Welcome to the Valero Lab!
Our laboratory is dedicated to understanding the biomechanics, neuromuscular control, and clinical rehabilitation of human mobility, with an emphasis on translation to robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Towards this end, we employ a synergy of experimental and theoretical techniques. Our diverse experimental arsenal ranges from physiological recordings, computational models, machine learning, and neuromorphic computing. These procedures in turn inform theoretical work and devices to restore sensorimotor function for rehabilitation, and create neuro-inspired robots, circuits, and algorithms.
Book cover of Fundamentals of Neuromechanics by Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas The cover image of Nature Machine Intelligence from March 2019 that shows a robotic tendon-driven limb with a caption that reads, 'Walk this way.'
The cover image of the Journal of Physiology from July 2021 that shows a rendering of an arm turning a crank. Rendering of a motoneuron in the spinal cord which activates your muscles, image credit: Jarrod Chatham A cartoon image of a robotic dog looking into a mirror. The mirror's reflection shows a golden retriever dog looking back at the robot dog.

Francisco Valero-Cuevas Named Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors

Francisco Valero-Cuevas added to Science Advisory Council for the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance

Valero-Cuevas FJ, Erwin A. Bio-robots step towards brain–body co-adaptation. Nature Machine Intelligence, 2022

General to Particular Algorithm (G2P)
Companion website to Nature Machine Intelligence Paper


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Ronald Tutor Hall, RTH-421
3710 S. McClintock Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2905, USA
(213) 740-4219 ; Fax: (213) 821-5696