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Researchers work on a state-of-the-art bipedal robot in the Walking Robotics Lab.

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The robot has four legs with backward-facing knees. Each leg has three actuators, controlling hip ab/adduction, hip flexion/extension, and knee flexion/extension. Exposed wires link up to the motors. T.R.O.T is emblazoned on the case around the belly of the robot.

Open-source, modular robot for understanding evolution

February 11, 2026

A cost-effective, customizable quadruped could help researchers discover the particular advantages related to the length and segmentation of animal limbs.
Close up of advanced prosthetic hand with a green block grasped between the thumb and index finger, positioning the block at the top of a stack.

Cindy Chestek honored with award for miniature engineering

February 6, 2026

Professor Cindy Chestek was recognized for her research advancing brain-machine interfaces and nerve-machine interfaces.
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Leia Stirling recognized by U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

February 4, 2026

The College of Engineering named Professor Leia Stirling as the IOE Department Faculty Award recipient for her outstanding contributions through research, teaching and service.
Jason Corso sits in the chair representing the professorship, with Robotics Department chair Dawn Tilbury and Dean Karen Thole behind.

Jason Corso named Toyota Professor of Artificial Intelligence

January 30, 2026

Jason Corso is recognized for his contributions to computer vision, multimodal learning, and AI for societal impact with this professorship.
A track and field athlete jumps with the assistance of an ankle exoskeleton.

U-M, ASICS to launch groundbreaking sport innovation initiative

December 19, 2025

The University of Michigan and ASICS will establish the $25M ASICS x Michigan Sport Innovation Center, a pioneering research effort aimed at advancing human performance and sport science.
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Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Winter 2026

Jasmine Jaggers - Zell Lurie Institute
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Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Winter 2026

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Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Winter 2026

Jason Ma - Dyna Robotics
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Robotics Pathways and Careers Speaker Series - Winter 2026

Kellen Schroeter - Pattern Labs
A retreat participant assembles the front page of a newspaper in the future.
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How a Design Retreat plots the future for Robotics

December 18, 2025

Robotics experts across fields came together in NewLab Detroit to envision the future of robotic design in society at the first Design Retreat for Human-Robot Interaction.
Chad Brouze at the LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon
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How a robotics hackathon can get you building

December 17, 2025

Robotics undergraduate Chad Brouze participated in the Hugging Face LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon, where his team built a voice-controlled robot arm to assist auto mechanics.
Geeta Peethambaran stands on a balance trainer, testing steadiness on a difficult exercise.
rehabilitation robotics

AI supports home-based balance training

December 8, 2025

New machine learning model draws data from wearable sensors to predict how a physical therapist would assess balance training performance.
A four-wheel Clearpath Husky robot with a ground penetrating radar attached moves in stark Utah desert.
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Improving Mars and Moon rover localization with ground penetrating radar

November 6, 2025

By incorporating ground penetrating radar into a planetary rover's localization system, rovers could traverse planets more accurately in environments where wheels often slip.
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A researcher sits at a desk in front of two computers while extending his hand to the hand of a small humanoid robot, about two feet tall, that sits on the desk.
human-robot interaction

A common language to describe and assess human-agent teams

October 23, 2025

A graduate student in the background operates two robotic microsurgery arms in the foreground that are operating on the thin skin of an egg.
rehabilitation robotics

Surgeons “walking across the retina” project earns NIH Innovator Award

October 7, 2025

Three men walk through a lab with a treadmill built into the floor behind them. In the center, Seelhoff wears a prosthetic leg that stores its electronics inside a slim calf-shaped casing. On the left, Kevin carries an open laptop computer.
rehabilitation robotics

Expanding a commercial robotic prosthetic leg's benefits with advanced control

October 6, 2025

A black and white sonar image of a sunken ship.
deep learning for robotics

Sonar shipwreck dataset expands national AI infrastructure

October 3, 2025

Several renders of the SPARC robot as it travels precisely along paths on the ground, transitions to climbing walls, and travels along the wall with and without a payload.
motion planning

Soft origami robot inch-worms up walls

September 24, 2025

Trushant Adeshara and Manveer Singh stand next to a booth table for Michigan Robotics while demonstrating a small mobile robot and a quadruped robot at a conference.
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Robotics Outreach Ambassadors of 2025

September 22, 2025

Illustration of beakers with a robotic arm, chemical compound, and test tubes
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Digital twin lab could transform how new materials are discovered

September 21, 2025