Scholar
Nathan F. Lepora
Google Scholar ID: fb2WiJgAAAAJ
Professor of Robotics & AI, University of Bristol
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,502
H-index
34
i10-index
87
Publications
20
Co-authors
23
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Featured in The Robot Report for advances in tactile gripping; shortlisted and won an Elektra Award; invited to write a blog for The Royal Society on human-like robot dexterity; children's book 'Robots (DKfindout!)' has 130 ratings with an average of 4.7 stars on Amazon; academic book 'Living Machines' won 1st Prize at British Medical Assoc. awards; published papers on pose and shear-based tactile servoing, grasp control for underactuated tactile robotic hands, AnyRotate: Gravity-Invariant In-Hand Object Rotation with Sim2Real Touch, soft biomimetic optical tactile sensing with the TacTip, and co-authored an editorial and 4 papers in the IEEE T-Ro Special Issue on Tactile Robotics.
Research Experience
- Announcement of the Bristol-Imperial ARIA project; public talks at Pint-of-Science, Standon Calling, and Agile Rabbit; involvement in multiple research projects on tactile gripping.
Background
- Professor of Robotics & AI at the University of Bristol. Research interests include robotics and neuroscience.
Miscellany
- Personal interests include writing, having published both children’s and academic books.
