http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/ Robot news from UMass Lowell's own Robotics Lab en http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/fileadmin/rss_icon.gif http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/ Robot news from UMass Lowell's own Robotics Lab TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/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.... 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 robotics company have to adjust to a different set of metrics on what makes a good robot. VCs who are asked to fund robotics companies have a hard time evaluating what is hard and what is easy to achieve in the presented plans. Both groups have difficulty predicting whether the market will be responsive to a radically new solution. This talk lays out the issues and ways to think about all three problems. It is an optimistic look at the future of robotic start ups." The talk begins at 5:00pm, with a reception and dinner at 6:30. If you plan on attending, please register here: http://nerverodbrooks.eventbrite.com/ ]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/umass-lowell-robotics-lab-at-ieee-tepra-conference-2013/ At this year's IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications... Daniel J. Brooks, Michael Lunderville, and Holly A. Yanco. Design of a 2D Joystick for Robot Control Based on a 6 DOF Haptic Device. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, April 2013. Munjal Desai, Mikhail Medvedev, Marynel Vazquez, Sean McSheehy, Sofia Gadea-Omelchenko, Christian Bruggeman, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco. Influence of Situation Awareness on Control Allocation for Remote Robots. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, April 2013. Eric McCann, Mikhail Medvedev, Daniel J. Brooks. and Kate Saenko. “Off the Grid”: Self-Contained Landmarks for Improved Indoor Probabilistic Localization. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, April 2013. Katherine M. Tsui, Adam Norton, Daniel J. Brooks, Eric McCann, Mikhail S. Medvedev, and Holly A. Yanco. Design and Development of Two Generations of Semi-Autonomous Social Telepresence Robots. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, April 2013. For more information on TePRA 2013: http://www.ieeerobot-tepra.org/]]> Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/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... http://www.botball.org/ For more information on Botfest: http://botfest.wiki.uml.edu/ ]]> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/holly-yanco-named-in-mass-high-techs-women-to-watch-2013/ Founder of the Robotics Lab, Holly Yanco, has been named one of Mass High Tech's Women to Watch for... http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/techflash/2013/03/mass-high-tech-names-2013-women-to-watch.html]]> Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/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,... 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 years 8th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, held in Tokyo from 3-6 March 2013. ]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/nasa-rasc-al-robo-ops-2013-competition-umass-lowell-rover-hawks-video/ UMass Lowell is one of eight teams to be selected to build a robot for the 2013 NASA RASC-AL... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIlH7_d6-TA Follow the Rover Hawks blog: http://roverhawks.blogspot.com
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For more information on the NASA RASC-AL Robo-Ops 2013 Competition: http://www.nianet.org/RoboOps-2013/index.aspx]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/umass-lowell-nerve-center-grand-opening-on-february-12-2013/ The New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center will hold its grand opening... http://umassnerve.eventbrite.com/]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/artbotics-exhibit-5000-on-display-at-119-gallery-this-week/ This semester's Artbotics class recently unveiled their work at 119 Gallery in the exhibition,... 119 Gallery in the exhibition, 5,000. Each piece in the show uses ping pong balls, ranging from one to hundreds. The show opened on December 7, 2012 and will be on display until Thursday, December 13. Check out photos from it on 119 Gallery's Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151207561203505.460007.57125978504&type=1 Some videos from opening night:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf6B6j9J6Sc
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NY1GXSKTbs

More photos and videos to come!]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/umass-lowell-robotics-and-science-workshop-for-educators/ On Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 the annual Robotics and Science Workshop for educators will take...

Interact with other teachers who have already used robots

Build and program your own robot

Receive advanced instruction for experienced users

Learn about a new science offering on using sensors in the classroom

Receive information about funding opportunities

Please register by October 29, 2012 by completing the registration form at http://tinyurl.com/UML-Fall-2012. Space is limited. For more information on robotics programs at UML, please go to www.cs.uml.edu/k12.]]> Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400 http://robotics.cs.uml.edu/home/news/single-news-article/article/robotics-lab-member-jamal-grant-interns-at-hasbro/ Jamal Grant interned at Hasbro this past summer working with the Advanced Robotics group in the... Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400