Congratulations to Abby, Jared and Rebecca for being awarded undergraduate research fellowships for Spring 2022! Their award-winning research projects are listed below: Abby Harrison: Discriminability of Transcutaneous Sensory Feedback Jared Zollinger: Surface-Electromyography Integrated Low-Cost Control System for Dexterous Bionic Arms Rebecca Urban: Discriminability of Electrocutaneous Sensory Feedback These prestigious research fellowships are awarded through the University…
Great showing at our lab holiday party! Thankful to have such a fun lab environment.
Dr. Jacob A. George, director of the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab, was named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in the Science category for 2022. For 10 years, the finance magazine has named 30 young innovators, entertainers and others each in a variety of categories from art and design to games, media and sports. These are…
Postdoctoral fellows in the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab work to establish new lines of research in the field of assistive and rehabilitative brain-computer interface technology for stroke and spinal-cord-injury patients. Postdoctoral fellows work closely with an interdisciplinary team of engineers, computer scientists, clinicians, and occupational therapists. They are expected to take a leadership role and work…
Hundreds of high school students from Utah and around the country got a taste of how exciting engineering can be during the annual “Engineering Day” event, the first time it was held in person in two years. The one-day activity held Saturday, Nov. 13, in the Warnock Engineering Building is the largest outreach event put…
Our work on robust thought-controlled exoskeletons in collaboration with the Utah Bionic Engineering Lab is now published online in Frontiers in NeuroRobotics. We explored how a powered hip exoskeleton impacts muscle activity, and the implications of that on real-time EMG control. We showed that lower-limb and lower-back muscle activity change non-linearly as a result of increasing exoskeleton assistance -…
Congratulations to Michael Paskett for transitioning to an exciting new job at Facebook Reality Labs! He will be working on the development of a wrist-based neural interface to intuitively control augmented and virtual realities. Michael will be defending his dissertation in PhD student in Biomedical Engineering this semester. As a member of Center for Neural…
If you’re at BMES this year in Orlando Florida, make sure to stop by and check out our lab presentations from Abby Citterman and Caleb Thomson!
The Utah NeuroRobotics Lab was recently awarded a $96,500 grant from the University of Utah’s Partners for Innovation, Ventures, Outreach and Technology (PIVOT) Center. This grant will help out lab bridge the funding gap between research and commercialization by providing support for technology development, proof of concept, and to prepare the innovation for additional investment…
The Utah NeuroRobotics Lab was recently awarded a $150,000 grant from Facebook Reality Labs to develop new inclusive neural interfaces for controlling virtual and augmented reality. We were one of six selected for funding out of 50 applications! The objective of our proposal is to develop a privacy-by-design EMG data-collection process that provides unbiased and…
