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SUMMARY:Perceiving Through Contact: Designing Dexterous Robots with Touch 
 and Vision - Dr. Shan Luo\, King's College London 
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Dexterous manipulation remains one of the grand chal
 lenges in robotics\, requiring the seamless integration of sensing\, mecha
 nics\, and control. Recent advances in optical tactile sensing have opened
  new possibilities by allowing robots to see through touch—using embedde
 d cameras to capture detailed contact geometry\, deformation\, and force d
 istribution as tactile images. This talk presents our progress in optical 
 tactile sensing and its role in transforming the way robots perceive and i
 nteract with the physical world. I will begin by introducing our developme
 nts in optical tactile sensors\, from GelTip and TouchRoller to ViTacTip a
 nd RoTipBot\, which innovate omnidirectional touch sensing to achieve high
  dexterity. Beyond sensing\, I will highlight our work on tactile simulati
 on and modelling that supports high-speed and physically grounded tactile 
 perception. Finally\, I will demonstrate how integrating vision and touch 
 to enhance perception for dexterous manipulation. Together\, these advance
 s point toward a new generation of robots capable of perceiving\, reasonin
 g\, and acting through both touch and vision.\nBio: Dr Shan Luo is a Reade
 r in Robotics and AI at King’s College London\, where he leads the Robot
  Perception Lab and the Centre for Robotics Research at the Department of 
 Engineering. He is an EPSRC Open Fellow and a Turing Open Source AI Fellow
 . Shan received his PhD in Robotics from King’s College London in 2016 a
 nd has held research positions at MIT CSAIL\, Harvard University\, and the
  University of Leeds. From 2018 to 2021\, he was Lecturer and Director of 
 the smARTLab at the University of Liverpool before returning to King’s. 
 His research aims to endow robots with human-like perception and dexterity
 \, focusing on tactile sensing\, multimodal perception\, and robot manipul
 ation. His work has appeared in leading robotics journals and conferences 
 including IEEE Transactions on Robotics\, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronic
 s\, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence\, ICRA\
 , IROS\, RSS\, and NeurIPS. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Tran
 sactions on Robotics\, and ICRA/IROS\, and recently led a Special Issue on
  Tactile Robotics that received record-breaking submissions. His research 
 has been funded by EPSRC\, Innovate UK\, AHRC\, the Royal Society\, and in
 dustrial partners including Unilever\, with Shan serving as PI on projects
  exceeding £4M.\n
LOCATION:Department of Engineering - LR5
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