Tissue-Responsive Robotic Implants for In Vivo Mechanostimulation-Based Tissue Regeneration (Tissue-RIMOTE)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Automatic Control and Systems Eng
Abstract
Conditions such as long-gap oesophageal atresia (LGOA) and short bowel syndrome (SBS) are two examples of chronic paediatric cases of gastrointestinal tissue reconstruction where up to two thirds of the oesophagus and bowel, respectively, may be missing. These are among the most complex and devastating paediatric anomalies that have a life-long debilitating effect on patients. Their current treatments are not widely available, are complex, primitive, long-term, and have disputed outcome quality. Families and surgeons have long sought an effective treatment to improve these patients' quality of life.
The proposed project aims to initiate an ambitious research agenda for a novel technology for the repair and reconstruction of soft tubular tissues inside the body using robotic and tissue regeneration principles. The underlying technology unifies the fields of tissue engineering, surgery and medical implants into a new concept of 'robotic implants'. The proposed robotic implants are one-size-fits-all linings for tubular tissues that enable autonomous tissue-responsive mechanical interaction with tissues to induce their growth.
Based on evidence from cell biology studies and clinical practice showing how tissues respond to mechanical stimulation in vivo, the proposed robotic implant applies gentle force directly to tissues to induce growth through cell proliferation. Thus, these robotic implants deliver controlled, long-term, customisable and optimal reconstructive therapy for tissues in an unprecedented way. The proposed technology has the potential to restore patients' mobility and social activity, as well as reduce hospitalisation and post-surgery complications, treatment and costs.
This proposal has a pioneering focus: to develop the design, fabrication and control of robotic implants that can physically and physiologically adapt to the changing properties of tissues and stimulate their growth. These robotic implants will consist of fundamental, compact and functional elastomeric strands that can be assembled into an architecture that can elongate with the growing tissue and apply controlled, directional mechanical stimulation to the tissue.
This project is the basis of an exciting interdisciplinary research framework that will allow communities of surgeons, biologists, tissue engineers and tissue mechanics researchers to investigate basic mechanisms of tissue growth and understand the relationships among tissue strain, tissue regeneration and inflammatory responses. In particular, the technology to be developed in this project will be a precursor clinical device for LGOA and SBS. This project also launches an investigation into soft robots that physically adapt and perform inside the body, which is imperative for tissue regeneration and growth as well as for wearable technologies that need to adapt to children's developmental stages.
The proposed project aims to initiate an ambitious research agenda for a novel technology for the repair and reconstruction of soft tubular tissues inside the body using robotic and tissue regeneration principles. The underlying technology unifies the fields of tissue engineering, surgery and medical implants into a new concept of 'robotic implants'. The proposed robotic implants are one-size-fits-all linings for tubular tissues that enable autonomous tissue-responsive mechanical interaction with tissues to induce their growth.
Based on evidence from cell biology studies and clinical practice showing how tissues respond to mechanical stimulation in vivo, the proposed robotic implant applies gentle force directly to tissues to induce growth through cell proliferation. Thus, these robotic implants deliver controlled, long-term, customisable and optimal reconstructive therapy for tissues in an unprecedented way. The proposed technology has the potential to restore patients' mobility and social activity, as well as reduce hospitalisation and post-surgery complications, treatment and costs.
This proposal has a pioneering focus: to develop the design, fabrication and control of robotic implants that can physically and physiologically adapt to the changing properties of tissues and stimulate their growth. These robotic implants will consist of fundamental, compact and functional elastomeric strands that can be assembled into an architecture that can elongate with the growing tissue and apply controlled, directional mechanical stimulation to the tissue.
This project is the basis of an exciting interdisciplinary research framework that will allow communities of surgeons, biologists, tissue engineers and tissue mechanics researchers to investigate basic mechanisms of tissue growth and understand the relationships among tissue strain, tissue regeneration and inflammatory responses. In particular, the technology to be developed in this project will be a precursor clinical device for LGOA and SBS. This project also launches an investigation into soft robots that physically adapt and perform inside the body, which is imperative for tissue regeneration and growth as well as for wearable technologies that need to adapt to children's developmental stages.
