Horatio Montero Hamkins

I am an interdisciplinary engineer with research experience in soft robotics, human-computer interaction, industrial engineering, and medical physics.

I’ve just finished my master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath where I developed a CNC wire bending machine and software for real-time portable art fabrication (First-Class Honours).

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Projects

	Makerspace - 2023 to 2026 I founded my university’s makerspace. website / instagram
	Wire Bending Machine for Real-Time Portable Art Fabrication - 2026 Demonstrated ephermal fabrication, characterized stick-slip friction as mechanism for wirebending, and created a surface-adaptive spiral wrapping algorithm. project page
	Resin Formulation for 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices - in progress The democratization of microfluidic technology requires machines capable of rapid fabrication of microfluidic devices. I conducted research in materials science for resin formulation.
	Portrait Drawing Robot - 2025 Created an autonomous drawing robot by developing a software pipeline that converts photos into G-code for a modified 3D printer. Used to draw 100+ portraits at the University of Bath Groups Fair. code
	AI-Marker: An Autonomous Agent for Marking Business Coursework - 2025 As part of a Business for Engineering class, designed a workflow incorporating nine separate AI agents to facilitate the autonomous marking of university coursework. project page

Research

My research spans medical physics (quality assurance of adaptive radiotherapy with 3D-printed phantoms), human-robot collaboration in welding, and personal fabrication of large-scale structures.

	Automated Design of Patient-Specific 4D-Printed Phantoms for Quality Assurance of Adaptive Radiotherapy on a 1.5T MR-Linac Horatio Hamkins, Ka Ho Tam, Angela Sobremonte, Sandeep Jogi, Eugene Koay, Comron Hassanzadeh, Paul Segars, Neelam Tyagi, Ergys Subashi 3D Printing in Medicine (under review), 2026 paper
	Extended Reality-Based Human-Robotic Collaborative Welding Systems: A Review Horatio Hamkins, Christelle Grandvallet, Frédéric Vignat The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2026 paper
	AirForce: Personal Fabrication of Large-Scale, Load-Bearing Animatronics Structures from a Single Tube Lukas Rambold, Robert Kovacs, Min Deng, Antonius Nauman, Konrad Gerlach, Horatio Hamkins, Helena Lendowski, Chiao Fang, Shohei Katakura, Conrad Lemper, Muhammad Abdullah, Patrick Baudisch Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘26), 2026 paper
	3D-Printed Multi-Contrast Phantom for Quality Assurance of Adaptive Radiotherapy Delivery in a High-Field MR-Linac Ergys Subashi, Horatio Hamkins, Samuel Hellman, Neelam Tyagi UCLA 9th MR in RT Symposium, 2023 paper

Horatio Montero Hamkins

Projects

Makerspace - 2023 to 2026

Wire Bending Machine for Real-Time Portable Art Fabrication - 2026

Resin Formulation for 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices - in progress

Portrait Drawing Robot - 2025

AI-Marker: An Autonomous Agent for Marking Business Coursework - 2025

Research

Automated Design of Patient-Specific 4D-Printed Phantoms for Quality Assurance of Adaptive Radiotherapy on a 1.5T MR-Linac

Extended Reality-Based Human-Robotic Collaborative Welding Systems: A Review

AirForce: Personal Fabrication of Large-Scale, Load-Bearing Animatronics Structures from a Single Tube

3D-Printed Multi-Contrast Phantom for Quality Assurance of Adaptive Radiotherapy Delivery in a High-Field MR-Linac