Chris Ford

Email: nb19364@bristol.ac.uk

Supervisors: Nathan Lepora & Ben Ward-Cherrier

PhD Project Title: The Tactile SoftHand: An Anthropomorphic Robot Hand with a Biomimetic Sense of Touch

Research Group: Tactile Robotics

Biography

My background is in Mechanical Engineering with a particular focus on electromechanical systems and mechatronics. I graduated from the University of the West of England in 2019 with an MEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering. During my degree I undertook a sandwich year at Renishaw PLC as a design and development engineer in their CMM probes department.

I am part of the tactile robotics group in the BRL with a particular interest in biomimetics and anthropomorphic design. My current research project looks at the design and application of anthropomorphic robot hands with integrated tactile sensing and control.