News/Select Press & Media Coverage
Scientific American Mind Magazine, “Tomorrow’s Prosthetic Hand: Recent Breakthroughs in Technology Could Mean a Fully Functional Artificial hand May be on the Horizon,” August 2016.
BBC Focus Magazine, “Fingertip Control: Researchers Create the Most Advanced Prosthetic Hand Yet,” June 2016.
Unmanned Systems Magazine, “Let the Robot Do It,” June 2016.
Business Insider, “Researchers Want to Grow Human Tendons on an Incredibly Advanced Robotic Hand,” February 2016.
Daily Mail, “Introducing the Biomimetic Anthropomorphic Robotic hand” (video) & “Is This the Most Lifelike Robotic Hand Ever? Engineers Create 3D-Printed Digits Complete with Crocheted Tendons and Rubber Tissue” (article), February 2016.
Medgadget, “New Robotic Hand Made to Replicate the Real Deal,” February 2016.
Gizmodo, “This Insanely Detailed Robotic hand Works Just Like the Real Thing,” February 2016.
IEEE Spectrum website, “This is the Most Amazing Biomimetic Anthropomorphic Robot Hand We’ve Ever Seen,” February 2016.
IEEE Spectrum website, “Simple 3D Printed Grip Makes Household Robots a Little More Realistic,” September 2014.
I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington in June 2015 and finished my postdoctoral training at the GRAB lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University in February 2017. My research interests are in the areas of bio-inspired robotics, biomedical devices, rehabilitation robotics, neurobotics, control systems, and digital fabrication. They date back to my hobby on making gadgets in my father's dental clinic. With no Dremel tools, the dental instruments and materials became my first tools upon which I could exert energy and materialize ideas. I enjoy the process of the innovation, from exploring new ideas to utilizing my knowledge to prototype them. That to me is a kind of joy which is almost unequalled.
Zhe Xu, PhD
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