Editor’s note: This article appears in the new, all-digital issue of the University of Delaware Research magazine. This issue spotlights UD’s graduate students, an essential group of researchers who come from around the world, bringing fresh energy and new perspectives to their studies. It includes a special section on UD’s growing muscle in robotics and also reports on COVID-19 research with impact in Delaware, the nation and the world.

For Panagiotis “Panos” Artemiadis, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware and director of its graduate program in robotics, the work of robotics has one purpose: Make life and work better for their human creators.

“Everything I do should have that human component,” he said.

And it does. He studies brain activity, electrical activity in muscles and all sorts of biomechanics as part of his research. Decoding that information is an essential component of developing robotic devices that interact with humans. He’s on the front edge of that work as he and his students develop devices that collaborate with humans in physical and cognitive ways.

Learn more: https://research.udel.edu/2020/12/01/ud-robotics-robots-these-days/