• Question: What project are you working on?

    Asked by beep127tea to Tonia, Sam, Edgars on 10 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Tonia Tzemanaki

      Tonia Tzemanaki answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      I am working on a few projects with my students. One of is about making a small robotic finger that a doctor can teleoperate while using it to diagnose problems (abnormalities) on tissue during an examination of patients. The challenging part is to add a feature on this system so that the doctor can feel what the robotic finger ‘feels’ – this is called haptic feedback and it is something that most teleoperated systems do not have at the moment.

    • Photo: Sam Gaughan

      Sam Gaughan answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      I am learning about how a specific enzyme called biotin synthase reacts to changes in its structure and environment, and seeing if we can find any specific patterns that we can use to our advantage when engineering the enzyme to improve its function, and if we can use those patterns to help us re-engineer other enzymes.

    • Photo: Edgars Kelmers

      Edgars Kelmers answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      I try to invent a “smart” knee implant, which would measure force and temperature in the knee joint. This would allow a doctor to track patient health after surgery.

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