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  • “Enabling human-robot rescue teams,” IRG Research Featured on MIT’s Homepage

    Wed, 02/17/2016

    Research by IRG member Vaibhav Unhelkar is featured as today’s MIT News Spotlight on the MIT homepage! The article, titled “Enabling human-robot rescue teams,” can be read at the following link:  

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  • IRG presenting at AIAA SciTech 2016

    Thu, 01/07/2016

    A member of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting his work at the AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition (AIAA SciTech) in San Diego, California this week! Giancarlo F. Sturla, an undergraduate member…

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  • “Engineering Intelligent Machine Teammates” : Prof. Julie Shah at TEDx Cambridge

    Tue, 10/27/2015

    Watch Prof. Julie Shah discuss how she’s creating artificial intelligence algorithms that learn from observations of human teamwork behavior at TEDx Cambridge 2015. Her aim is to achieve full human potential through smart machines that…

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  • “Smarter, Smaller, Safer Robots”

    Tue, 10/27/2015

    Research from IRG is featured in the November 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review. To read the full article titled “Smarter, Smaller, Safer Robots,” click here. To learn more about our group’s research on human robot…

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  • IRG will be presenting at IROS 2015, Hamburg, Germany

    Wed, 09/30/2015

    A member of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting his work at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Hamburg, Germany this week! Przemyslaw “Pem” Lasota will be presenting his paper…

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  • “MIT Focuses on Human-Robot Interaction”

    Thu, 09/03/2015

    Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are studying how robots and humans can work closer together on assembly lines. The Interactive Robotics Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is…

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  • IRG will be presenting at RSS 2015, Rome, Italy

    Sun, 07/12/2015

    A member of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting her work at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference in Rome, Italy this Thursday, July 16! Ramya Ramakrishnan will be giving a spotlight talk and…

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  • 2015 IRG Open House

    Fri, 02/20/2015

    We held our 2015 IRG Open House on Friday, February 20th! We had a great turnout, thank you to everyone who came out to learn about our research and see our newest demos!

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  • IRG will be presenting at ICRA 2015, Seattle, USA

    Thu, 05/21/2015

    Two members of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting their work at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Seattle, Washington, USA next week! Vaibhav Unhelkar will be presenting his paper entitled…

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  • “Worker Robots That Can ‘Think’ on Their Feet.” NSF article and video about our research.

    Mon, 03/02/2015

    MIT roboticists are developing smart assembly line robots that will learn from experience working alongside humans. Assembly line workers won’t be swapping stories with their robotic counterparts any time soon, but future robots will be more…

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