Michigan Robotics
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Work Together. Create Smart Machines. Serve Society. 🤖 The University of Michigan Robotics Department.
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined August 2017
A summary of what's been happening the last few months around Michigan Robotics in our latest substack newsletter. Read (and subscribe to not miss the next one):
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RT @_JasonCorso_: 🚑 🔥 🚑 Bridging Gaps via AI Upskilling in Rural Health Care 🚑 🔥 🚑 New Major Project Alert! Rural healthcare lags behind…
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What if higher frame rate didn't mean lower resolution? In medical imaging, this could be incredibly useful. Dr. Mark Draelos and his team were able to improve frame rate by 40% with no drop in resolution. Read:
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“We want to bring the hospital to the house, or to the church parking lot—whether that’s in Michigan’s UP or in the middle of Indiana—where the nearest medical center that performs the care the patient needs might be two hours away,” said @_JasonCorso_.
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RT @fluentrobotics: Are we truly testing the limits of our social robot navigation algorithms? In our new IEEE RA-L paper, we argue that to…
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RT @p_alvesoliveira: it was a pleasure talking with @talkingrobotics 💛 in this interview, i share how I went from #Psychology to #Robotics,…
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Congratulations to Anouck Girard, the next Chair of Aerospace Engineering at @ERAU_Daytona! We'll miss Professor Girard greatly, but are excited to see her success at one of the top aerospace engineering schools.
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Congrats to Tribhi Kathuria on a successful PhD defense! The defense explains how robots can conduct themselves in dynamic human-centric scenarios, through behavior and motion planning... including using a museum tour guide robot as a test case.
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RT @lhcubillosg: The recording for my PhD defense is available here, for those interested! Had an amazing time @UMRobotics
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Brain-machine interfaces: @lhcubillosg defended his PhD on how humans learn new motor skills and how that might lead to better assistive tech. "Understanding Motor Control for Assistive Technologies: From Biomechanics to Brain-Machine Interfaces" here:
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Four-legged robots helping at Purina: Hanna Chapin recently graduated with a master's degree in robotics. Hear how working alongside industry sponsors provided opportunities to see real-world implementations of her research.
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RT @ARVOtvst: New in the New Frontiers in Optical Coherence Tomography Issue Anthony Kuo et al. review New Directi…
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RT @mavrojean: My invited AI Magazine article from the @RealAAAI New Faculty Highlights is online! I highlight techniques and experimental…
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RT @lionelrobertjr: Ever wonder how effective are human-robot trust repairs? The answer might surprise you. Check out "Repairing Trust in R…
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A big congrats to @JustinTzuYuan for defending a PhD last month: The work explores the incorporation of symmetric structures to develop efficient and generalizable perception algorithms for robotics. Watch:
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RT @p_alvesoliveira: Robot Studio just launched its website: ❤️ Robot Studio is a multi-disciplinary research lab…
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RT @lionelrobertjr: Do researchers need physical robots for valid results, or can alternatives (virtual reality, screen presentation, text…
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RT @GhaffariMaani: Happy 2025! May the robots finally get smarter and start helping humans. Robot trained to skateboard by @uint8_Lau and…
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RT @_JasonCorso_: 👣 🔥 👣 Exploring the Path to Safe, Cooperative AI 👣 🔥 👣 Research Seminar Video Alert Curious Embeddings, Hazy Oracles, an…
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Flying objects that take off like drones and fly like planes? What a national moment for Akshay Mathur to defend a PhD on "The QuadPlane small Uncrewed Aircraft System." Watch the defense:
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RT @GhaffariMaani: I turned my MIT talk into a podcast using NotebookLM. It's engaging and reasonably accurate. I listened for the whole 20…
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