Rate My Professor Denny Oetomo

Oetomo's research centers on robotics, with particular emphasis on physical human-robot interaction, human-robot collaboration, assistive robotics, and rehabilitation technologies. His projects include the development of intelligent load-carrying passive exoskeletons for gait assistance and rehabilitation, task-centric synthesis for wearable assistive robots, and bionic hand redesigns to enhance dexterity for amputees. Notable publications encompass 'A lower-back focused motion capture and electromyography dataset for human movement analysis' published in Scientific Data in 2025, 'Technology-assisted assessment of spasticity: a systematic review' in 2022, and contributions to singularity robust algorithms in serial manipulators. With over 3,500 citations across more than 270 publications documented on platforms like Google Scholar and ResearchGate, his work has advanced fields like rehabilitation robotics and human-machine interaction. In recognition of his supervision, he received the 2014 Norman Curry Award for leading the University of Melbourne Formula SAE team. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and actively supervises student teams that have won competitions such as the top prize at HRI24 for a robot assistant.