Speaker Series - Heba Khamis, Founder & CEO of Contactile / The rise of robots: Adding the human sense of touch
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The rise of robots: Adding the human sense of touch
Contactile is a Sydney-based start-up established in early 2019. An innovator in tactile sensors for robots and enabling intelligent dextrous robotic gripping, their tactile sensor provides gripping systems with the sensory advantages of the human hand without the physical limitations related to size, strength, environment and fatigue.
We talk to founder and CEO, Heba Khamis about the ‘rise of robots’ and their move into unstructured environments where they will need to handle objects that they have never encountered before. While robotic gripping technologies have come a long way, they are still not able to grip things with just the right amount of force and react to changes in the grip conditions. Robots need tactile feedback to improve their gripping capabilities.
Heba Khamis holds a PhD in Engineering, B (Software) Engineering and a B Medical Science from the University of Sydney. She has applied her expertise in biosignal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning in complex biomedical problems including epilepsy, cardiac and autonomic diseases, malnutrition and human tactile physiology. Since 2014, she has been developing tactile sensors for robotic gripping that are inspired by the human sense of touch.