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“Yes, I heard you, but how are you feeling?”: Biomimetic Sensors and Actuators for Medical Diagnostics

In this talk, Professor Bob Reuben will focus on two aspects of his research in diagnostic engineering; (1) listening to and (2) feeling (palpating) structures to assess their condition. Most of Bob’s recent work is applied to biomedical engineering. As well as the underlying research in materials engineering and medical device manufacture,  he will describe two examples of near-commercial application of (1) acoustic emission sensing and (2) dynamic instrumented palpation.  

Bob Reuben is Professor Emeritus in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) at Heriot-Watt University. His research interests are very broad but are largely in the application of experimental mechanics and mechanics of materials to various engineering problems. Biomedical applications have formed a growing proportion of recent work, building on experience in micromechanics and in engineering diagnostics. He is author or co-author of around 400 publications, in journals, books and conference proceedings [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3686-2131] and has been Pl or Co-I on around £25M of research contracts from the EU, EPSRC and industrial funders. He is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of the University Spin-out Company IntelliPalpDx [www.intellipalp.com] dedicated to the commercialization of a device for early-stage detection pf prostate cancer.