RUG Professor of Robotics, Raffaella Carloni, nominated for Klokhuis Science Prize 2025
Until 16 March, you can vote for your favourite research via Het Klokhuis. The winning research will get its own Klokhuis episode. The winner will be announced during the International Science Film Festival: Meet the Researcher.
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Would you like to read about the prize and research of the candidates? You can do this via the website of Het Klokhuis (only in Dutch). You can also vote for which research you find the most interesting!
A bionic leg to go anywhere
When you no longer have a lower leg, it's hard to just walk. With the prosthesis, you have to think about it all the time and you don't walk up a hill so easily, for example. I am working on designing a bionic leg that can move just like a natural leg. The parts work just like your muscles and bones. So you don't walk like a robot, but rather like someone who still has two legs. You then don't have to think about having a prosthesis and you can just move around and do fun things.
Imagine a bionic leg that not only allows someone to walk again, but also allows them to do so without thinking about it all the time. That would make life much easier for those who need such a prosthesis.
In 2023, Carloni won the FSE Impact Award for her work on bionic knees. She studies methods and techniques that allow systems from robotics to interact smoothly with humans.
| Last modified: | 04 March 2025 11.40 a.m. |
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