Neville Hogan
Neville Hogan is the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He directs the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation and is known for his pioneering work on impedance control and physically cooperative robots, including therapeutic robots for neuro-rehabilitation of stroke survivors. His research spans motor neuroscience, rehabilitation engineering, and robotics.
“A robot that was stable during free motion could become unstable when you asked it to push on a surface... if you make the machine look like a collection of springs and masses and viscous elements, that was sufficient to make sure that it was stable in contact with any object.”
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