Planned Impact
Society. The incidence of paediatric chronic gastrointestinal conditions in Western Europe has been increasing, e.g., incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the UK is 10 in 100,000 live birth (2018), the highest in Europe. In most of these cases, surgery is needed to remove the diseased tissue. The therapies to improve digestion after significant loss of tissue are complex and heroic, yet suboptimal. Two therapies, used in long-gap oesophageal atresia (LGOA) and short bowel syndrome (SBS) conditions, are exemplified. LGOA: is a disease characterised by an incomplete oesophagus, with an incidence of 5 in 10,000 live births in the UK. The most successful surgical technique (Foker technique) consists of attaching sutures to the oesophageal stub ends, to pull them for weeks to elongate them. The baby is sedated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for a month, and hospitalised for more than 6 months. It is the most morbid paediatric surgery, only performed by highly trained surgeons. SBS: is a condition associated with partial loss of the bowel. It has an incidence of 9 out of 100,000 live births in the UK, with a high mortality rate (30%). The treatments often target the dilation of the organ. The child is dependent on parenteral nutrition (PN, i.e. intravenous feeding) for a lifetime, leading to impaired growth and severe diseases.
This project promises an optimal, controlled-at-all-times tissue growth. It will improve patients' and caregivers' quality of life by eliminating the morbidities of these conditions and enabling at-home therapy. The technology can be used by more surgeons as the surgical complexity is reduced. It also promises to remove patients' dependency on PN.
Economy. This project yields the precursor of a medical device for the treatment of LGOA and SBS, and equipment for tissue engineering. The care of patients with chronic conditions is expensive and requires a long-term commitment by trained individuals. The Foker technique costs £900,000 per patient and it is only available in the US. It costs the NHS an estimated £70m per year for alternative treatments, e.g., jejunum grafts. The proposed technology can drastically reduce this cost by 80% overall and the stay in the ICU and hospital by > 60%. The cost for SBS patients exceeds £23m yearly; most costs are in-hospital and home-care charges. By reconstructing the short bowel, these costs are reduced by >65% for a year. Later, they can be fully cut. Considering similar paediatric conditions, e.g., IBD, volvulus (cancer not included), the proposed technology could save the NHS about £160m yearly. The device could also serve as an adaptive scaffold in bioreactors for in vitro tissue engineering. It could also act as an active sensing sleeve on surgical robotic manipulators. Such technology can be licensed and sold on a growing market of bioreactors and surgical robotics to produce a significant impact on a 5- to10-year time scale.
People. This project will have a positive impact on the careers of the PI and PDRA. They will both gain additional experience in the translational aspects of in vivo mechatronics, soft physically-adaptive robots and autonomous tissue repair. The exposure to the clinic and medical industry will help the team build a larger network of collaborators for future funding proposals. The EPSRC grant is an important step in the PI's academic career, helping her consolidate her new lecturer position and raise her international profile in medical robotics.
Knowledge. This interdisciplinary project will advance the state-of-the-art research in surgical robotics, soft robotics and tissue regeneration, which are areas of great importance for the UK. The findings of this project will also affect closely related research fields, including in silico tissue medicine and prosthetics. The research impact includes scientific advances about physically-adaptive robots inside our bodies and novel techniques in tissue engineering and surgery.
This project promises an optimal, controlled-at-all-times tissue growth. It will improve patients' and caregivers' quality of life by eliminating the morbidities of these conditions and enabling at-home therapy. The technology can be used by more surgeons as the surgical complexity is reduced. It also promises to remove patients' dependency on PN.
