Katrina Lo Surdo
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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About
Katrina Lo Surdo is a robotics researcher at CSIRO Data61 whose work focuses on heterogeneous multi-robot systems, autonomous exploration, and soft robotics. She made major contributions to Team CSIRO Data61’s success in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, where her team tied for the top score by deploying teams of ground and aerial robots with unified perception and autonomy to explore dangerous, unstructured underground environments—a feat documented in her most-cited paper (97 citations). Her research also advances soft robotic mechanisms, as demonstrated by her work on “Jammkle,” a 3D-printed multi-material tendon using fibre jamming to create a stiffness-tunable robotic ankle (11 citations). Beyond these technical achievements, Lo Surdo’s work has been recognized for balancing autonomy with human interaction, enabling robust performance in real-world subterranean missions. With over 120 combined citations across her key publications, she is shaping the future of field robotics and soft actuation, offering practical solutions for disaster response, infrastructure inspection, and autonomous exploration.
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