Experiential Robotics for Health: From Prosthetics to Avatars

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

4:00 PM-5:30 PM

BIOMED Seminar

Title:
Experiential Robotics for Health: From Prosthetics to Avatars

Speaker:
Taskin Padir, PhD
Founding Director, Institute for Experiential Robotics
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
Amazon Scholar

Details:
How can we achieve seamless human-robot teaming? The four elements of experiential robotics will be used as a framework to provide an overview of our research projects on robotics for health. Lessons learned from stakeholder engagements will be summarized.

Biosketch:
Taskin Padir, PhD, holds concurrent positions as an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University, and as an Amazon Scholar. He received his PhD and MS degrees from Purdue University. Dr. Padir is the Founding Director of the Institute for Experiential Robotics at Northeastern University. His research focus has been on shared autonomy, human-in-the-loop robotics, embodied AI, and human-robot teaming at the extremes.

Contact Information

Lisa Williams
ltw22@drexel.edu