BRL Researchers Tamara Bonaci and Howard Chizeck along with Ryan Calo of the UW School of Law received the best paper award at the recent IEEE Ethics 2014 Conference for their paper titled: “App Stores for the Brain: Privacy & Security in Brain-Computer Interfaces” Link to IEEE Ethics 2014 Awards
New BluHaptics Video with the Kuka Youbot
Post-doc Fredrik Ryden shows off some of the work he’s been doing with a Kuka robot.
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.
BioRobotics Lab Participates in the Smart America Challenge
Members of the BioRobotics Lab have joined a team of engineers, academics and industrial partners to revolutionize disaster response. Read more at SmartAmerica.org
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 –
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
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