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IRG Paper Selected for Best Enabling Technology Award at HRI 2015
A paper presented by the Interactive Robotics Group at the International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) in Portland, Oregon was awarded the Best Enabling Technology Award! The paper, entitled “Efficient Model Learning from Joint-Action Demonstrations for Human-Robot…
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IRG will be presenting at HRI 2015, Portland, USA
Several members of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting their work at the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) in Portland, Oregon, USA next week! Vaibhav Unhelkar will be presenting his HRI…
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IRG will be presenting at AAAI 2015, Austin, USA
Three members of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting their work at the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) in Austin, USA on Tuesday, January 27th and and Thursday, January 29th! Chongjie Zhang…
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“Computers that teach by example,” IRG Research Featured on MIT’s Homepage
Research by IRG member Been Kim is featured as today’s MIT News Spotlight on the MIT homepage! The article, titled “Computers that teach by example,” can be read at the following link:
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“A day in the life of Robotina”. NSF article about our research in human-robot collaboration
What might daily life be like for a research robot that’s training to work closely with humans? Robotina is a sophisticated research robot. Specifically, it’s a Willow Garage PR2, designed to work with people. But…
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IRG member selected as finalist for the 2014 Human Factors Prize
A member of the Interactive Robotics Group was selected as a finalist for the 2014 Human Factors Prize! Przemyslaw “Pem” Lasota will be presenting his paper entitled “Analyzing the Effects of Human-Aware Motion Planning on…
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How Human-Robot Teamwork Will Upend Manufacturing
Sometime in the next couple of years, if everything goes to plan, workers at BMW’s manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, will be introduced to an unusual new teammate—a robot arm that will roll around……
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Our research on robots around the factory floor has been highlighted in “Meet Baxter, your new robotic co-worker”
Our research on a mobile robotic assistant for the factory floor and prediction of human motion has been highlighted on “Meet Baxter, your new robotic co-worker” Read the full story at http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0927/Meet-Baxter-your-new-robotic-co-worker “… Automotive…
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IRG will be presenting at SMC 2014, San Diego, USA
A member of the Interactive Robotics Group will be presenting his work at the Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) in San Diego, USA on Wednesday, October 8th! Joseph Kim will be presenting his…
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IRG Director, Dr. Julie Shah, named one of the world’s “Top 35 innovators under 35”
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…
