Presenter: Dr. Kevin Lynch
“Autonomous and human-collaborative robotic manipulation”
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Hudson 216 | 100 Science Drive, Durham 27705
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
ABSTRACT: In this talk I will describe our work on robotic manipulation, including autonomous in-hand robotic manipulation (particularly through the US NSF HAND Engineering Research Center) and safe human-collaborative manipulation among one or more humans and a team of mobile manipulators.
DR. KEVIN LYNCH is a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Robotics and Biosystems at Northwestern University. His research is on robotic manipulation, locomotion, human-robot systems, and robot swarms. He is research director of the NSF Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity (HAND) Engineering Research Center, former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference Editorial Board, a coauthor of three textbooks on robotics and mechatronics, and the instructor of six Coursera online courses and the associated YouTube videos forming the Modern Robotics specialization. He received the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and the Ph.D. degree in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
HOSTS: Boyuan Chen, Xianyi Cheng, Joanna D. Bertram
Contact
Xianyi Cheng
xianyi.cheng@duke.edu