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Episode Seventy-One: Virginia Ruiz Garate
Robot Talk
English - February 02, 2024 12:00 - 27 minutes - 38.3 MBScience Technology robots Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Claire chatted to Virginia Ruiz Garate from Mondragon University all about assistive robotics, mobility, and bio-inspired control.
Virginia Ruiz Garate obtained her PhD in 2016 in bio-inspired control for leg exoskeletons at the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. Later, she worked on new bio-inspired grasping methods for robotic hands at the Italian Institute of Technology. She then became Associate Professor in assistive robots at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. Currently, she is a Lecturer and Researcher in Robotics at Mondragon University. Her research interests include robotic grasping and manipulation, bio-inspired control, assistive robotics and human-robot interfaces.
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