Category: Robotics
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Prof. Matuszek receives prestigious NSF CAREER award for robotics research
CSEE professor Cynthia Matuszek received a presigeous NSF CAREER award to support her research on improving the ability of robots to interact with people in everyday environments. The five-year award provides nearly $550,000 to support research by Dr. Matuszek and her students in the Interactive Robotics and Language lab.
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talk: Risk-Aware Coordination between Aerial & Ground Robots, 12-1 Wed. 3/2
ArtIAMAS Seminar SeriesCo-organized by UMBC, UMCP, and Army Research Lab Risk-Aware Coordination between Aerial and Ground Robots Pratap TokekarComputer Science, University of Maryland, College Park 12-1 PM ET, Wed. 2 March 2022 via Webex As autonomous systems are fielded in unknown, dynamic, potentially contested conditions, they will need to operate with partial, uncertain information. Successful…
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CSEE alum Balaji Vishwanathan’s robotics company featured in Forbes
Balaji Viswanathan’s company Invento Robotics is featured in Forbes India for its work on applying robotics to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New NSF grant to improve human-robot interaction
Drs. Matuszek, Ferraro and WInder received an NSF award for research on semi-supervised deep learning for domain adaptation in robotic language acquisition.
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New NSF award will help robots learn to understand humans in complex environments
Prof. Ferraro in UMBC’s Pi2 visualization laboratory talking to a virtual robot, modeled using a combination of Unity, ROS, and Gazebo. Image from a recent paper on this research.. New NSF project will help robots learn to understand humans in complex environments UMBC Assistant Professor Cynthia Matuszek is the PI on a new NSF research…
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Meet Your Professor: Dr. Cynthia Matuszek, 12-1 Mon 4/15, ITE231
Meet Your Professor: Dr. Cynthia Matuszek On April 15th, come join the Computer Science Education Club for the third installment of its Spring 2019 Meet Your Professor series featuring Dr. Cynthia Matuszek. The Meet Your Professor events provide students with the opportunity to learn more about their professors, including how they achieved their position, what…
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talk: Learning to Ground Instructions to Plans, 2:30 Thr 3/21, ITE346
Learning to Ground Natural Language Instructions to Plans Nakul Gopalan, Brown University 2:30-3:30pm Thursday, 21 March 2019, ITE 346, UMBC In order to easily and efficiently collaborate with humans, robots must learn to complete tasks specified using natural language. Natural language provides an intuitive interface for a layperson to interact with a robot without the…
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MD-AI Meetup holds 1st event at UMBC 6-8pm Wed 10/3, 7th floor library
MD-AI Meetup holds 1st event at UMBC 6-8pm Wed 10/3, 7th floor library A new Maryland-based meetup interest group has been established for Artificial Intelligence (MD-AI Meetup) and will have its first meeting at UMBC this coming Wednesday (Oct 3) from 6:00-8:00pm in the 7th floor of the library. The first meeting will feature…
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Prof. Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch
Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch UMBC CSEE Professor Cynthia Matuszek was named as one AI’s 10 to Watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems. The designation is given every two years to a group of “10 young stars who have demonstrated outstanding AI achievements”. IEEE Intelligent Systems accepts nominations from around the world, which…
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🤖 talk: Where’s my Robot Butler? 1-2pm Friday 4/13, ITE 231
UMBC ACM Student Chapter Talk Where’s my Robot Butler? Robotics, NLP and Robots in Human Environments Professor Cynthia Matuszek, UMBC 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 13 April 2018, ITE 231, UMBC As robots become more powerful, capable, and autonomous, they are moving from controlled industrial settings to human-centric spaces such as medical environments, workplaces, and homes. As physical…