Agri-food robotics
Two funded research programmes on mobile manipulators for agriculture: a vehicle for precision crop inspection and spraying, and a greenhouse platform that inspects, sprays and harvests tomatoes.
Selected work
Research robots, medical devices and competition machines, from CSRL at HMU to SVK Robotics.
Ambu Squeeze
A servo-driven device that compresses the ambu bag for patients who need emergency respiratory support, replacing the hand of the nurse or rescuer. The operator sets the breaths per minute.
With Andrianna Bouranta, John Meramveliotakis
Med Venti ventilator
A portable, fully 3D-printable mechanical ventilator, designed and built in three weeks at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Build cost of €70-80 and 48 hours of stable operation in testing.
With George Patou, Nikos Mountakis, Iakovos Giannakos
SoftER soft actuator
A spiral soft pneumatic actuator, inspired by spirals in nature, that unwinds under pressure to eject produce on sorting lines. A low-cost, easy-to-clean alternative to cylinder-paddle sorters.
With Ilias Zournatzis, Panagiotis Polygerinos
Anthropomorphic robotic hand
Reconstruction, experimental evaluation and kinematic analysis of a robotic hand: autonomous grasping, gestures on voice command, and motion equations derived with computer vision.
Supervisor John Fasoulas
Cage Wrestling robots
Remote-controlled robots that grapple in a three-minute melee. SVK Robotics fielded Scorpios at MRC 24 and designed and built the cage arena for MRC 2025.
HMU Robotics Club
A student club for building robots together: a robot bartender for Beer Festival Crete, Star Wars duels between robotic arms, a Christmas-tree decorating robot and an automatic frappé machine.