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 […]
MEAM Seminar: “Towards Manipulation of Large Objects by Robotic Edge Rolling with Quori, an Affordable Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot”
Hardware platforms for socially interactive robotics can be limited by cost or lack of functionality. In this talk I will present the overall system—design, hardware, and software—for Quori, a novel, […]
May 2021 Robotics Master’s Thesis Presentations
9:30am – Welcome from Ani Hsieh 9:35am – Weiyu Du “Learning Human Affordance in the Wild” Advised by: Jianbo Shi 9:55am – Jie Min “Instance-aware imagesuper-resolution” Advised by: Jianbo Shi […]
Spring 2021 GRASP Seminar: “Propelling Robot Manipulation of Unknown Objects using Learned Object Centric Models”
Abstract: There is a growing interest in using data-driven methods to scale up manipulation capabilities of robots for handling a large variety of objects. Many of these methods are oblivious […]