Funding

Our research is supported by the following grants and awards.

£522,384

Tactile-Driven Autonomy in Robot-Assisted Surgery (TARAS)

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) · Jan 2025 – Jan 2028 · Principal Investigator

Developing tactile sensing and intelligent control methods to enable safe, semi-autonomous tissue manipulation on existing robot-assisted surgical platforms.

£12,405

Collaboration on Robot-Assisted Ophthalmic Surgery

UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS) · 2025 · Project Lead

Collaborative project between the University of Leeds and Johns Hopkins University to develop robotic methods for robot-assisted ophthalmic surgery.

£64,756

Crack Monitoring in Civil Infrastructure Using IoT-Deployed Sensors

University of Leeds UKRI Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) · Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 · Principal Investigator

Cross-disciplinary

Translating novel IoT-enabled sensing technology into a deployable crack-monitoring system for civil infrastructure, in collaboration with industry.