Two UMass Lowell Robotics Lab students will present their current research at the 5th Annual New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS). Doctoral candidate, Kate Tsui, will present "'I Want That': Human-in-the-Loop Control of a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotics Arm from Interface through Grasping," the result of a 3-year collaboration with Dr. Aman Behal at the Univeristy of Central Florida. Master's student, Erin Rapacki, will present her thesis work, "The Design of an Underactuated Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm to Open Door Knobs and Handles."

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