Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Kühn
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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
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)