Dr Luis Figueredo
Assistant Professor in Assistive Robotics and Manipulation
Luis Figueredo is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Assistive Robotics and Manipulation at the University of Nottingham. He holds an awarded PhD Thesis from the University of Brasilia, Brazil, with a two-year visiting research period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he received multiple awards for robot live demos at flagship robotics venues (IROS and ICAPS). He was also awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Leeds. During his fellowship, he pioneered works on biomechanics-aware manipulation planning and developed open-source AI tools acknowledged by the EU Innovation Radar. Luis also held leadership roles in large-scale projects like the Geriatronics Lighthouse Initiative at Munich Institute of Robotics & Machine Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he still holds an Associated Fellowship Position. With a robust interdisciplinary background, Luis has published over 50 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers in prestigious venues across multiple domains including safety in robotics, physical human-robot interaction, certified and constraint-satisfaction controllers, cooperative manipulation, biomechanics-aware manipulation, shared-control, multimodal perception and natural language integration in robotics, geometric methods and control, time-delayed systems, and hybrid, robust and optimal control for robotics.
