Spring inside to what's been happening around Michigan Robotics, including: • making robot tour guides more engaging • measuring multitasking with robot assistance • a day in the life of an Engineering student In our latest newsletter, catch up with recent research, videos, and more! Read: https://lnkd.in/gbdpvAXs
University of Michigan Robotics Department
Higher Education
Ann Arbor, MI 12,110 followers
Work together. Create smart machines. Serve Society
About us
The University of Michigan Robotics Department is the first among top-ten engineering schools, dedicated to advancing how robots sense, reason, act and work with humans. With undergraduate and graduate programs, we train students not only with the knowledge to create smart machines, but with a core set of values that will enable our community to create positive impact on society and improve the quality of people's lives. Our research focuses include: Artificial Intelligence Autonomous Vehicles Deep Learning Human-robot Interaction Legged Robots Manufacturing Motion Planning Rehabilitation Perception & Manipulation Teams & Swarms SLAM Safe Autonomy
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https://robotics.umich.edu
External link for University of Michigan Robotics Department
- Industry
- Higher Education
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 2022
- Specialties
- robotics, higher education, robots, and engineering
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2505 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109, US
Employees at University of Michigan Robotics Department
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University of Michigan Robotics Department reposted this
Congrats to Andrew Stratton, 1st-year PhD student in my lab at the University of Michigan Robotics Department, for winning the best-paper award at the Workshop on Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation (https://lnkd.in/gD9aaqPj) at #RSS2024! Our work, joint with Kris Hauser, contributes a step towards understanding the factors underlying the inherent complexity of a social navigation scenario. Paper: https://lnkd.in/gfiqwzYt Code: https://lnkd.in/gAJZzAmU
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Congratulations to Professor Kira Barton on being elected to Fellow of ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)! Barton has made exceptional contributions to research and development in manufacturing and in education. From theory to practice, Barton has advanced: • smart manufacturing • robotics • intelligent controls. Her research innovations in modeling, control, and automation have improved diverse manufacturing processes, in particular high-resolution 3D printing. Her development of extensible and reusable digital twin frameworks has demonstrated real-time monitoring, analysis, and decision making. Barton’s research has demonstrated provable performance improvements in robotic and smart manufacturing systems and has pushed the entire research field forward. Her dedication to teaching, mentoring, and outreach has made a lasting mark on students. Get an overview of Barton's research: https://lnkd.in/djMNQj-9
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University of Michigan Robotics Department reposted this
Excited to share HOUND, our new platform from the https://mushr.io ecosystem at #RSS2024. HOUND comes with open-source code, build instructions, and datasets to democratize research on off-road navigation. Fantastic work led by Sidharth Talia.
Happy to share that we'll be presenting one of our recent works, HOUND: an open-source, low-cost research platform for high-speed off-road driving that makes off-road autonomy more accessible to researchers. Paper: https://lnkd.in/gBP5q383 Website: https://lnkd.in/gicBxWCN #Robotics #RSS2024 HOUND comes with an autonomy stack geared towards aggressive offroad autonomy, giving users a real-world, open-source baseline so that YOU can focus on fundamental problems rather than needing to engineer the entire system from the ground up. #ROS HOUND is integrated with BeamNG, a state-of-the-art driving simulator. We use it in our work for simulated experiments, but in general, the integration with the simulator allows for faster development cycles #Simulation #BeamNG We deployed it in the real world on four different terrains, for multiple days, spanning 50 km, with no repairs. We also open-source the dataset collected over the 50 kilometers (available through our website: https://lnkd.in/gicBxWCN). #RealRobot Key insight: off-road vehicles need expensive ruggedization to survive rollovers; let us prevent most rollovers through software to reduce the extent of ruggedization, and thus reduce cost. We will be demonstrating HOUND at #RSS2024, come find us in van Hasseltzaal on July 16th! Many thanks to my collaborators and advisor! Matthew Schmittle, Sasha Alexander Lambert, Alex Spitzer, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Siddhartha Srinivasa.
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Concerned about security robots? Security robots are becoming more common in public and private spaces, and concerns about public acceptance are increasing. Recent studies indicate that both human gender and the perceived gender of robots may influence this acceptance. A literature review by Xin Ye, Lionel Robert, and Samia Bhatt of University of Michigan - School of Information found mixed evidence on whether gender affects interactions with security robots. It is an Association for Information Systems AMCIS 2024 Best Paper nominee: https://lnkd.in/gWMxDDSs
Gender and Security Robot Interactions: A Brief Review and Critique
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The instructors of this Robotic Mechanisms course earned the University of Michigan College of Engineering ADUE Teaching Award! Congrats to the ENGR 100.850 team: Derrick Yeo Kelly Bowker Nabilah Khachab & all the IAs! Read: https://lnkd.in/eBBiv-iJ
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The bionic leg with plans freely available for researchers to build gets a boost. A new $1M National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will help build out the ecosystem for the Open-Source Leg–a robotic lower-limb prosthesis. “This grant is a key step toward engaging the wider research community–developing the infrastructure for an open-source project is challenging both to fund and create, and we’re very thankful for the continued NSF POSE award,” said Elliott Rouse, professor of robotics and mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. “Inspired by how the Linux Foundation democratized computing and sparked countless innovations, we want to democratize access to robotics research on a broader scale, fostering breakthroughs that can transform lives," adds Senthur Ayyappan, research engineer. Read: https://lnkd.in/gpCBGmSN
Building an ecosystem for the Open-Source Leg
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University of Michigan Robotics Department reposted this
Awesome talk today by Dr. Robert Gregg at the University of Toronto Robotics Institute on robotic prosthetics and exoskeletons 🦾 Talk recording: https://lnkd.in/gW338EPM University of Michigan Robotics Department University of Toronto Engineering #robotics
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University of Michigan Robotics Department reposted this
“My advice for grad students at conferences is to have fun and enjoy their time. Conferences can be very large with thousands of attendees and multiple simultaneous sessions, so pay attention to the speakers and sessions you are interested in. You can’t fit everything in, and sometimes the most reward can come from a casual coffee conversation during a break from the conference. One of my favorite parts of conferences is meeting new people and catching up with former colleagues. In academia we have an amazing opportunity to connect with brilliant people, and you never know who you might cross paths with again in the future.” —Joey Wilson, Rackham Predoctoral Fellow, and University of Michigan Robotics Department Ph.D. student. Learn more about Joey’s research: myumi.ch/3Q9Zw What is your advice to first-time conference attendees? Tell us in the comments or email us at rack.social@umich.edu. #UMich #GradSchool #WeAreRackham Image description: Joey Wilson at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in London, UK. There, he presented two papers on mapping for autonomous robots. ALT: Person wearing glasses and a conference badge smiles in front of a banner reading "ICRA London 2023 - Exhibition Hall" decorated with graphic designs of a robotic hand.
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New faculty are key components to building our robotics program. This latest cohort are some pretty exceptional roboticists and collaborators. We're happy to have the following faculty join us over the next year as we define the discipline to meet the emerging needs of society and make robotics an inclusive field for aspiring experts. • Bernadette Bucher, Assistant Professor starting this fall • Steven Ceron, Assistant Professor starting January 2025 • Xiaoxiao Du, Lecturer starting this fall • Yulun Tian, Assistant Professor starting Fall 2025 Read more about each: https://lnkd.in/gjTs3brH
New faculty joining Michigan Robotics
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