Professor Darwin Caldwell (born

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) is a researcher and academic in

robotics Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

who is currently Research Director at the Italian Institute of Technology in

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. Besides other robots, he was involved in the development of the

iCub iCub is a 1 metre tall open source robotics humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence. It was designed by the RobotCub Consortium of several European universities and built by Italian Institute of ...

, a small-size humanoid robot being designed by the

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. Caldwell has published over 600 papers and has received awards at several international conference and events. He is visiting professor at the

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, University of Wales Bangor and

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. Caldwell studied at

Ballymena Academy Ballymena Academy is a mixed gender grammar school in the market town of Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1828 as a small provincial school for children in the town and surrounding agricultural hinterland. Admissi ...

and then completed his B.Sc and Ph.D in Robotics from the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

in 1986 and 1990 respectively, and completed an MSc in Management at the University of Salford in 1994 His research interests include innovative actuators and sensors, haptic feedback, force augmentation exoskeletons, dexterous manipulators, humanoid robotics (iCub), bipedal and quadrupedal robots, biomimetic systems, rehabilitation robotics, telepresence and teleoperation procedures, and robotics and automation systems for the food industry. He was previously at the University of Salford between 1989 and 2007 as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and finally Professor of Advanced Robotics in the Centre for Robotics and Automation between 1999 and 2007 He is currently Chair of the

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Robotics and Automation Chapter (UKRI) and a past co-chair of the IEE (IET) Robotics and Mechatronics. He is on the editorial board of ''Industrial Robot'' as well as being guest editor of several journals. In association with Professor John Gray of the University of Salford, he was responsible for the establishment of the Yorkshire Forward funded ''Centre for Food Robotics and Automation'' (CenFRA).

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External links

Profile on Italian Institute of Technology website

Profile on University of Sheffield website

Profile on University of Wales Bangor website
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