All 35 of these people are doing exciting work that could shape their fields for decades. But they’re solving problems in remarkably different ways. We consider some of them to be primarily Inventors; they’re immersed in building new technologies. Others we call Visionaries, because they’re...
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Sat, 08/16/2014
A member of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting his work at the Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) in Taipei, Taiwan this Tuesday, August 19!
Przemyslaw Lasota will be presenting his paper entitled “Toward Safe Close-...
Sat, 07/12/2014
A member of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting his work at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference in Berkeley, California this Monday, July 14!
Matthew Gombolay will be presenting his paper entitled “Decision-Making Authority...
Fri, 06/06/2014
Przemyslaw "Pem" Lasota (SM '14) - Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Pem and Professor Julie Shah are pictured on the right.
Mon, 03/24/2014
With the advent of "inherently safe" robots, industrial designers are changing their ideas about the factory of the future. Robots such as ABB's Frida and the Baxter robot from MIT spinoff Rethink Robotics are working “elbow to elbow with people," says Julie Shah, Assistant Professor in MIT's...
Thu, 03/06/2014
This is an enormously exciting time to be working in industrial robotics," MIT Professor Julie Shah told an LGO webinar audience as she shared her passion for helping robots and humans work together efficiently and safely on manufacturing lines. Shah is the Boeing Assistant Professor of...
Tue, 02/25/2014
Two members of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting their work at the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in Bielefeld, Germany this March!
Vaibhav Unhelkar will be presenting his paper entitled “...
Fri, 12/13/2013
Traditionally, robots were designed to work separately from people. That is starting to change as robots begin working alongside humans to courier medicine in hospitals and assemble complex machinery. New legged robots could soon accompany soldiers across treacherous terrain or...
Tue, 09/17/2013
It used to be too dangerous to have a person work alongside a robot. But at a South Carolina BMW plant, next-generation robots are changing that. BMW has taken a huge step toward revolutionizing the role of robots in automotive manufacturing by having a handful of robots work side-by-side with...
Mon, 06/24/2013
We have sucessfully transitioned to this new website of IRG! Thank you to the diligent work of our webmasters, Pem and Joe! Also thank you to Kris Brewer from the School of Engineering office in helping us immensely with the functionalities of the Drupal system~
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