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Paul Oh
Associate Department Head, Mechanical Engineering
Drexel 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 [...]

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Tara Estlin
Senior Member, Artificial Intelligence Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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, [...]

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Bambi Brewer
Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology
University of Pittsburgh

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 [...]

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Robert Wood
Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

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. [...]

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Marc Raibert
President
Boston Dynamics

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 [...]

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Russell H. Taylor
Professor, Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University

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 [...]

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Nathan Martin
CEO
Deeplocal

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 [...]

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Edwin Olson
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan

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 [...]

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Jose Gomez-Marquez
Program Director, Innovations in International Health Initiative
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 [...]