Dr. Machiel van der Loos

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Associate Professor Emeritus

Department of Mechanical Engineering

H.F. Machiel Van der Loos received the Ingénieur Mécanicien degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (1979), and an Engineer’s Degree (1984) and Ph.D. (1992) from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering, all in robot interface design. After being principal investigator in assistive and therapy robotics at the Rehabilitation R&D Center of the Palo Alto VA in California for 15 years, he came to the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at UBC Vancouver, where he was Associate Professor until 2023, conducting research in human-robot interaction and roboethics and teaching engineering design. He is now an Emeritus member of the department.

  • The International Conference on Engineering Design 2017 (ICED17)

    August 21-25, 2017

  • https://youtu.be/4s6ij2BIy1g

Publications

  • M. Sakr, J. Zhang, H.F.M. Van der Loos, D. Kulić, E. Croft. Consistency Matters: Defining Demonstration Data Quality Metrics in Robot Learning from Demonstration. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 15(2), pp. 1 – 31.
    2025
  • M. Sakr, Z. Zhang, B. Li, H. Zhang, H.F.M. Van der Loos, D. Kulić, E. Croft, How can everyday users efficiently teach robots by demonstration? ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 14(4), pp.1-22, 2025.
    2024
  • M. Sakr, J. Lee, H.F.M. Van der Loos, D. Kulić, E. Croft, Quantifying demonstration quality for robot learning and generalization, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 9659-9666, Oct. 2022.
    2022
  • M. Khalili, C. Jonathan, N. Hocking, H.F.M. Van der Loos, B. Mortenson, J.F. Borisoff. Perception of autonomy among people who use wheeled mobility assistive devices: dependence on the type of wheeled assistive technology. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2021 Jun 24;1–9.
    2021