Luis Figueredo
Assistant Professor
Welcome to my website!
Here, you will find a little about me, my research, publications, cool (and hopefully educative) robotic videos, some interesting resources, and the latest news about my lab and my research group. Feel free to explore the website and contact me.
Well, let me start with a short bio about myself.
My work is currently focused on the many challenges involving human-centric robotics. Particularly, my goal is to build intelligent robots that help and assist humans in performing different tasks in a safe, efficient, natural, and comfortable manner. These constraints are recurrent in my research, which spams through multiple areas of knowledge, e.g., geometric methods for manipulation and control, manipulation of complex real-world objects, cooperative manipulation, safe physical human-robot interaction, implicit and explicit human-robot communication, biomechanics-aware assistive robotics, and core concepts of control theory and geometry algebra.
Finally, I am a strong believer that real-world robotics challenges can only be addressed through interdisciplinarity, collaborations, and lots of coffee.
Get the ball rolling:
Latest News and Updates
Great time at IROS-24 in Detroit. Some fun with Rafael and our paper on Shared Autonomy Control for Slosh-Free Teleoperation. Also, many thanks to Luka, Wansoo, Heni, Arash and Eiichi for inviting me to a talk at the 6th Ergonomic Physical Human-Robot Collaboration:Harnessing Advancements in Robot Learning.
Great experience hosting and organizing the 16th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics at Munich, Germany with great people and friends, Cristina, Patricia, Manuel and Hinrich. Great papers and talks, including from my students and collaborators, Ainoor, Junnan, Amartya and Mazin.
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Lecturer Position at Nottingham
Started a lecturership position at the University of Nottingham, UK. Looking forward to new challenges and building a great lab.
Exciting times at the Automatica Munich_i 2023. In addition to supporting several demos of the Geriatronics team, my research group w/ Rafael I. Cabral Muchacho and Riddhiman Laha had a super fun demo: Interacting with Spill-Free Robots, where we challenged people to break our demo (Result: 8-hours of continuous run per 4 days, hundred to thousand users from kids to roboticists and no break! Check it out (LINK)
Excited about output of our workshop on Geometric Representations: The Roles of Screw Theory, Lie Algebra & Geometric Algebra. At the peak, we had more than 110 people attending! Congrats to Julen U., Niklas Wilhelm Funk ,Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki for the best paper! Check it out (link).
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2023
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ICRA-23 London Time!
Excited to present two papers with our team! Congrats to Arthur Bucker, Wenxi Wu and Riddhiman Laha! Talk to us at the poster session! Also, excited to have once again a demo running in the Exhibition center. Check out the Franka/Clearpath booth!
Keep in touch!
MSc Projects and UG Projects @ Nottingham!
If you are an undergrad or MSc student at Nottingham, and you are hard-working and interested in robotics, please reach out.
We have a lovely and friend team who always welcome new members.