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'Spark of Color' wins soft robotics art awards
April 16, 2026
The artwork captured the explosive beauty of combustion actuators through a high-speed camera, winning two awards at the 2026 IEEE RoboSoft conference in Kanazawa, Japan.
Five new concentrations for undergraduate robotics major
March 17, 2026
Michigan Robotics undergraduate students can choose from five new concentrations to build depth in perception, dynamics, hardware, human-robot interaction, or full stack systems.
Chad Jenkins named ACM Fellow
March 11, 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Chad Jenkins a 2025 ACM Fellow for contributions to robot learning and broadening participation in robotics and AI.
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“Isn’t the robotics major just code with a little bit of hardware, or hardware with a little bit of code?” asks undergrad Yulei Fu. What separates it from CS, ME, EE, and other @michiganengineering majors? Professor Jessy Grizzle’s answer: “Robotics...
Spark of Color: water dancing off of a soft robotics combustion actuatorSpark of Color.” Manvi Saxena, Yihao Geng, Jason Brown, Daniel Newman, Cameron Aubin. A tiny controlled explosion inflates ...
Having trouble concentrating? Not in Robotics. Five new undergraduate robotics concentrations, coming this fall. https://t.co/6NQfQzsorO
