News Archive
08/2025 Two papers accepted to IEEE NER 2025 and an oral presentation (Nanosymposium) at Neuroscience 2025! I will be in San Diego this November to present our work in motor unit spike trains-to-force ML pipeline that works across different subjects and tasks, and our work in motor unit tracking in constrained and unconstrained finger force tasks.
07/2025 Our ICORR paper on the first-ever body-powered extra robotic finger is live! Check it out here.
07/2025 Delighted to attend and present a poster at the Summer School on Human Interfacing and augmentation! This was a great opportunity to discuss the feasability of motoneuron-level control interfaces and other emerging trends in the field.
05/2025 I participated in the BR41N.IO Hackathon! My teammates and I analysed EEG from stroke patients during hand motor imagery tasks using Riemannian manifolds, neural networks, and feature importance analyses. Our goal was to improve task classification accuracy and draw phyosologically-meaningfuls insights. Our code and slides are available in this open repository.
03/2025 As part of my visit to Lima (Peru), I presented my work on robotics and neural interfaces for human augmentation. The talk is available here in Spanish.
02/2025 Ended the semester by presenting a poster at the AI Day at Uni Bayreuth, representing the AI Association. It was a great opportunity to connect with others using AI/ML in their research!
02/2025 New paper accepted! Our paper on the body-powered supernumerary robotic finger was accepted at ICORR 2025, part of RehabWeek taking place this May in Chicago.
12/2024 New repository published! Released the bpSRF, a body-powered supernumerary robotic finger for hand augmentation that requires no electronic components. The repository includes files for 3D printing and full assembly instructions.
11/2024 Two papers published on the experimental characterization of a soft robotic device for mechanotherapy and the computational analysis of its interaction with skin-muscle tissue.
11/2024 Our Bayreuth AI Association is now live on LinkedIn! Follow us here.
10/2024 Our paper on the upper-limb prosthetic tool for handlebar-driven vehicles is now live on IEEE Xplore.
09/2024 Presented a poster on a low-cost upper-limb prosthetic tool for handlebar-driven vehicles at BioRob 2024 in Heidelberg, Germany.
07/2024 Completed the certification for the NeuroAI course by Neuromatch Academy. Ready to apply what I learned on neuro-inspired AI and ML!
07/2024 Presented a poster at the HybridNeuro 2024 meeting in Maribor, Slovenia. It was a great opportunity to delve into techniques for improving the motor unit decomposition pipeline and network with talented academics in the field.
05/2024 Featured by UBTaktuell for co-founding the new Bayreuth AI Association, aiming to create a space for the open exchange of ideas and experiences in the hands-on use of AI/ML algorithms.
04/2024 Presented a poster at the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Highlights included talks and posters by Meta on non-invasive neural interfacing.
12/2023 Presented a poster at the Neurophysiological Bases of Human Movement meeting at King’s College London, UK. Discussions with other researchers applying motor unit decomposition inspired new approaches for upcoming projects.
12/23 Our lab was featured by Zeit, SAT1, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and idw regarding our “live-in-lab,” an apartment equipped with sensors for real-world human behavior studies. More information in this press release.
11/2023 Attended the Augmentation Day workshop at Imperial College London, featuring expert talks and live demos of the MUVE system. Controlling extra arms was a surreal experience.
09/2023 Featured by Andina News and El Peruano regarding our patent on finger covers for hand prostheses, recognized at an Inventions Contest in Korea (KIWIE 2023).
07/2023 Our paper on human augmentation was featured as Editor’s choice: interfacing humans with machines in Nature Science Reports.
06/2023 A month jam-packed with conferences! I attended the 10th BCI meeting in Brussels and presented (virtually) at the IEEE BioSmart 23′ on my work on supernumerary robotic fingers for assistance (link to paper). Then, I also gave an oral presentation at the 2023 Summer School on Neurorehabilitation on my work in motor unit decomposition over individual fingers (link to slides, short paper in Springer coming up). Finally, I also attended Munich’s Automatica.
