Imperial College London

Professor Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Faculty of EngineeringDyson School of Design Engineering

Professor in Robotics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)7902 396 681t.nanayakkara Website CV

 
 
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Location

 

RCS 1M07Dyson BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Lab members

Guest Lectures

Keynote speech on "A robotics approach to understand how the brain tunes the body to solve dynamic interaction problems", IEEE IAS GlobConET 2023, London, 2023

The brain is lazy, IEEE Robosoft 2023, Singapore, 2023

Keynote on "Soft robotics for creative computing", Creative Computing Institute, London, 2023

Embodiment and likelihood functions of haptic perception, IROS 2022, Kyoto Japan, 2022

Keynote speech titled "Empowered human co-existence with cobots and soft robots", ICITACEE 2022, Semarang, Semarang City, Central Java, Indonesia, 2022

RoboPatient: Robot-assisted learning of real-time multimodal sensor integration during physical examination of a patient, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - Workshop on "Intelligent Control Methods and Machine Learning Algorithms for Human-Robot Interaction and Assistive Robotics", Philadelphia, 2022

A soft robotics approach to understand brain’s approaches for embodied haptic information gain, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 2022

Visuo-haptic sensor integration during medical palpation, IEEE RoboSoft conference - workshop on Soft Robotics and Embodied Intelligence, Edinburgh, 2022

Embodied nature of haptic perception, University of Cambridge, UK, 2022

A soft robotics approach to understand how the brain conditions the body to make realtime computation more efficient, IEEE IAS GUCON 2021, USA, 2021

A Soft Robotics Approach to Understand Embodied intelligence, 2021 International Workshop on Bionic Engineering, Manchester, 2021

A mountain goat inspired robotic leg for outdoor navigation, Technical University of Munich - Imperial College joint workshop, Munich, 2021

A soft robotic patient to learn physical examination with multimodal sensor integration, UK RAS Strategic Task Group for Soft Robotics - Industry collaboration workshop, Bristol, 2021

STIFF-FLOP and beyond - soft robotics for medical training, IEEE RoboSoft 2021, Piscataway, USA, 2021

Shared computation between the brain and the body, Embodied Intelligence workshop, Online, 2021

Embodied Computation for Realtime Interaction with the Natural World, IEEE International Conference on Advancements in Computing 2020, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2020

Mountain goat inspired robots for European Alps monitoring - EU Natural Intelligence Project, IROS 2020 workshop, Las Vegas, 2020

Robot assisted training for primary care - the robo patient project, IROS 2020 workshop, Las Vegas, 2020

Conditioning the body to reduce entropy of perception, Eurohaptics 2020, 2020

Shared computation between the brain and the body, 5th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Finance and Industry, 2020

IEEE Soft Robotics Podcast, IEEE, Piscataway, CA, 2020

First IEEE debate on Soft Robotics and Morphological Computation, IEEE, Pscataway, CA, 2020

Constrained haptic information gain during physical examination in primary care, Workshop: Human-Robot Medical Interaction in the IEEE Human Robot Interaction (HRI) conference,, Held at Cambridge University, 2020

Embodied Intelligence of Robots, IEEE Sri Lanka section, Virtusa Auditorium, 2019

Tech Foresight 2039 Talk on "Invent the future: Learning from robots", Imperial College London, South Kensington, 2019

How robots can learn physical adaptations based on the history of control action, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, 2019, Freiburg, Germany, 2019

Conditioning the body to reduce the entropy of random variables, Robosoft 2019 - Workshop on "Toward the Nature of Information Processing in Soft machines: Bridging Flexible Electronics and Morphological Computation", Seoul, South Korea, 2019

Morphological Computation of Perception and Action, RoboSoft 2019 Workshop on 'Morphological Computation Through Physical Adaptation of Soft Robots', Seoul, South Korea, 2019

Learning physical examination with robotic patients, Royal College of General Practitioners annual conference, Glasgow, 2018

Soft robotic approaches for rehabilitation, Xuzhou Central Hospital and Nanjing Central Hospital, Xuzhou, China and Nanjing, China, 2018

Invited workshop talk at IEEE ICRA2018 on “active search for haptic information in the impedance domain”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2018), Brisbane, Australia, 2018

Plenary workshop talk at IEEE ICRA2018 on “Brain is the last resort”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2018), Brisbane, Australia, 2018

The University of Leeds, keynote on “Surviving in an uncertain world with slow communication pathways”, University of Leeds, Leeds, 2018

Keynote on "Surviving in an uncertain world with slow communication pathways", University of Leeds, Leeds, 2018

Invited public talk on "Trustable Robots" in the Imperial Festival, Imperial College London, South Kensington, 2018

Plenary workshop talk at IEEE RoboSoft 2018 on “Haptic information gain in the impedance domain”, IEEE RoboSoft 2018, Livorno, Italy, 2018

Keynote at Indonesia Institute of Science and technology on “Soft robotics for sustainable rainforest communities”, Indonesia Institute of Science and Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, 2017

Keynote at IMechE Christmas event – “Tinkering” on “If robots were to survive like living beings in uncertain environments”, IMechE, London, 2017

Plenary keynote at IEEE PIMRC on “Survival in uncertain environments with slow communication pathways – evidence from morphological computation”, IEEE PIMRC, Montreal, Canada, 2017

Embodied Computation for Realtime Interactions with the Natural World, RIACT 2022, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India