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Neurotechnology and Robotics

Dr Huai-Ti Lin in his laboratory's Dragonfly Flight Arena, which allows detailed dissection of the aerial prey interception strategies and general visual guidance.

Professor Etienne Burdet, PI of The Human Robotics group. Its researchers use an integrative approach of neuroscience and robotics to investigate human sensorimotor control, and to design efficient assistive devices and training systems for neuro-rehabilitation, which are tested in clinical trials.

Neurotechnology involves the development of techniques to understand, repair, replace, enhance, or otherwise exploit the properties of neural systems and create novel neural interfaces. We apply AI and machine learning along with engineering principles to develop novel methods and technologies for neural interfacing and brain-machine interfaces, brain stimulation and neuromodulation, brain imaging, optical technology for imaging brain circuits, ultrasonic brain imaging and manipulation, neuroelectronics, and neurochemical sensors.

Our expertise in neurotechnology is matched and complemented by our robotics research, which covers basic and applied robotics, including mechatronics systems design and control, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence, microrobotics, medical and rehabilitation robotics, computer vision, human augmentation, and human and social robotics.

Our researchers are uniquely qualified to solve design problems at the interface of living neural tissue and non-living constructs, investigate and develop human and robotic systems, and address brain-related health challenges such as stroke, hearing disorder, traumatic brain injury and dementia.

Anthony Bull
Prosthetics and Orthotics

Etienne Burdet
Human robotics, human augmentation

Hayriye Cagnan
Brain stimulation

James Choi
Blood-brain barrier opening, transcranial ultrasound focusing

Claudia Clopath
Computational neuroscience

Manos Drakakis
Circuits and system for and from biology

Aldo Faisal
Machine and biological learning, human augmentation, human-robot interaction, human-AI interfacing

Dario Farina
Man-machine interfaces, biological signal processing, neural control of movement,neurorehabilitation

Amanda Foust
Development of holographic microscope systems to manipulate and monitor neural activity

Rylie Green
Neural interfaces, BMIs and neuromodulation

Parry Hashemi
Real-time neurotransmitter sensors towards the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses

Amy Howard
Developing neuroimaging methods to characterise tissue microstructure across spatial scales

Kaushik Jayaram
Insect-inspired intelligence enabling next-generation, highly capable insect-scale robots

Angela Kedgley
Robotic simulation of human musculoskeletal control

Andriy Kozlov
Auditory neuroscience and biophysics

Holger Krapp
Systems neuroscience in insects: multisensory integration, sensorimotor transformation

David Labonte
Using robots to study adaptation and trade-offs in biological systems

Huai-Ti Lin
Neuromechanics and Bio-inspired Technologies

Sophie Morse
Modulation of brain cells with therapeutic ultrasound, immune cell delivery to the brain

Aidan Roche
Bionic integration to tackle limb loss and nerve injury

Chris Rowlands
Creating new optical technologies to interface with the brain directly

Simon Schultz
Neural coding; information processing in the mammalian cortical circuit

Majid Taghavi
Wearables and implantable soft robotics

Mengxing Tang
Ultrasound imaging of brain structure and function

Dandan Zhang
Biomedical and bio-inspired micromanipulation, human-robot interaction, multimodality sensing

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