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Talia Moore

Talia Moore

Assistant Professor, Robotics

Email taliaym@umich.edu

Office 2256 FMCRB

Research Interests Robot-animal interactions and the ecology, evolution, and control of arrhythmic motion in animals and robots.

Related focus area Design & Soft Robotics

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Michigan Robotics at IROS 2023 in Detroit

September 7, 2023

Simulation of jerboa bones showing stress with a fused metatarsal and unfused metatarsals breaking under stress

How evolution overshot the optimum bone structure in jerboas

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Talia Moore

Talia Moore earns Robotics Faculty Award

January 25, 2022

A robotics interface seminar.

Robotics Interfaces seminars exhibit deep connections across fields

April 9, 2019

Honors and awards

2023
Finalist ENGR 100 Section of the Year Award — U-M College of Engineering
2023
Nominated for the Outstanding Advisor Award — Advising Council of University of Michigan
2022
ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award — ORAU
2022
Departmental Faculty Award — U-M Department of Robotics
2018
Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award — University of Michigan Postdoc Association
2018
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Innovation Grant — University of Michigan
2011
Honorable Mention Graduate Research Fellowship Program — National Science Foundation