On Monday August 23, 2010 lab member Mark Micire gave his doctorate defense for his multi-robot command and control interface. Since then it has garnered some online press and 50,000+ views on YouTube. The links for the YouTube video, defense slideshow slides, full thesis defense video, and online press are below.

Doctorate defense media:

Thesis Defense full video: http://vimeo.com/14543098

"Multi-Robot Control" YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSOziHgQedA

Slideshow slides: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~mmicire/defense/

Online press:

DIY Drones: diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/interesting-presentation

Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/28/multi-robot-command-center-built-around-microsoft-surface-video/

Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5622589/use-this-snazzy-multitouch-interface-to-control-your-robot-army

Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/5623341/how-the-strategy-games-of-the-future-should-work

Make: Online: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/multitouch_robot_swarm_controller.html

Microsoft Robotics Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msroboticsstudio/archive/2010/08/25/microsoft-surface-meets-microsoft-robotics-developer-studio-at-u-mass-lowell.aspx

Microsoft Surface Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/surface/archive/2010/08/23/live-presentation-robot-command-and-control-on-surface.aspx

Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-08/new-interface-can-control-robot-swarms-touchscreen

Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/08/26/2354240/Robot-Swarm-Control-On-Microsofts-Surface

Wired: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/video-command-and-control-robots-with-microsoft-surface/