Researcher

Samuel Min Ting Cheong is currently a Research Engineer at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R). He graduated from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2018, specialising in robot control systems. In 2018, Cheong and Keng Peng Tee developed a tool cognition framework which allows robots to recognise an object as a potential tool for performing a task. In 2019, he became a part of the Pholus project research team that was also collaborating with Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) Italy. The team has since contributed to various research areas including the hybrid wheeled-legged quadrupedal robot and a supervised autonomy framework for remote teleoperation. Together with the I2R family, he is currently developing more applications for robots, and pushing the boundary of research for quadruped mobile manipulator robots.
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