Pokuang Zhou
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5
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14
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About
Pokuang Zhou is a roboticist advancing the frontiers of dexterous manipulation, safe human-robot collaboration, and tactile sensing. His core research centers on enabling robots to perform complex, in-hand tasks—such as singulation, scooping, and cable untangling—using a novel 5-degree-of-freedom tactile gripper that reacts to touch in real time. This work, detailed in his most cited paper (7 citations), addresses the longstanding challenge of achieving high dexterity without the redundancy and complexity of multi-fingered hands. Zhou also tackles the critical safety problem in human-robot collaboration, introducing risk-tunable control barrier functions that guarantee safety constraints even with uncertain human positions (4 citations). His contributions extend to precision agriculture, where he developed a tactile-enabled robotic system for autonomous corn leaf phenotyping using high-resolution hyperspectral imaging, and to surgery, with the *TacScope*—a miniaturized vision-based tactile sensor designed to restore tactile feedback in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. By blending hardware innovation with rigorous control theory, Zhou is creating robots that can touch, feel, and collaborate safely, with applications spanning manufacturing, agriculture, and medicine.
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