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Bio-inspired Robotics

Episode 135 – Robot anatomy and design

Claire Asher 28th November, 2025


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  • fast_forward 00:00:30 – Intro – Welcome
  • fast_forward 00:02:08 – Chapa Sirithunge – Primate-inspired robot hands
  • fast_forward 00:14:32 – Chapa Sirithunge – Making the construction industry safer
  • fast_forward 00:24:39 – Outro – Thanks for listening

Claire chatted to Chapa Sirithunge from the University of Cambridge about what robots can teach us about human anatomy, and vice versa.

Chapa Sirithunge is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow in robotics at the University of Cambridge. She has an undergraduate degree and PhD  in Electrical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. Before joining the University of Cambridge in 2022, she was a lecturer at Sri Lanka Technological Campus and a visiting lecturer at the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. Her research interests span assistive robotics, soft robots and physical human-robot interaction. In addition to her research, she founded Women in Robotics Cambridge to help young minds navigate their path into robotics.

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