Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Kühn

Research Assistent mail: johannes.kuehntum.de hours: By appointment only. List of Publications Projects

About me

I'm a PhD student here at IRT and was previously:

• a student at Leibniz University of Hannover with major in electrical engineering (2008-2013)
• a visiting student at Robert Bosch GmbH (CR/AEG) headquarters in Stuttgart (6 month in 2013)
• a robotics intern at Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, California, USA (6 month in 2012/13)

 Profiles

• GoogleScholar
• LinkedIn

Research

Fields of interest

• Robotics Control (domain: physical Human Robot Interaction)
• Prosthetics
• Human Motor Control

 My latest research 

Proprio- and Exteroceptive Reflexes for a Pneumatically Actuated Finger based on the artificial Robot Nervous System (ICRA, Singapore, May 2017) Paper:  link Video: Proprio- and Exteroceptive Reflexes for a Pneumatically Actuated Finger based on the aRNS

 Press

• Pain in the machine (Cambridge University, October 2016)
• Researchers Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain (IEEE Spectrum Robotics Blog, May 2016)
  • Why scientists want robots to learn to feel pain (Washington Post, May 2016)
  • Researchers teach robots to 'feel pain' (BBC, May 2016)
  • Se il robot sente dolore: ci spaventa ma può servire (Repubblica.it, major italien newspaper)
  • German scientists are training robots to 'feel' pain (engaged.com, May 2016)
  • Researchers want robots to feel pain (theverge.com, May 2016)
  • To make them smarter, researchers are teaching robots to feel pain (Yahoo.com, June 2016)

• Intelligente Prothesen: Wissenschaftler forscht an feinfühligen Robotern in Hannover (SAT1 Regional - July 2015)

Students

I am always looking for talented and motivated students to become part of my research group. If you are interested in writing a thesis in my research field please contact me via kuehn@irt.uni-hannover.de.

 Teaching

• Robotics I (Tutorial)
• Automatic Control I (Laboratory)
• Mechatronics I (Laboratory)