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Hareesh Godaba, Ph.D.

Lecturer (Assistant Professor),

Bioengineering Group

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

University of Southampton.

I am a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southampton and a member of the Bioengineering research group. Prior to this, I was a faculty member at the University of Sussex and part of the Centre for Robotics and Sensing Technologies (CROSS-Tech). Until Novemebr 2020, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary (ARQ) in Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) on the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR) Project developing sensing and actuation technologies for application to extreme environments. Prior to this, I was a Research Fellow in Advanced Sensotronics Lab in the National University of Singapore (NUS) where I developed stretchable and self-healing light sources for the next generation displays and soft robots. I received my Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2018 with my thesis focussing on the mechanics of dielectric elastomer actuators. My research has been published and highlighted in reputed venues such as Nature Materials, Soft Matter, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and has been covered in international media including Reuters (UK), Straits Times (Singapore) and the Deccan Chronicle (India).

At the University of Southampton, I am investigating the intersection of functional materials, applied mechanics and bioinspiration to develop intelligent soft robots and devices to tackle significant challenges in industrial and biomedical applications.

If you are interested in collaborating with us or joining our group, please feel free to get in touch.

For a comprehensive coverage of our previous work, watch the video of a talk I delivered recently:

Soft Materials Technologies for bioinspired robot: Dr. Hareesh, Univ of Sussex, UK

Our work on high resolution large area tactile sensing has been published in IEEE Transactions in Robotics. Congrats to Ruxiang Jiang and the co-authors!

High Resolution, Large Area Vision-Based Tactile Sensing Based on a Novel Piezoluminescent Skin | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore

In this work, we developed a novel piezoluminescent skin which changes the intensity of emitted light at the point of contact. Utilising image processing techniques, we realized a cylindrical tactile sensor that gives realtime force localization and pressure estimation for intuitive human robot collaboration. We achieved multipoint pressure estimation over an expansive area of 502 sq.cm with high spatial resolution, a two-point discrimination distance of 3 mm horizontally and 5 mm vertically which is comparable to that of human fingers as well as a high localization accuracy (RMSE of 1.92 mm)

News. Our work on wireless surgical sutures is now published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

Wirelessly operated bioelectronic sutures for the monitoring of deep surgical wounds | Nature Biomedical Engineering

Nature BME News and Views article on this work:
Sutures for the wireless sensing of deep wounds | Nature Biomedical Engineering

News. 01/07/2020. Three papers on 3d printed variable stiffness gripper (as first author), electronic skin for decoupling forces and strains, and control of eversion robot have been accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020. Congrats to all the contributors.

News. MDPI Robotics Special issue on "Soft Robotics: Fusing Function with Structure" guest edited by Prof. Kaspar Althoefer, Dr. Ahmad Ataka and me is now open for submissions.

Please visit the following website for more details and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/soft-robotics

News. Our work on self-healing electroluminescent device has been published in Nature Materials.

A transparent, self-healing and high-κ dielectric for low-field-emission stretchable optoelectronics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-019-0548-4

Highlighted on Nature Materials News and Views : Lighting up soft robotics

Featured on Strait Times: New material may be answer to crack-proof phone display screens

News: Our work on instabilities in dielectric elastomer actuators has been featured on the inside front cover of Soft Matter.

The paper is available here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/sm/c9sm01145e#!divAbstract