GRASP news
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| Nov 2007, The Micro Manipulation Project was featured on the Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog. read
more... |
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Sep 2007, Grasp's Summer Academy of
Applied Science and Technology (SAAST) is featured on the NFS website. read more ...
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| Sep 2007, The ben franklin
racing team featured in the "Morning Call". read
more ... |
| Aug 2007, The ben franklin
racing team advances to the semi-finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge. read more ... |
| Feb 2007, GRASP's Ben Franklin
Racing Team was featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer. read and watch. |
| Feb 2007, GRASP course challenges students to invent stair-climbing robots in effort to boost interest read more. |
| Feb 2007,
SEAS will be the second school in the country where students can earn
master's in robotics. read more. |
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Nov 2006, Mark
Yim and Vijay Kumar joined with the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Lab and others to obtain a DARPA contract to design a remote controlled
nano air vehicle (NAV). press release
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| Oct 2006, The Ben
Franklin Racing Team led by GRASP was chosen as one
final teams to participate the 2007 Urban Challenge. press
release |
| Aug
2006, GRASP welcomes Ben Taskar (January 2007)
and Katherine Kuchenbecker (September 2007) to its faculty. |
| Aug 2006, Mark Yim
and former GRASPee, Jim Ostrowski, are the workshop chairs for Robotics
2006. |
| Jul 2006, Vijay
Kumar will co-organize the 10th International
Symposium on Experimental Robotics. |
| Jun 2006, C.J.
Taylor is a Program Chair for the IEEE Computer Society Conference on
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. |
| May
2006, GRASP to offer Masters of Science and
Engineering in Robotics. For
more Information |
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GRASP Awards
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| Oct 2007, Hadas Kress Gazit is a finalist for the Best Paper Award at IROS 2007. |
| Jul 2007, Nader Motee has won the Best Student paper award at the 2007 American Control Conference. "Optimal Control of Spatially Distributed Systems"(ACC2007) |
| Apr 2007, Dr. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, who will join Grasp as an Assistant
Professor in July, won the Best Paper Award on Haptic Technology at the
2007 IEEE World Haptics Conference. conference website. |
| Mar 2007, Ameesh Makadia is a co-winner of the 2007 Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award. |
| Mar 2007, Hadas Kress Gazit and Georgios Fainekos are finalists for the Best
Student Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation. |
| Jan 2007,
Vijay Kumar was elected to be the North American member of the IEEE
Robotics and Automation Administrative Committee by election among all
RAS members. IEEE Awards. |
| Nov 2006, Michael
Zavlanos is
one of four finalists for the Best Student Paper Award the 45th IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control for his paper entitled "A Dynamical
Systems Approach to Weighted Graph Matching". |
| Jun
2006, Ameesh Makadia was ranked first (in 11 out of 17
criteria)in the first 3D
shape retrieval contest. |
| Apr
2006, Dan Lee received the 2006
Lindback Teaching Award. |
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