GRASP on Robotics: “The Importance of Pneumatic Actuation in Adaptive Robotic Devices”
Abstract: Soft pneumatic actuators have become a popular implement in modern robotic systems due to their intrinsic mechanical compliance, which affords researchers levels of robustness and adaptability that can be […]
MEAM Seminar: “Designing Robotic Systems with Collective Embodied Intelligence”
Natural swarms exhibit sophisticated colony-level behaviors with remarkable scalability and error tolerance. Their evolutionary success stems from more than just intelligent individuals, it hinges on their morphology, their physical interactions, […]
GRASP on Robotics: “Motion Planning for Autonomy: Successes and Challenges Ahead”
The past two decades have witnessed incredible advances towards the design of autonomous systems. This talk will discuss the role of motion planning in yielding solutions for an agent that […]
MEAM Seminar: “Robotics Goes Soft: Challenges and Achievements, for New Robotics Scenarios”
Largely inspired by the observation of the role of soft tissues in living organisms, the use of soft materials for building robots is recognized as one of the current challenges […]
Fall 2021 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Research Overview – Day 2
GRASP Lab faculty confirmed presentations (where appropriate their presenters)… Dr. Ani Hsieh – Welcome & Introduction Dr. Michelle Johnson (presented by Frances Sowande) Dr. Dan Koditschek (presented by Wei-Hsi Chen) Dr. […]
Fall 2021 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Research Overview – Day 1
GRASP Lab Faculty confirmed presentations (where appropriate their presenters)… Mark Yim – Welcome & Introduction Pratik Chaudhari Kostas Daniilidis (presented by Kenneth Chaney) Eric Eaton Dinesh Jayaraman Dr. Vijay Kumar (presented by Steven […]
MEAM PhD Thesis Defense: “Modular Robots Morphology Transformation and Task Execution”
Self-reconfigurable modular robots are composed of a small set of modules with uniform docking interfaces. Different from conventional robots that are custom-built and optimized for specific tasks, modular robots are […]
MEAM PhD Thesis Defense: “Design of Proprioceptive Legged Robots”
It has been twenty years since the advent of the first power-autonomous legged robots, yet they have still not yet been deployed at scale. One fundamental challenge in legged machines […]
MEAM Seminar: “A Methodology for Self-Replicating Robots from Ice”
In the late 1940s, John von Neumann first introduced the concept of self-replication as a way of furthering cellular reproduction research. By the late ‘50s and ’60s this research diverges […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “From Deployments of Elder Care Service Robots to the Design of Affordable Low-Complexity End-Effectors and Novel Manipulation Techniques”
Older adults are forming a much larger percentage of the population leading to a strain in the healthcare sector. It is expected that the population aged 65 and over in […]