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Joshua Elsdon

I am a third year PhD candidate researching ways to automate the care of skin diseases. I have devised a number of handheld dispensing systems and I am working on evaluating them. Other streams of work include: extending Simultaneous Location and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms to work with the human body as the 'environment'; designing hardware to achieve positioning in the locality of a human body in real time such that medicines can be placed accurately. 

In my free time I have been a keen organiser and participant of the Imperial College Robotics Society (ICRS), where I have developed an expertise in rapid prototyping of robotic systems. This has led me to build robotic systems for a wide range of uses, from laboratory automation to art instillations. Click here to see the robotics I do when on break from robotics.