William Harwin is the professor of interactive and human robotics at the University of Reading. His research interest are in robot, haptics and the human system. Research includes medical and rehabilitation robots, and neuro-muscular modelling, robots for stroke rehabilitation, haptic interfaces with multi touch and with large range of movements at high speeds, Robot dynamics, control and cognition.

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Research opportunities in

• Sensing and predicting movement: Using redundant sensor networks to follow and predict the behaviours of people in familiar environments. (see SPHERE).
• Cognitive robotics and touch: Understanding hand-eye coordination tasks in robotics by considering how animals and humans manage fluid and purposeful movements.
• Haptic interfaces: Actuators, linkages, contact stability, multi-point contacts and real-time rendering. (e.g. http://www.haptel.kcl.ac.uk/Haptel)
• Assistive robotics and stroke: Predicting the consequences of machine mediated therapy in post stroke rehabilitation.

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