The Michigan Robotics Newsletter, Fall 2019
Welcome to ISSUE 3 of the Michigan Robotics Newsletter, an easy to skim summary of what's happening in the University of Michigan Robotics Institute community.
Before diving in, please read a note from Jessy Grizzle, Director.
Research
Lionel Robert, X. Jessie Yang, Dawn Tilbury and others published research on trust and communication between car and driver in autonomous vehicles.
Jason Corso and Brent Griffin published research on improving object tracking throughout a video with BubbleNets.
Songseok You and Lionel Robert published research on how team performance is affected by emotional attachment with robot teammates.
Congratulations
New Robotics affiliate members: Xiaoxiao Du and Talia Moore!
Jason Corso's startup, Voxel51, launched their flagship software utilizing computer vision for video.
Matthew Johnson-Roberson and Ram Vasudevan launched their startup, RefractionAI, for last-mile logistics.
A paper by Xiangru Xu and Jessy Grizzle, building off work of Necmiye Ozay, on correctness guarantees for lane keeping and adaptive cruise control won an IEEE Best New Application Award.
Michigan Mars Rover had their best finish ever at the international University Rover Competition.
STARX took first place in the second-ever Applied Collegiate Exoskeleton Competition.
The Michigan Robotics intramural basketball team won the Rec Sports Championship!
Photo/Video
Take a peek inside the new Ford Robotics Building (from June, a lot more drywall is up!).
The Biped Robotics Lab tests a new autonomous torso rig on Cassie.
Jason Corso and Brent Griffin are interviewed about BubbleNets.
Take a 360 tour of M-Air in the summer. Bookmark for winter.
Recent PhD Mia Stevens talks to Career Girls about being a robotics engineer.
Upcoming events
This weekend: Into the Dataverse Hackathon. Data collection and UI for DoD maintenance tasks.
Sept. 28: Friday Night AI with Emily Mower Provost, will discuss Personalized Tech, & Mental Health.
Elliott Rouse and Alejandro Azocar's Open Source Leg will be featured in a new show with Kari Byron, premiering in October, showcasing socially-beneficial tech.
Nov. 1: "AI and Robotics Symposium: Sharing Thought Leadership Shaping the Future of Work". Register here!
Past events
James Cutler and others did a Reddit AMA about the mission sending up TBEx satellites.
Victor, a robot in the ARM Lab, celebrated Pride month.
Qualisys, about to install another set of 12 motion capture cameras, profiled M-Air.
Gail Patricelli talked sage grouse courtship at the first Robotics Interfaces seminar of the year – more to come!
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