01 / ROBOTICS
Wearable & Rehabilitation Robotics
Reconfigurable cable-driven robots, exoskeleton mechanisms, and human-in-the-loop assistance for functional movement.
SUNY KOREA · MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Engineering robots
around humans.
We design intelligent robotic systems that understand, support, and adapt to human movement — from wearable assistance to computational mechanism design.
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Who we are
About the Lab
HEARD Lab stands for Human-centered Engineering and Autonomous Robot Design. We are a research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Korea.
Our mission is to create robotic systems that are grounded in the mechanics of both machines and people. We combine robotic hardware, control, biomechanical sensing, and computational design to understand movement and develop personalized assistance.
We see design, control, and movement analysis as complementary parts of the same engineering problem: creating robots that work with people.
Meet our team ↗Research · Design · Experiments
What we do
Research Directions
From new mechanisms to meaningful human assistance — three connected research themes.
02 / HUMAN MOVEMENT
Movement & Biomechanics
Whole-body motion analysis, postural stability, coordination, and quantitative metrics for movement assessment.
03 / DESIGN
Autonomous Robot Design
Mechanism synthesis, topology optimization, and computational methods that transform functional needs into robotic designs.
Around the lab
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Research output
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Leadership
Principal Investigator
Jeonghan Yu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · Mechanical Engineering
SUNY Korea
Ph.D., Seoul National University
Former postdoctoral researcher, Columbia University
Our people
All members ↗Current Members
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