Wednesday 15 May 2013
Upcoming Talk at NERVE Center: Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics
Rodney Brooks of Rethink Robotics will be speaking at the NERVE Center on Wednesday, May 29, 2013. The talk is titled Why It Is Hard To Get Robotics Startups Funded; the abstract is below:
"Academics who want to start a...
Sunday 05 May 2013
UMass Lowell Robotics Lab at IEEE TePRA Conference 2013
At this year's IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA) several Robotics Lab members presented papers during the conference on April 22 - 23, 2013. Robotics Lab alum Mark Micire was a...
Tuesday 30 April 2013
Botball 2013 New England Regional Tournament and 11th Annual Botfest Exhibition
This year's Botball New England Regional Tournament is this Saturday, May 4th, 2013 at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The scenario for the 2013 competition is a "Mars Sample Return" mission, in which competing...
Monday 01 April 2013
Holly Yanco named in Mass High Tech's Women to Watch 2013
Founder of the Robotics Lab, Holly Yanco, has been named one of Mass High Tech's Women to Watch for 2013. This annual program recognizes women in tech and life sciences "who are thought leaders in their field and shaping the...
Monday 25 March 2013
HRI 2013 Best Paper Nomination: Impact of Robot Failures and Feedback on Real-Time Trust
Our paper, Impact of Robot Failures and Feedback on Real-Time Trust, co-authored by Munjal Desai, Poornima Kaniarasu, Mikhail Medvedev, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco, was nominated as one of the best four papers at this...
