Post-doc Fredrik Ryden shows off some of the work he’s been doing with a Kuka robot.
Announcements
BRL shows off at the UW SmartAmerica Challenge Event!
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.
UW Center for Commercialization Spotlight on BluHaptics
The University of Washington’s Center for Commercialization published an article about our underwater haptics spinoff BluHaptics. Go check it out here
Upcoming BRL Faculty Member Sam Burden Presents Research to UW
Sam Burden, who will be joining the BRL as a faculty member in September of 2015, gave a talk today at the UW Electrical Engineering Department’s colloquium series. Check it out for an overview of his ongoing work –
Raven II makes an appearance in Ender’s Game
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
BRL Undergraduate Sharon Newman helps create a new High School Course Curriculum
Sharon Newman, an undergraduate working in the BRL has collaborated with Theresa Britschgi of Seattle BioMed to create a course curriculum for high school students covering bioengineering tissues. See the final report and curriculum here