BRL shows off at the UW SmartAmerica Challenge Event!

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The Smart Emergency Response System team that includes the BioRobotics Lab showcased their ongoing collaborative efforts to build novel haptic and teleoperated system to enhance disaster response. You can read more about the event at the C4C website here.

The ongoing work is shown in the video below, where a drone tracks and follows a teleoperated robot for communication and relaying information between operator and remote system. This particular demonstration was done at the Boeing Collaborative Systems Lab.

NSF Supports BRL Secure Telerobotics Research

The NSF has awarded us a grant to support our research into securing telerobotic systems! BRL’s Howard Chizeck and co-PI Tadayoshi Kohno from UW’s Computer Science and Engineering department will advise students as they develop new methods for monitoring, detecting, and protecting against any malicious activities that may harm a teleoperated task. More at UW

Raven II makes an appearance in Ender’s Game

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The Raven II robot of UW EE’s BioRobotics Lab has been in the spotlight on many occasions, from fulfilling an 11 year old’s wish experience through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, to becoming the first open-source platform for surgical robotics research for seven universities across the country. But Hollywood? More at UW EE