Economy. This project yields the precursor of a medical device for the treatment of LGOA and SBS, and equipment for tissue engineering. The care of patients with chronic conditions is expensive and requires a long-term commitment by trained individuals. The Foker technique costs £900,000 per patient and it is only available in the US. It costs the NHS an estimated £70m per year for alternative treatments, e.g., jejunum grafts. The proposed technology can drastically reduce this cost by 80% overall and the stay in the ICU and hospital by > 60%. The cost for SBS patients exceeds £23m yearly; most costs are in-hospital and home-care charges. By reconstructing the short bowel, these costs are reduced by >65% for a year. Later, they can be fully cut. Considering similar paediatric conditions, e.g., IBD, volvulus (cancer not included), the proposed technology could save the NHS about £160m yearly. The device could also serve as an adaptive scaffold in bioreactors for in vitro tissue engineering. It could also act as an active sensing sleeve on surgical robotic manipulators. Such technology can be licensed and sold on a growing market of bioreactors and surgical robotics to produce a significant impact on a 5- to10-year time scale.
People. This project will have a positive impact on the careers of the PI and PDRA. They will both gain additional experience in the translational aspects of in vivo mechatronics, soft physically-adaptive robots and autonomous tissue repair. The exposure to the clinic and medical industry will help the team build a larger network of collaborators for future funding proposals. The EPSRC grant is an important step in the PI's academic career, helping her consolidate her new lecturer position and raise her international profile in medical robotics.
Knowledge. This interdisciplinary project will advance the state-of-the-art research in surgical robotics, soft robotics and tissue regeneration, which are areas of great importance for the UK. The findings of this project will also affect closely related research fields, including in silico tissue medicine and prosthetics. The research impact includes scientific advances about physically-adaptive robots inside our bodies and novel techniques in tissue engineering and surgery.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca (Collaboration)
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Collaboration)
- SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Verona (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Florence (Collaboration)
- Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Collaboration)
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital (Project Partner)
- Harvard University (Project Partner)
- B Braun Medical Ltd (Project Partner)
- Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust (Project Partner)
Publications
Damian D
(2020)
Regenerative robotics
in Birth Defects Research
Damian DD
(2020)
Regenerative robotics.
in Birth defects research
Perez-Guagnelli E
(2022)
Hyperelastic Membrane Actuators: Analysis of Toroidal and Helical Multifunctional Configurations.
in Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.)
Atwya M
(2021)
Flexible and Expandable Robot for Tissue Therapies - Modeling and Design.
in IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Atwya M
(2020)
Flexible and Expandable Robot for Tissue Therapies - Modeling and Design
in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Perez-Guagnelli E
(2020)
Characterization, Simulation and Control of a Soft Helical Pneumatic Implantable Robot for Tissue Regeneration
in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
Pontin M
(2020)
A Physical Soft Tissue Growth Simulator for Implantable Robotic Devices
in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
Perez Guagnelli E
(2020)
Characterization, Simulation and Control of a Soft Helical Pneumatic Implantable Robot for Tissue Regeneration
in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
Pontin M
(2020)
A physical soft tissue growth simulator for implantable robotic devices
in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
Perez-Guagnelli E
(2022)
Deflected Versus Preshaped Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Design and Performance Analysis Toward Reliable Soft Robots.
in Soft robotics
Title | Emphatic Glove |
Description | We developed a wearable glove that provides a couple of pressure patterns to the user, in order to impress an emphatic touch resembling the hand held gesture from a nurse or a friend. This is a collaboration with the artist Kaisu Koski from Sheffield Hallam University. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | The CARING FUTURES ART EXHIBITION took place at Sølvberget Stavanger, Norway 17. September - 18. December 2022. The exhibition is of regional and national importance. The impact is not known at this time. |
URL | https://www.uis.no/sites/default/files/2022-09/Digital%20katalog%20Caring%20futures.pdf |
Description | There are a couple of significant achievements from this award: - we produced a soft device featuring a 3D arrangement of ballooning membranes whose extension (more than 300%) at pressure inputs as low as 30kPa makes it one of the most effective soft actuators in the field - we produced a conductive hydraulic system for soft robots, thus achieving sensing and actuation at the same time. The sensing capabilities can be adjusted and enhanced through a replenishable fluidic circuit. -we produces a technology to endow soft robots with resilient feature to faults such as bursts |
Exploitation Route | The current outcomes can be taken forward in a number of ways: (1) advancement to a clinical device for tissue regeneration using mechanical stimulation; (3) development of sensorized hydraulic soft robotic systems; (3) development of resilient mechanisms for soft robots. |
Sectors | Education Electronics Healthcare Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
URL | https://sites.google.com/site/danadamian/ |
