LewsTheri's

I have recently been asked to move into an unused laboratory due to a shortage of rooms and an influx of new researchers to our research school. The original room I was in was actually the 'Control Lab'. There were a lot of old manuals and equipments that were already there when I started my research in 2003. I had all my SMA test beds and equipments in the room but I had to move all my things to the new room. The old stuff will be thrown away if nobody claims them.

My new office is pretty good I guess. For one, the size is bigger, and I have it all for myself, for now. My supervisor and I had a joke about the move, saying that it's a self-contained apartment.


I've got my own king-size bed, a TV and a robotic massager. Hmmm...


Here's my workstation, where I can check e-mails and surf the net, right next to the bed.


And I've even got a sun roof, and a hanging line for clothes.


My SMA experimental set-up and computer is also right underneath the sun roof.


Oh yeah, no one's supposed to use my robotic massager without my authorisation :)

The robotic arm is actually a WAM, a 4 Degree-of-Freedom Whole-Arm-Manipulator. The WAM arm is a highly dexterous backdrivable manipulator, built to outperform today's conventional robots by offering extraordinary dexterity, fast dynamics, high bandwidth, zero backlash, and near-zero friction. Currently no one's using the robotic manipulator for research, as there is no longer an official robotics group in our research school. But I think others from the Dept. of Engineering might want to use it for research purposes, so it will have to be moved to the other building. Once that's done, the room may be specially for our SMA research.