Dr Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne

Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne

Lecturer in Robotics and Mechatronics

School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/staff/t.dulanthalalitharatne/
Centre for Advanced Robotics
Centre for Bioengineering
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Research

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Social Robotics, Medical Robotics, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), Soft Robotics, Bio-Inspired Robotics

Interests

My research interests lie at the intersection of mutlimodal human-robot interaction (HRI), social and medical robotics, brain-computer Interfaces (BCI) and soft robotics. One of the long-term goals of my research is to address the social interactions problem (one of the ten grand challenges in robotics) in robots and to develop robots which can co-exist with humans while maintaining long term interactions. I am also interested in utilizing BCIs to enhance the interactions between humans and robots, including controlling robots using BCIs. Additionally, my research will explore soft and bio-inspired robotic approaches to create smarter and safer robots capable of coexisting with humans.