jamone, Patrick Healey and Julian Hough
£157,196 Alan Turing Institute, The
01-07-2019 - 30-06-2021 - Collaborative object recognition, shared manipulation and learning
Andrea Cavallaro and Kaspar Althoefer
£302,906 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
11-02-2019 - 31-12-2022 - Assessing and improving mobility of wheelchair users
Ildar Farkhatdinov, Kaspar Althoefer and Dylan Morrissey
£39,925 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-09-2018 - 31-03-2019 - WormBot
Kaspar Althoefer
£149,984 Innovate UK
01-01-2018 - 31-03-2020 - NCNR - National Centre for Nuclear Robotics
Kaspar Althoefer
£1,128,957 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
02-10-2017 - 31-03-2022 - iGrasp
Kaspar Althoefer
£97,279 Innovate UK
01-10-2017 - 31-03-2019
