RI Seminar
Koushil Sreenath
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
CMU

Nonlinear Geometric Control for Highly Dynamic Legged Locomotion and Aerial Manipulation

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Koushil Sreenath is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a courtesy Assistant Professor of Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interest lies at the intersection of highly dynamic robotics and applied nonlinear control. His work on dynamic legged locomotion on the bipedal robot MABEL was featured on The [...]

RI Seminar
Aakash Sinha
CEO & Founder of Omnipresent Robot Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Omnipresent Robotics, New Dehli, India

Robo-preneurship: Challenges and Opportunities

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: It is the first company of its kind that is making Robots for all four operational domains of Land, Air, Water and Space. This Includes Robotic Boats, mini drones, bomb disposal robots and Space robots. Bomb disposal robot developed by Omnipresent was displayed by DRDO at the Def Expo 12 (India’s [...]

RI Seminar
David Forsyth
Professor of Computer Science
University of Illinois

Understanding Pictures of Rooms and Inserting Objects into them

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: D.A. Forsyth is professor of Computer Science in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds BS and MS degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a DPhil from Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently editor in chief of IEEE TPAMI.Abstract: Vision is special, because it can be used to predict [...]

RI Seminar
Ron Alterovitz
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina

Computing Motions for Medical and Assistive Robots

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Dr. Ron Alterovitz is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He leads the Computational Robotics Research Group which investigates new algorithms to enable robots to safely and autonomously complete novel tasks in clinical and home environments. Prior to joining UNC-Chapel Hill in [...]

RI Seminar
Hod Lipson
Associate Professor
Cornell

Distilling Natural Laws from Experimental Data, from cognitive robotics to computational biology

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He directs the Creative Machines Lab, which focuses on novel ways for automatic design, fabrication and adaptation of virtual and physical machines. He has led work in areas such [...]

RI Seminar
Chieko Asakawa
IBM Fellow
IBM Research - Tokyo

Can we make our world accessible?

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Chieko Asakawa is an IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for Accessibility Research and Technology at IBM Research. Her contributions to Web accessibility include IBM Home Page Reader, one of the first voice browsers for the visually impaired, the aDesigner tool for accessibility evaluation, ai-browser for multimedia content accessibility, and then [...]

RI Seminar
Steve Collins
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University, MechE

Prosthesis and exoskeleton emulators for rapid evaluation of human response to intervention

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Steve Collins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He is director of the Experimental Biomechatronics Laboratory, organizes the CMU Bipedal Locomotion Seminar, and teaches courses on Design and Biomechatronics. Steve received his B.S. from Cornell in 2002, his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from [...]

RI Seminar
John Galeotti
Senior Project Scientist
Carnegie Mellon, RI

Biomedical Image Guidance: BIG Ideas for Improving the Tools of Medicine

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: John Galeotti received BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (2001, 2002), and MS and PhD degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University (2005, 2007). He is currently a senior project scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, as well as an adjunct assistant professor with [...]

RI Seminar
Vincent Hayward
Professor
University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France

How the mechanics of the fingertip impact the tactile and gripping function of the hand

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Vincent Hayward (Dr.-Ing., 1981 Univ. de Paris XI) was Postoctoral Fellow then Visiting Assistant Professor (1982) at Purdue University, and joined CNRS, France, as Chargé de Recherches in 1983. In 1987, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University as assistant, associate and then full professor (2006). [...]

RI Seminar
Julie A. Shah
Assistant Professor
MIT

Integrating Robots into Team-Oriented Environments

Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Julie Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Shah received her SB (2004) and SM (2006)from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and her PhD (2010) in Autonomous Systems from [...]