Dr. Michael West Jr., PhD

This channel is dedicated to the research pursuits of Michael West Jr., a sixth-year PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research seeks to better control algorithms for robots involved in rehabilitation, and dexterous manipulation. He has investigated human upper-limb motor control and human hand manipulation during tool-use and physical interaction. By introducing new methods of analyzing human motor control and exploiting old methods on new experimental paradigms, his work leads to new insights on human motor control and perception.