Description | The findings have been used as follows: (1) Demonstrators for public and specialist audience engagement: We created demonstrators and showcased them in workshop as well as an open lab visits to our partners and stakeholders. We also demonstrated our technology in virtual innovation hub events, and published videos on our lab's youtube channel, e.g. UK Robotics Festival's Robotics Live Lab Demo. (2) Involvement in outreach events, e.g., STEM 2020, Departmental Open Days, where results of the project have been shown. (3) Involvement in dissemination activities, e.g., clinical conferences (Child Health Tech Conference 2020), robotics conferences (IEEE ICRA, Embodied Intelligence Workshop), industrial networking (EPSRC Strategic Task on Soft Robotics). (4) Involvement with stakeholders for the medical technology: clinicians, surgeons, manufacturers, investors, policy makers. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Education,Healthcare,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Citation in 'Decade of Medical Robotics' |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
URL | https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scirobotics.abi8017 |
Description | Citation in Reviews |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
Description | Citation in Reviews |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
Description | Summer School on Surgical Robotics |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
URL | https://www.uis.no/sites/default/files/2022-09/Digital%20katalog%20Caring%20futures.pdf |
Description | Lean Launch Pad Cohort 14 |
Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 04/2022 |
Description | Translational boost for device usability study |
Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Sheffield |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 07/2023 |
Description | Ben Gurion University, Israel |
Organisation | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Country | Israel |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We are exchanging know how for surgical training. I was introduced to her collaborators in Israel (companies) who are developing relevant surgical devices. |
Collaborator Contribution | I am introduced to know how for training surgical skills, collaborators landscape and ideas shaping for future innovation. |
Impact | Not yet. We are writing a proposal together. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Sant'Anna University |
Organisation | Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Exchange of know-how and innovation ideas during grant proposal writing. Introduced relevant collaborators, e.g., hospitals, that are relevant to my research. |
Collaborator Contribution | Know-how and innovation ideas during grant proposal writing. Introduced relevant collaborators, e.g., hospitals, that are relevant to my research. |
Impact | Not yet. We are writing a proposal jointly. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Sheffield Hallam University |
Organisation | Sheffield Hallam University |
Department | Sheffield Institute of Arts |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We developed a pneumatic glove |
Collaborator Contribution | They manufactured part of the glove and finalised it into an artwork for two overseas exhibitions. |
Impact | Exhibition.https://www.uis.no/en/caring-futures-art-exhibition Multidisciplinary. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | University of Cambridge |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Department | Department of Engineering |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Meetings to write proposal and plan workshops |
Collaborator Contribution | Meetings to write proposal and plan workshops, invitations to help organise workshop, and participate in workshop |
Impact | Invitation to speak and chair forums at the Embodied Intelligence Workshop 2021 (multidisciplinary) |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | University of Firenze |
Organisation | University of Florence |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Meetings for a collaboration and grant writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Meetings for a collaboration and grant writing Discussing design requirements for technology of this grant |
Impact | Project Proposal under review. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | University of Oxford |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Department of Engineering Science |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Meetings to write research proposal |
Collaborator Contribution | Meetings to write research proposal |
Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary Grant proposal write-up leading to submission |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | University of Veterinary Medicine, Cluj Napoca, Romania |
Organisation | University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca |
Country | Romania |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | A presentation of my research and particularly of the current project, as well as possible funding options for collaboration. |
Collaborator Contribution | A presentation of their research and facilities relevant to the current project, as well as possible funding options for collaboration. |
Impact | Established routes of collaborative funding, academic exchanges, and topics of common interest for funding proposals related to the current project. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Verona collaboration |
Organisation | University of Verona |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We are exchanging know-how for a collaborative project regarding methods to improve surgical training |
Collaborator Contribution | The partner is providing know how about methods to apply to physical and digital systems for surgical training. They also introduced me to companies and institutes overseas which can help with this topic. |
