Data and anomaly visualization
Fast detection of hemorrhagic shock
Soft manipulator control
Characterizing material degradation due to ion migration
Microcirculatory Bloodflow Analysis (MCBA)
Distributed strain sensing with notch filters
Posey: BLE-enabled motion tracking
Postoperative renal failure prediction
Physiologic state clustering in shock
Counter human trafficking
Real-time Bayesian Aggregation (RTBA)
TEG-powered, battery-free PPG sensing
Trauma Care in a Rucksack (TRACIR)
WAFFLE: Wearable bite timing for robot-assisted feeding
Hello, I am
Anthony Wertz
Roboticist, engineer, and maker.
I build real-time prediction systems for autonomous vehicles at Latitude AI. My PhD research at CMU was in soft robotics and wearable sensing.
Recent research
All research- Mar 16, 2026WAFFLE: Wearable bite timing for robot-assisted feedingBest paper at HRI '26 — a wearable system for robot-assisted feeding that reads natural cues like chewing and head movement to decide when to offer the next bite, built on custom Posey IMU hardware.
- wearable
- IMU
- assistive-robotics
- HRI
- feeding
- Oct 01, 2025Distributed strain sensing with notch filtersSoft sensor arrays using variable-frequency notch filters for spatially-distributed sensing with minimal wiring.
- soft-robotics
- sensing
- analog-circuits
- strain-sensing
- wearable
- Jun 01, 2024TEG-powered, battery-free PPG sensingBattery-free photoplethysmograph (PPG) powered by body heat captured using flexible thermoelectric generators (TEGs).
- energy-harvesting
- wearable
- PPG
- BLE
- thermoelectric
Recent posts
All posts- Oct 04, 2026KidsPlay: the software, and how to run itA home server and offline handheld players for music, audiobooks and photos, curated by a parent. Now open source.
- kidsplay
- raspberry-pi
- cm4
- gpi-case-2
- pygame
- fastapi
- self-hosting
- kids
- open-source
- Jul 02, 2026Hardware for building a media player safe for kidsNo ads, no video, no flashing lights, no infinite scroll, no unapproved content.
- raspberry-pi
- cm4
- gpi-case-2
- pygame
- linux
- kids
- diy
Let's Connect
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