Liang He
Associate Professor
Develops soft and wearable robotics, biosensors and haptics, exploring embodied-AI solutions for healthcare.
Liang He's lab at Oxford works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots and soft, surgical & micro robots. 22 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly IROS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 5%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 4 papers2025 · T1 0
- 6 papers2024 · T1 1
- 7 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: IROS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Soft, surgical & micro robots9 papers
- soft9 papers
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots4 papers
- haptics0 papers
- embodied-ai0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- RoboSoft3D-Printed Highly Entangled Hydrogels for Strong, Fast, and Fatigue-Resistant Soft Hydraulic Actuators (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsDesign, modelling, and control of a bio-inspired passive-extensible McKibben muscle system with self-sensing and self-locking (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of BiomechanicsEvaluation of a smartphone-based markerless motion capture system for assessing the kinematics of gymnastics (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringLLM-Guided Adaptive Compensator: Bringing Adaptivity to Robotic Feedback Control With Large Language Model (opens in a new tab)
- Advanced Robotics ResearchReal‐Time Holographic Feedback via Mixed Reality Sensorized Laryngoscope Training System Enhances Pediatric Intubation Training (opens in a new tab)
20254 papers
- RoboSoftA Modular Dual-Mode Haptic Actuator for Low and High Frequency Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftDesigning Kresling Origami for Personalised Wrist Orthosis* (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftStretchable Capacitive and Resistive Strain Sensors: Accessible Manufacturing Using Direct Ink Writing (opens in a new tab)
- SensorsVision-Based Hand Function Evaluation with Soft Robotic Rehabilitation Glove (opens in a new tab)
20246 papers
- i-CREATeA Simulation Study on Model Reference Adaptive Trajectory Controller for Back Stretchable McKibben Pneumatic Artificial Muscles (opens in a new tab)
- i-CREATeDesign of a Self-Locking Component for McKibben Muscle Back-Stretchablility (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftImproving the Loading and Sensing Performance of a Soft Actuator Using an Internal Spine (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics ReportsSPADA: a toolbox of designing soft pneumatic actuators for shape matching based on surrogate modeling (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)The design of a sensorized laryngoscope training system for pediatric intubation (opens in a new tab)
- Soft RoboticsToward Onboard Proportional Control of Multi-Chamber Soft Pneumatic Robots: A Magnetorheological Elastomer Valve Array (opens in a new tab)
20237 papers
- IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTA Sensor Placement Benchmarking Method With Principal Component Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMSA Toolbox for Designing 3D-Printing-Ready Pneumatic Circuits for Controlling Soft Robots (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftDesign optimization for bellow soft pneumatic actuators in shape-matching (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftEDAMS: an Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Multi-grasp Soft sensing object recognition (opens in a new tab)
- IOP Conference Series Materials Science and EngineeringEmbodied active tactile perception (opens in a new tab)
- ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALSRubber-Like Soft Lattice Structure for Anti-Ballooning in Fluidic Elastic Soft Robots (opens in a new tab)
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEETouch Technology in Affective Human-, Robot-, and Virtual-Human Interactions: A Survey (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to Oxford2027-28
DPhil in Computer Science
- Round
- 2027-28 entry (January round)
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