Mohamed Sorour

About

Mohamed Sorour is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous mobile robots, human-robot collaboration, and bioinspired manipulation. He has made significant contributions to the field of mobile manipulation, particularly through his involvement in the BAZAR project (2019, 51 citations), which advanced collaborative robotics for next-generation manufacturing environments. Sorour is perhaps best known for his sustained work on autonomous wall-painting robotics, pioneering the concept through early system development in 2011 (33 citations) and refining it into the fully realized RoboPainter platform by 2015 (20 citations) — addressing a genuine labor shortage problem in the construction industry across both developed and developing nations. A recurring theme in Sorour's research is the challenge of controlling steerable wheeled mobile robots (SWMRs), where he has addressed motion discontinuities, singularity treatment, and kinematic modeling under joint acceleration constraints (earning combined citations exceeding 48). His 2019 work on mobile manipulation further extended these contributions to human-shared environments. Most recently, his AntGrip project (2025) demonstrates a creative turn toward nature-inspired gripper design, mimicking ant mandible hairs to improve bin-picking performance. Across his career, Sorour's research consistently bridges theoretical rigor with practical, industry-relevant robotics applications.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A collaborative robot for the factory of the future: BAZAR

   51 citations · 2019
2. 2
   Development Of Roller-Based Interior Wall Painting Robot

   33 citations · 2011
3. 3
   RoboPainter — A detailed robot design for interior wall painting

   20 citations · 2015
4. 4
   Motion Discontinuity-Robust Controller for Steerable Mobile Robots

   19 citations · 2016
5. 5
   Complementary-route based ICR control for steerable wheeled mobile robots

   15 citations · 2019
6. 6
   Kinematic modeling and singularity treatment of steerable wheeled mobile robots with joint acceleration limits

   14 citations · 2016
7. 7
   Motion Control for Steerable Wheeled Mobile Manipulation

   11 citations · 2019
8. 8
   AntGrip—Boosting Parallel Plate Gripper Performance Inspired by the Internal Hairs of Ant Mandibles

   1 citations · 2025

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