Biography
Dr Helge Wurdemann is a roboticist and Professor of Robotics at University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. He leads the Soft Haptics and Robotics Lab in the university’s Department of Engineering, , which develops soft robots that adapt their shape and stiffness to bridge the gap between rigid and flexible systems. Professor Wurdemann creates and embeds innovative stiffness-controllable mechanisms as well as combines advanced Artificial Intelligence with control strategies in robotic prototypes emerging from his lab.
Professor Wurdemann has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, the majority of which are published in top journals in the field, including Nature Communications and journals of the IEEE and ASME, and in proceedings of leading international conferences. He has served as Associate Editor for prestigious robotics conferences (ICRA and IROS), as Associate VP within the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Conference Activities Board, and as a member of the IET Robotics and Mechatronics TPN Executive Board. He was a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and Co-General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 2023, hosted for the first time in the United Kingdom the same year. He is currently a member of the ICRA Steering Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Panel Presentation (2025) | TBA
