Public Summary Month 7/2012

In the past two months, i.e. June and July of 2012, based on the test rig set up at KCL, the further tests and experiments of using the left-hand Shadow hand have been carrying out and a new version of left-hand metamorphic hand has been designed and is in manufacturing in Tianjin China. An international conference, i.e. the Second ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR 2012) has been successfully held on 9-12th July in Tianjin China which was organized and chaired by Professor Jian S. Dai from King’s College London, Rich Walker has given a plenary presentation of the DEXDEB research at the conference. Researchers from KCL including Dr. Guowu Wei, Dr. Ketao Zhang, Dr. Helge Wurdemann and Dr. Vahid Aminzadeh joined the organization of this conference in China. Further, investigations and experiments on identification of butcher hand movements were carried out at IFMA.

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