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Robotics

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Photo of student working on a robot. Caption: Ryan Bodhipaksha, a robotics engineering major at Arizona State University and co-lead of PYRO Robotics, practices with the team’s robot to prepare for the VEX Robotics World Championship 2018. Photo courtesy of Samantha Blokker

ASU robotics club ready to rumble at world championship

The Rossum Rumblers’ PYRO team represented Arizona State University’s Fulton Schools at the 2018 VEX® Robotics World Championship.
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Photo of two men standing with one holding a plaque.

Will nature-inspired soft robots spark the next tech revolution?

Harvard University Professor George M. Whitesides spoke to ASU students and faculty about how simple, soft robots can forge a new path for robotics technologies.
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Sethuraman Panchanathan speaking to a female student. Caption: Professor Sethuraman Panchanathan oversees ASU’s $540-million-plus research enterprise and leads research aimed at developing computing technologies and human-centered computing applications.

Exemplary leadership, significant contributions earn professors AAAS Fellow status

Outstanding achievements and leadership in their fields earn two Fulton Schools professors Fellow status in one of the most prominent organizations of scientists and engineers.
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High school students compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition Arizona State Championship at Wells Fargo Arena in October 2017.

Robots battle for FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship

Arizona State University hosted the FIRST® Robotics Competition State Championship in partnership with the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Access ASU and the Sanghi Family Foundation, and showcased the pathway of FIRST programs and STEM opportunities at ASU and beyond.
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Photo of foam fingers. Caption: You can count on the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering to come out in droves for the homecoming game. On Oct. 28, 2017, when the Sun Devils put up a valiant fight against the University of Southern California Trojans, the ASU engineering community’s school spirit — and creativity — was on full display for the Homecoming Block Party and foam “Go Devils” fingers were the giveaway of choice. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

Homecoming 2017 – May the Fork Be With You

A time-honored ASU tradition, Homecoming 2017 brought together students, parents and alumni to celebrate their Sun Devil spirit.
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A team of students dressed in maroon ASU polos accept an award with their faculty mentor. The caption reads: Above: The Arizona State University VisionHack team accepts their award after finishing first place for Best Presentation, Most Original Approach and Most Innovative in the computer vision hackathon. Left to right, faculty mentor Jared Schoepf, computer science undergraduate students Abhik Chowdhury and Ashley Megumi Satkowski, computer science graduate student Daniel D’Souza, software engineering graduate student Alexander Lampis Slaughter and electrical and computer engineering graduate student and team lead Sami Mian take the stage at the conclusion of the three-day hackathon, held at Moscow's National University of Science and Technology from September 11-13, 2017. Photo courtesy of NUST MISIS

ASU hacks the competition in Moscow hackathon

A team of Sun Devil engineers brought home a trio of first-place awards from VisionHack, a computer vision hackathon held in Moscow.
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Kambhampati, fellow experts discuss human-machine collaboration, AI design

Professor Subbarao Kambhampati joined fellow AI experts for a discussion with the Computer Science Museum on human-machine collaboration and how it affects the way AI tools are developed.
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A man wearing a red shirt and black pants stands on a stage next to an enormous TEDx sign. The caption reads: Assistant Professor Ted Pavlic presents his TED talk at the TEDxASU event held March 22 at the Tempe Center for the Arts.

Ted Pavlic urges scholars to be undisciplined in TEDxASU talk

Assistant Professor Ted Pavlic recounts his early days as a graduate student to illustrate how to drive innovation by being undisciplined.
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Photo of Professor Subbarao Kambhampati with one of the robots used in his lab team’s research aimed at enabling effective collaboration between humans and intelligent robots. The wooden building blocks on the table spell out the name of the lab, Yochan, meaning “thought” or “plan” in the Sanskrit language. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU

Potential world-changing impacts of artificial intelligence raise promising possibilities and societal challenges

Artificial intelligence technologies could shape the future in both positive and troubling ways, says the Fulton Schools professor leading the largest organization in the field.
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Photo of three students working with a robotic arm with a caption of "Computer science doctoral students (left to right) Anagha Kulkarni, Sarath Sreedharan and Tathagata Chakraborti have combined aspects of robotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and virtual-reality technology in their project for the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition. Photographer: Marco-Alexis Chaira/ASU."

ASU team taking concept for closer human-robot connection to U.S. Imagine Cup finals

A design for a system to enable higher levels of human-robot interaction has put some Fulton Schools doctoral students into the national round of a global technology competition.
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At the fifth annual Rehabilitation Robotics Conference, Denise Oswalt demonstrates a virtual reality application from the lab of Bradley Greger, an ASU researcher who specializes in neural engineering.

Rehab robotics field promises to return control, mobility to aging population

Hundreds of rehab robotics researchers, clinicians and industry reps gather at ASU to discuss advancements in growing field.
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Robotics + Research + Fun = Creative Force

Under the Fulton Schools’ guidance, the Arizona FIRST LEGO League outreach program continues to grow, helping to expand STEM education to youngsters throughout the state.
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A slam dunk for machine learning

What once took days for a robot to learn now takes mere hours, thanks to a new algorithm developed by an ASU engineer.
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A look back at 2016 summer camps

ASU's Fulton Schools Summer Academy actively engages students in grades 1-12 in STEM opportunities through hands-on engineering activities.
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ASU team wins first prize at Intel Cup in China

The ASU VIPLE and Minnowboard Robot Project team continued a string of excellent performances at the Intel Cup by ASU students by winning their second straight first prize award.
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Hello, robots. Hello, world of engineering.

LEGO robots help teach young students programming and problem solving at a summer program that aims to make STEM fun and engaging.
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Thinking big with small robots

Spring Berman is developing methods to optimize and control collaborative, adaptable swarms of small robots to tackle big problems.
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Expect the unexpected: Autonomous car project prepares engineers for industry challenges

In the robotics industry, engineering isn't easy, so a professor is teaching his computer systems engineering students to work with difficult and unpredictable sensors and situations.
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Date range May 2018 – June 2016