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DESCRIPTION:The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that robot
 s still cannot realize tasks that involve forceful and rich physical conta
 ct that human workers perform daily\, such as when nurses support weakened
  patients to get out of bed. To address this challenge\, my research at th
 e RoboDesign Lab combines the control intelligence of humans with the endu
 rance of machines to realize physically demanding activities. There are th
 ree key ingredients required to create capable human-robot teams: (i) push
  the boundaries of the robot’s hardware via controls-aware design\, (ii)
  create intuitive human-machine interfaces that leverage the complementary
  skills of the operator and the robot\, and (iii) derive shared-control ap
 proaches to maximize team performance via mutual human-robot adaptation. I
 n this talk\, I will cover several ongoing research directions in the lab 
 that address these topics\, such as the development of whole-body Human-Ma
 chine Interface for bilateral teleoperation of mobile robots\, a wheeled h
 umanoid robot for dynamic mobile manipulation\, actuation design for dynam
 ic humanoid robots\, and assistive devices for individuals with mobility i
 mpairment.
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SUMMARY:Human-Robot teams for physically demanding tasks
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/human-robot_teams_for_p
 hysically_demanding_tasks
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