Impact | None so far. We are writing a proposal together. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Title | HBMA |
Description | A soft actuator that shows hyperelastic elongation (~300%) at as little as 30kPa. |
Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | Two journal publications that are conditionally accepted, and a conference paper in ICRA 2021. |
Title | Physical simulator of tissue growth and stiffness |
Description | A physical simulator of tissue growth and stiffness, to be used for benchtop tests to verify robotic implants and in vivo devices |
Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | A journal paper in IEEE Medical Robots and Bionics |
Title | Preclinical soft implant |
Description | We developed a soft implant that is ready for preclinical use. |
Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | We received positive feedback from a project selection committee in charge of an MRC budget, and we were invited to resubmit the project which proposes the testing of this device in preclinical trials. |
Title | Robotic bioreactor |
Description | A device that allows closed loop adjustments and measurement of traction force on the in vitro construct |
Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | A peer-review conference paper in the proceedings of ICRA 2021 |
Description | ACSE Taster Days |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The activity consisted of a talk about Dr Damian's group's research and Q&A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Caring Futures exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our lab together jointly with artists from Sheffield Hallam University have a piece of work at the Caring Futures exhibition at Sølvberget Galleri, Stavanger, Norway. September 17-December 18, 2022. The project is entitled 'Pneumatic kitchen: Hand-holding Gloves' and belong to a speculative emphatic clothing line. Credits: Kaisu Koski and Roland van Dierendonck (Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University), in collaboration with Kripa A. Binny, Joanna Jones, and Dana Damian (Sheffield Biomedical Robotics Lab). Pictures below are courtesy of Kaisu Koski. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.uis.no/sites/default/files/2022-09/Digital%20katalog%20Caring%20futures.pdf |
Description | Channel Talent |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | A talk about robotics with a focus on biomedical robotics and inside the body robots exemplification. More than 20 high school students pre-registered and attended an interactive session. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/robotics-artificial-intelligence-robots-that-are-soft-achievin... |
Description | Demo at Child Health Technology Conference 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | At the Child Health Technology Conference we ran a technical demonstration of our robot to a virtual audience. The audience was engaged through questions in the virtual environment. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://cypmedtech.nihr.ac.uk/child-health-technology-2021/ |
Description | Discussions and interviews with stakeholders |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We reached out to practitioners, manufacturers, policy makers, investors to understand the market for the technology in this project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://sheffield.portals.in-part.com/xjE7rnXy73Ry? |
Description | Hamlyn Symposium Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A workshop on 'Towards Versatile and Seamless Surgical Technologies' with a line-up of international speakers and forum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.hamlynsymposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HSMR22-PDF-Programme-.pdf |
Description | Lab open day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Sheffield Robotics open days. More than 60 people attended the event. We showcased demos of our robots and engaged with the guests. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Project Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | max 10 professionals, e.g., veterinary staff, surgeons, attended a meeting where we present our project developments, and they provide input, further guidance about the next steps |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | STEM 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The activity consisted of a taster talk about my research and Q&A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | STEM for Girls |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Girls visited our stand and one of the platforms was a soft robotic implant. The audience shows interest in soft robotics technology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | UK Robotics Festival's Robotics Live Lab Demo |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was a virtual labtour to present a research project in our lab. We presented the soft robotic implant. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9a21XevFMI&list=PLG49z_90JjdBb4r1TbJYPlSY--4dUg8W1&index=2&t=3130s |
Description | Website to conduct market discovery of the soft implant |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As part of the Lean Launch Pad programme I'm involved in, we are conducting a market discovery of the soft implant and we speak and interview a variety of stakeholders, who input to our final design, to the translation of the implant. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://sheffield.portals.in-part.com/xjE7rnXy73Ry? |
Description | What Is The Limit To Soft Robots For Embodied Intelligence? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | The topic of the podcast was soft robotics and embodied intelligence. More than 500 people listened or viewed the podcast which was broadcast on Spotify, Soundcloud and Youtube. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://soundcloud.com/ieeeras-softrobotics/dana-damian-shuhei-miyashita-embodied-intelligence-in-so... |