Goal-Directed Learning in Cortical Organoids
Teaching lab-grown brain tissue to balance a pole, with the Braingeneers lab at UC Santa Cruz.
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Projects
About ten years of work, mostly on how bodies move and how brains learn. These days that means VR physical therapy at Immergo Labs. Before that it was organoids, soft exosuits, tensegrity shoulders, 3D-printed fingers, and robot joints with ligaments.
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Model-Free Dynamic Control of Robotic Joints with Integrated Elastic Ligaments
Robot joints with elastic ligaments, controlled by reinforcement learning instead of hand-tuned PID.
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3D Printing an Assembled Biomimetic Robotic Finger
A robot finger with bones, ligaments, and tendons, all 3D printed together as one part.
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A Soft Exosuit for Flexible Upper-Extremity Rehabilitation
CRUX, a 1.3 kg soft suit that helps move your arm during rehab without strapping it into a rigid robot.
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Simulating the Human Shoulder Through Active Tensegrity Structures
My first paper. Robot shoulders made of struts and cables, to see if a joint could move like a real one without a fixed axle.
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