Congratulations to Jono Jenkens and Truman Gundersen for presenting their master’s project presentations (on AR display design for robot-mediated rehabilitation and IMU-based assistive robot control, respectively). Congratulations likewise to Maria Herrera and Emma Ferran for presenting their contributions to our latest paper on sensor-location-agnostic sonomyographic control as part of the University of Utah’s Spring 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium!

PI Hallock has been admitted to the Vice President’s Clinical and Translational (VPCAT) Research Scholars Program.

The HRELab had a great conference debut last week in Chicago at RehabWeek and the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). Check out our (now uploaded) presentation materials, including our first pilot study on our new upper-limb rehabilitation robot platform and late-breaking work on sonomyography, augmented reality, high-dimensional assistive device control, and synergy analysis.

PI Hallock and Carson Wynn received a Research Incentive Seed Grant through the University of Utah Research Foundation to develop A Robotic Platform and Scaffolded Learning Method for High-Degree-Of-Freedom Assistive Device Control, the lab’s first funded grant!

Come find the HRELab this week in Chicago at RehabWeek and the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). We’ll be presenting our first pilot study on our new upper-limb rehabilitation robot platform — and debuting the associated OpenRobotRehab project — as well as presenting 4 (!) late-breaking results posters on sonomyography, augmented reality, high-dimensional assistive device control, and synergy analysis. Hope to see you there!