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Keep up with the latest Michigan Robotics news through our newsletter on Substack! The latest includes: - designing robot characters for kid's eye exams - can robots take over security - how business can be more efficient with open-source AI Read: umrobotics.substack.com/p/the-stranges…

Congrats to Jing Xiao on earning the Robotics Alumni Merit Award! Xiao is an alum of the retired Computer Information and Control Engineering (CICE) program at UM and now leads the Department of Robotics Engineering at @WPI. Watch Xiao's award lecture: youtube.com/watch?v=PsqZTA…

"Rather than picking at delicate membranes on the retina... surgeons can walk across the surface of the retina in a 3D reconstruction and rake up these membranes, like they are raking leaves," says Dr. Mark Draelos. Read: robotics.umich.edu/news/2025/drae…
Check out open tenure-track and tenured faculty positions in #robotics, human-centered #AI, and AI education @UMRobotics @umsi @UMich !
We're hiring faculty. Join us and create the next generation of robotics and roboticists for the benefit of society. robotics.umich.edu/jobs

We're hiring faculty. Join us and create the next generation of robotics and roboticists for the benefit of society. robotics.umich.edu/jobs

🆕 #openaccess paper! Adaptive #ergodicsearch with #energyawarescheduling for persistent multi-robot missions by Kaleb Ben Naveed, Devansh R. Agrawal, Rahul Kumar & Dimitra Panagou 🔓bit.ly/4mDfBmo @UMRobotics @MichiganAero

Congratulations to Annette Masterson, Ph.D., and Samia Cornelius Bhatti on our recent acceptance of our ICIS 2025 short paper titled 'Managing Robots and People. @umsi @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics @ieeeroman @ieee_ras_icra dx.doi.org/10.7302/27404
2025 Robotics Outreach Ambassadors! These individuals... • mentored FIRST Robotics teams • worked with Girl Scouts to help them earn merit badges • conducted tours of the buildings, labs, and of their robotics research and so much more. Read: robotics.umich.edu/news/2025/robo…
This origami soft climbing robot can carry payloads twice its weight up walls. Read more: robotics.umich.edu/news/2025/spar…
A multidisciplinary team of researchers has received Bold Challenges Boost funding from OVPR for a project focused on developing an autonomous laboratory. 👉🔗 Learn more: me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/ne… @UMRobotics #umich #umichengin #MakeTheWorldWorkBetter #MechanicalEngineering


Congratulations to @kwameporterrob1 on this insightful paper, which critically examines the impacts of automation and mass production while proposing an alternative through community-based economies. @ieeeroman @BlackInRobotics @roneglash @guzdial tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
🏆 Beyond grateful to be selected as a "Rising Woman Start in Social Robotics" at @icsr2025! @UMRobotics

Using #AI, roboticists developed a way to virtually detect and discover submerged archaeological sites — like #shipwrecks by automating the search for such sites in multibeam sonar data collected by surface vessels. Learn more: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/expedition/25a… #explore

Incredible to be quoted in the article "Sound familiar? Matching voices boost trust in self-driving cars" about our upcoming paper, led by @CarolQiaoning @Jessie_YangXi @umsi @UMRobotics @BlackInRobotics @UMichiganNews @HFES @umichioe @ASU news.umich.edu/sound-familiar…
At #roman2025 yesterday and presented my paper! dx.doi.org/10.7302/26058 We found an interesting preference pattern in human security agent interaction: people prefer humans when citizens initiate interactions, but prefer robots when security initiate them.
(1/4) The MAVRIC group will be presenting several papers at the IEEE ROMAN 2025 conference. Links to the papers are below. Masterson, A., and Robert, L. P. (2025). Rebranding Sex Robots: Realbotix's Corporate Metamorphosis, RO-MAN 2025 lnkd.in/gkhijmNn.
New free course: ROB 201, Calculus for the Modern Engineer! Students not only learn what calculus is, but also why it matters and how to use it in solving real-world problems. Lectures, textbook, and homework all available. Check it out on GitHub: github.com/michiganroboti…

Congratulations to Xin Ye for passing her Phd field preliminary exams. @umsi @Jessie_YangXi @mavrojean

I'm excited to be part of this Short Wave podcast on neurotic robots. "This missing trait could make robots more 'human' with Nell Greenfieldboyce. @NPR @NPRShortWave @umsi @UMRobotics @UMichResearch @HRI_Conference @BlackInRobotics @ieeeras npr.org/transcripts/nx…
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This missing trait could make robots more 'human' : Short Wave
Neurotic, anxious robots like C-3P0 from Star Wars' C-3P0 and Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are a staple of science fiction — but they're not as common in the real world. Most of...
“The vision for this project is to be able to authenticate artwork while it’s being produced and not just in the outcome,” said @p_alvesoliveira, the director of Robot Studio at @UMengineering. Read the entire @MLive article: mlive.com/news/2025/08/a…
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