Health technology: wearable sensing, assistive devices and rehabilitation tools, built and tested with students.
In collaboration with PLOT
We study humanoid robots that see, understand spoken requests and act safely around people, with the goal of supporting care units and the staff who run them.
In collaboration with Kennesaw State University
Our sensing replaces people with silhouettes as images are captured, keeping motion and posture while personal details stay on the device.
In collaboration with Kennesaw State University
Since 2021 student teams have taken an ordinary powered wheelchair and kept teaching it new skills: driving itself down hallways, then outdoors, then carrying new sensors, with each class handing the platform to the next. Today we are exploring shared control, where the chair and its user decide together.
In collaboration with Kennesaw State University
Leg exoskeletons that attach to a wheelchair, so people can exercise their legs while seated.
In collaboration with Kennesaw State University
Wearable sensors that recognize stress, fatigue and sleep-related risk.
At Voicu Lab
A compact sensing unit with cameras, depth and microphones that processes data on the device.
In collaboration with Kennesaw State University
Low-cost robotic hands and wrist-worn robotic fingers for people with limited hand function.
In collaboration with Kennesaw State University
Our bioprinter builds soft scaffolds layer by layer, a step toward engineered tissue.
In progress
A powered wheelchair combined with a wearable arm-support mechanism, exploring shared control for mobility and in-chair activity.
In progress
Low-cost robotic hands and wrist-worn robotic fingers to assist people with limited hand function.
Oct 2026 · Podcast
Dr. Voicu joins host Pamela Isom to talk about homes with sensing and intelligence built into the walls, processing on the device versus in the cloud and what that means for privacy, assistive robotics for aging, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and myths about sentient machines. Season 3, episode 69 (37 min).
Oct 2026 · In the news
First-year student Daksh Garg, advised by Dr. Voicu in the First-Year Scholars Program, is building a 3D-printed robotic hand that measures heart rate, blood oxygen and skin conductance. The work grew from an Office of Research seed grant titled Healing Hands.
Jun 2026 · Article
A blog post by Dr. Voicu on today's AI wellness sensing at home, how it could turn into pressure to always perform, and the privacy safeguards it needs.
Apr 2026 · Press
The paper's story on the new Shore Innovation Center shows Dr. Voicu demonstrating an automated wheelchair project.
Apr 2026 · Press
A first look inside the new Shore Innovation Center.
Mar 2026 · Lab update
The first end-to-end demo ran the privacy-first sensing loop on de-identified captures, across fall detection, aging in place, gait analysis and thermal imaging.
Cough Detection for Smart-Home Health Monitoring: Room-Scale Edge Acoustic Sensing with Mel-Spectrogram Classification
Aging in Place: Doorway Activity Detection and Contextual Alerting for Dementia Wandering Risk