Results for "robotics"

Projects

Good Systems Call for Undergraduate Researchers

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Opportunity Overview: Good Systems is a University of Texas at Austin research grand challenge with the goal of designing AI…

Miniature High-torque Direct-Drive Actuators For Robot Hand Applications

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To realize compact, light-weight robot hands with high-level dexterity, new actuators with im-proved dynamic performance and torque-to-weight ratio are needed. The objective of this research is to…

Faculty

Dana Ballard

Affiliated Departments:
Computer Science
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Dr. Ballard's main research interest is in computational theories of the brain with emphasis on human vision. In 1985 he and Chris Brown led a team that designed and built a high speed binocular camera control…

Roland Benke

Affiliated Departments:
Mechanical Engineering
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Dr. Roland Benke performs privately funded research at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus and is engaged with startups developing new sensors for hazardous material detection and conducting government-funded research.…

Joydeep Biswas

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, Computer Science
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Joydeep Biswas' research areas include perception, planning, and failure recovery for autonomous mobile robots. These topics support his goal of having autonomous service mobile robots deployed on a campus to city…

Mark Helper

Affiliated Departments:
Department of Geological Sciences of the Jackson School of Geosciences
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Dr. Helper's current research involves field-and laboratory-based studies of Precambrian crystalline rocks in Antarctica and central Texas. With colleagues Ian Dalziel, James Connelly and Wulf Gose, he is testing…

Ann Majewicz Fey

Affiliated Departments:
Cockrell School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Dell Medical School, Dell Medical School
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Medical, Rehabilitive, and Surgical Robotics, Teleoperation, Haptics, and Wearable Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Dynamics and Control

Scott Niekum

Affiliated Departments:
Computer Science
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The goal of Dr.Niekum's research is to enable personal robots to be deployed in the home and workplace with minimal intervention by robotics experts. In settings such as these, robots do not operate in isolation…

Mitchell Pryor

Affiliated Departments:
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
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Peter Stone

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Computer Science
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Professor Stone's research aims to enable multiple intelligent agents to learn to act both individually and in coordination with one another towards individual and/or common goals in real-time, noisy, collaborative…