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)
• Reinforcing piping structures using eversion robotics - Mohammed Al-Dubooni
  Kaspar Althoefer
  £5,000 UKAEA UK Atomic Energy Authority (01-10-2024 - 31-03-2025)
• Multi-sensor Eversion Robot Towards Intelligent Endoscopic Microsurgery - ERC SyG 2023 Althoefer
  Kaspar Althoefer 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

• 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)