Congratulations to PhD student Cyndia Cao for winning the ASCE Earth & Space Conference 2021 (https://www.earthspaceconference.org/) Best Student Paper Competition. She presented her work during one of the plenary speaker sessions of the conference and was selected by a panel of judges. The work is entitled “Dynamic Analysis of Gyroscopic Force Redistribution for a Wheeled […]
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Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) presentations: Juan Romero and Sebastian Lee
Congratulations to PhD students Juan Romero and Sebastian Lee for presenting their work at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology regarding their work studying interaction forces of butterflyfish and squirrels, respectively. Romero, JA; Wainwright, P; Stuart, H (2021) “Experimentally decoding the forces of butterflyfish on anchored prey.” INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE […]
Open source Ocean One hand now published!
The Ocean One hand is now open-source! Step-by-step directions for this underactuated robotic hand are available for fabrication and modification: https://github.com/embodied-dexterity/Open-Source-Ocean-One-Hand
Congratulations to Juan Romero (NSF GRFP) and Wilson Torres (McMurtry Fellow, Outstanding GSI) on their recent awards
EDG graduate students were awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Juan Romero) and the 2020 John and Janet McMurtry Fellowship (Wilson Torres). These awards are funding these students to conduct cutting edge research in remote robotic manipulation and assistive hand technologies. In addition, Wilson was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) award for […]
New article available online: Hands in the Real World
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2019.00147/full?utm_source=S-TWT&utm_medium=SNET&utm_campaign=ECO_FROBT_XXXXXXXX_auto-dlvrit
Recent meetings: Bioinspired Geotechnics, OCEANS, HUMANOIDS, IROS, SICB
Laura Treers presented a poster at the NSF Bioinspired Geotechnics Workshop in Monterrey, California. (May 2019) Hannah Stuart presented work at OCEANS 2019 in Marseilles, France. (June 2019) Hannah Stuart presented work at HUMANOIDS 2019 in Toronto, Canada. (October 2019) Hannah Stuart hosted two workshops (Automation in Construction, Bioinspired Soft Marine Robots) and presented work […]
Undergraduate researchers, strong showing at poster presentations
Undergraduate researchers Daniel Santos and Ethan Chung recently presented posters about their EDG research activities at the Undergraduate Research Symposium and Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow showcase, respectively. Great work!
Prof. Stuart comments on recent jellyfish grasper in article for kids
Read more at: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/robot-catches-jellyfish-gentle-hug
Prof. Vincent Creuze of LIRMM seminar talk
Collaborator Associate Professor Vincent Creuze visited EDG, and gave a seminar talk on Thursday July 25, 2019 entitled “Underwater Robotics: Manipulation and Sensing for Marine Biology and Underwater Archaeology.” ABSTRACT Of the two million shipwrecks that dot the seas of the world, many lie beyond scuba diving limits. These deep-water wrecks are remarkably well preserved […]
Automation in Construction full day workshop on Nov. 8 at IROS 2019, Macau, China
Consider joining the workshop hosted by EDG for IROS on the topic of Automation in Construction: Artificial Intelligence and Robots for the Realization of Smart Buildings. Speakers will present relevant topics in the morning, then collaborators at HKUST are arranging a panel of industrial and facility experts for an afternoon panel discussion on collaborating with […]