Category: robotics community

University of Michigan researchers will present work on topics such as unsupervised learning, motion and path planning, autonomous vehicle navigation, bipedal gaits, wearable robots, and even snakes at next week’s International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020.

Originally planned for Paris, the conference will be held remotely this year throughout the summer. It is a premier robotics research showcase, and thanks to conference organizers, there are many opportunities to engage with peers beyond reading PDFs on your own computer, such as joining a Slack channel question and answer session, submitting a video to the funny robot challenge, playing robot trivia, or participating in the women in engineering mentoring event.

The work covers the spectrum of Michigan Robotics’ research focus areas, and illustrates the interdisciplinary effort from multiple departments and schools that furthers the potential for robotics to benefit society.

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The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved a number of faculty promotions at their May meeting yesterday, including several Robotics members.

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Chad Jenkins, associate professor of computer science, received an MLK Spirit Award for “exemplifying the leadership and vision of Dr. King through their commitment to social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

An excerpt from his nomination:

If you want to call Professor Chad Jenkins a leading roboticist, you must also call him a leading roboticist who understands the great equalizing potential of robotics, a roboticist who integrates that belief into his cutting-edge research, outreach, and everyday faculty duties, and a roboticist who is determined to include others into his aspirational efforts.

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For the annual University of Michigan #GivingBlueDay, on December 3rd, every dollar donated to Michigan Robotics will be matched with a dollar donated to Women in Science and Engineering (WISE).

The faculty and staff of Michigan Robotics will donate up to $5,000 to WISE, in support of their outreach and programs designed to increase the number of girls and women pursuing degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics while fostering the success of students anywhere on the gender spectrum.

Donate a dollar (or more) to Michigan Robotics.

We’ll donate a dollar (or more) to WISE!

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