Seminar
Dynamic Rough-Terrain Robots
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Marc Raibert is President of Boston Dynamics, a company that develops some of the world's most sophisticated dynamic robots, including BigDog, Petman, Legged Squad Support System (LS3) and others. These robots combine advanced locomotion control systems with innovative mechanical designs. They are specialized for travel on rough terrain. Before [...]
Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Russell H. Taylor received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1976. He joined IBM Research in 1976, where he developed the AML robot language and managed the Automation Technology Department and (later) the Computer-Assisted Surgery Group before moving in 1995 to Johns Hopkins, where he is a [...]
Landing the Lunar X-Prize
Event Location: NSH 3305Bio: William “Red” Whittaker is the Fredkin professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He served on the National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board. Science Digest named Whittaker one of the top [...]
This Is Gutter Tech
Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Nathan Martin is CEO of Deeplocal Inc. Prior to founding Deeplocal in 2006, Nathan was a researcher and artist-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University where he led an interdisciplinary team in the development of a collaborative online mapping toolkit. As a founding member of both an art group and a touring [...]
Winning the MAGIC 2010 Autonomous Robotics Competition
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Edwin Olson is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan with research interests in robot autonomy, perception, and learning. In 2010, he led Team Michigan to first place in the MAGIC 2010 robotics competition. He received his PhD, M.Eng., and B.S. from MIT, where he was also a [...]
Nurturing Appropriate Biomedical Innovation in for Developing Countries through the use of MEDIK kits
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Jose Gomez-Marquez is the program director for the Innovations in International Health initiative at MIT. Among the projects under his technology practice at IIH is the Aerovax Drug Delivery System, a device for mass delivery of inhalable drugs and vaccines to remote populations. The rest of his IIH invention [...]