RI Seminar
Mechanical Manipulation and Characterization of Biological Cells: A MEMS and Micro-Nanorobotics Approach
Event Location: NSH 1305Bio: Yu Sun is an associate professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with joint appointments in the Inst. of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto (UofT). He is a McLean Senior Fellow at UofT and the Canada Research [...]
Towards Simulation-Based Computational Synthesis of Robot Behaviors and Structures
Event Location: 1305 Newell-Simon HallBio: Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also director of the Maryland Robotics Center. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was a Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute at [...]
Robots, Slime, Propane, and Other Ways to Make Strange Musical Instruments
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the Founder and Director of LEMUR. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; a Diploma in Music Synthesis (Magna Cum Laude) from Berklee College of Music; and an MS in Computer Science from New York University. [...]
Robotics: Pathways to Transformative Research
Bio: Prof. Paul Oh is the Associate Department Head at Drexel's Mechanical Engineering Department. He received mechanical engineering degrees from McGill (B.Eng 1989), Seoul National (M.Sc 1992), and Columbia (PhD 1999). Honors include faculty fellowships at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (2002), Naval Research Lab (2003), the NSF CAREER award (2004), the SAE Ralph Teetor Award [...]
AEGIS Automated Targeting for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Bio: Dr. Estlin is a senior member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She has over 10 years of experience in developing spacecraft autonomy software. A primary goal of these efforts is to support onboard sequencing and opportunistic science handling for future rover missions. She is currently leading the AEGIS Project, [...]
Where robots meet the brain: The intersection of robotics and neurological disorders
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Bambi Brewer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, where she teaches in the Prosthetics and Orthotics program. She received her PhD and MS from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and 2002, respectively. She [...]
Challenges for 100 milligram flight
Event Location: 1305 Newell Simon HallBio: Robert Wood is an Associate Professor in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Prof. Wood completed his M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the U. [...]
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 [...]