02/2023 Lab retreat time! Presented a poster at the Bayreuth Lab for Digital Sciences (BayLDS) Day together with our lab colleagues visiting from London. Then, we spent three days at Kloster Speinshart for a science retreat. We even met the town’s mayor! (Link to photos)
10/2022 Presented a poster at the Third Neuroadaptive Technologies Conference, at Lübennau (Germany) on my previous work in human augmentation and motor learning.
06/2022 Started new PhD studies and research assistant position at the Chair of Digital Health with a Focus on Data Science (University of Bayreuth, Germany). Excited to continue researching on human augmentation!
11/2021 Published paper on the design of a soft robotic device for blood flow stimulation.
11/2021 Invited talk on artificial limbs @ Engineering Update 2021 organised by the IEEE EMBS, RAS and WIE Student Chapters from Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico).
11/2021 Published paper on Nature’s Scientific Reports. This paper is related to my MSc thesis work on human augmentation.
10/2021 Paper presented @ 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society on the design of a soft robotic device for blood flow stimulation. More in this related tweet.
09/2021 Invited talk on artificial limbs @ Innovation, Technology and Engineering Congress 2021 organised by the IEEE EMBS Universidad Católica Boliviana (Bolivia) Student Chapter.
08/2021 Featured on the Daily Mail UK news website on my previous collaborative work on robotic augmentation and motor learning at the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory (Imperial College London). Also featured in Imperial College News, Reuters, New Scientist, CBC, VOA, Yahoo News, Mirror, and other media.
07/2021 Paper accepted @EMBC 2021 on soft robotic device for muscle stimulation . You can read the accepted version here.
07/2021 Invited talk on artificial limbs organised by the IEEE EMBS Universidad de Concepción (Chile) Student Chapter. You can watch my talk here (in Spanish).
03/2021 Invited talk on upper limb prostheses organised by the IEEE EMBS PUCP Student Chapter. You can watch my talk here (in Spanish).
02/2021 Featured on Andina News on our work on myoelectric prostheses.
01/2021 Co-founded a new company on low-cost rehabilitation robotics technology. Go follow LAT Bionics for pics and videos of our hand prostheses!
12/2020 Thanks to a new applied research grant we will be working on the development of a novel transhumeral prosthesis controlled by biosignals.
05/2020 New preprint paper on our study about motor learning with an additional robotic finger.
03/2020 Started working as hired lecturer @ PUCP. See my lecturer profile page.
09/2019 Successfully presented my MSc thesis on human augmentation and motor control after working at Imperial’s Brain and Behaviour Laboratory. In conclusion, the ability to control an extra robotic finger highly depends on the skill controlling the interface (using foot motor control in our case). You can read my thesis here.
08/2019 Published paper on mechanical testing methods applied to a 3D printed prosthetic hand.
11/2018 Awarded Best Student Paper at the 18th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering. Read the paper here.
10/2018 2 papers presented @ 18th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering in Taiwan.
07/2018 Invited talk “Bioengineering and Technology for Healthcare” @Universidad Continental (Peru)
04/2018 Featured on PUCP news website on our work on bionic hand prosthetics.
03/2018 Paper @ 3rd Conference on Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics – A 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand with Modular Reconfigurable Fingers.
08/2017 Featured on La República (news website) on our work in affordable 3D-printed hand prostheses.
04/2017 Featured on PUCP news website on new social start-up Giving a Hand.
03/2017 Interviewed on TV Perú about 3D-printed hand prostheses and our social start-up Giving a Hand.
10/2016 Poster presented @ Cybathlon 2016 Symposium. Read the abstract here (pp 42).
08/2016 GIRAB co-organised the first edition of Makeathon in Peru, an event in which students and professionals volunteered to develop open-source technological solutions for people with disabilities. Watch the event’s video.
04/2016 Awarded 1st place in Peru in the NASA Space Apps Challenge.