My work with the continuum robotics laboratory (until September 2024) has had two main parts.

Design of a TDCR research platform: Tendon driven continuum robots (TDCR) is a developing field of robotics concerned with tendon-actuated robots with a slender profile and flexible backbone. There were no available TDCR research platforms for lab researchers around the world, meaning each researcher was building their own system from scratch. To solve this, I developed a modular TDCR system, complete with actuator hubs and a novel tensioning system, to aid in future TDCR research.

Publication: part of this work (the tensioning process) then became a publication (authored by myself, PhD Students Jimmy and Chloe, along with Dr. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs) for ICRA 2025.