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UMBC researchers are discovering building blocks of hand motions, aiming to improve physical therapy for humans and find better ways to program robots. They're turning to a novel source material...

December 18, 2025 · 8:07 AM

HCST 499: Robots, AI, & Transhumanists: Exploring the Uncanny Valley

New class taught by Eric Brown, Spring 2026 TuTh 4:00-5:15pm

Human Context of Science and Technology (HCST) is a UMBC certificate program that provides students with a deeper understanding of the human context of science, technology, engineering, and...

December 12, 2025 · 1:13 PM

UMBC researchers use Indian dance to improve robotic hand movement learning

UMBC Professor Ramana Vinjamuri and his students used Bharatanatyam Mudras, Indian classical dance hand gestures, to help train and evaluate their system for recognizing and modeling human hand...

December 5, 2025 · 10:54 AM

Stop shadowing me Spot!

Human-robot teaming technology mimics every move

This short YouTube video clip from UMBC’s Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy demonstrates how well the HoloLens spatial mapping and augmented reality interface combine with the...

July 3, 2025 · 9:50 AM

Talk: Design & Fabrication for Tangible Interaction with Real-World Objects & Environments

12-1pm EDT, Friday, May 9, 2025; UMBC ENG 231

Design and Fabrication for Tangible Interaction with Real-World Objects and Environments Daniel Campos Zamora, University of Washington 12-1 pm EDT, Friday, May 9, 2025 UMBC ENG 231 (ACTIV lab)...

May 7, 2025 · 11:33 AM

Talk: Seeing Beneath the Surface: Vision-Enabled Robots for Long-term Ocean Monitoring

4:00–5:15pm ET Wed, Feb. 19, 2025, UMBC ITE 231 & online

Seeing Beneath the Surface: Vision-Enabled Robots for Long-term Ocean Monitoring Xiaomin Lin, JHU 4–5:15pm ET Wed, Feb. 19, 2025, ITE 231, UMBC & online Autonomous systems operating...

February 15, 2025 · 12:03 PM

Ramana Vinjamuri co-authors book on embedded systems and robotics

A practical guide for undergraduate and graduate students

Introduction to Embedded Systems and Robotics, A Practical Guide Nayan Kakoty, Rupam Goswami and Ramana Vinjamuri UMBC CSEE professor Ramana Vinjamuri is one of the authors of a new book,...

January 12, 2025 · 6:09 PM

Talk: Improving Shared Embodiment between Humans and Robots with Haptics

12-1 pm EDT, October 30, ITE 459, UMBC

UMBC WISS Series Improving Shared Embodiment between Humans and Robots with Haptics Janelle Clark, Mechanical Engineering, UMBC 12-1pm EDT, Oct. 30, ITE 459 and online Lunch will be...

October 29, 2024 · 1:10 PM

UMBC CARDS advancing robot communication and cooperation

When two robots are better than one

The UMBC Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy (CARDS) has been working to develop robotic devices that can interact with their environment and each other to plan and accomplish...

March 23, 2024 · 6:25 PM

Emotion Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction

via multimodal fusion and deep learning

UMBC Ph.D. student Farshad Safavi presented his dissertation proposal on recognizing emotions for better human-robot interaction on February 9, 2024. Emotion Recognition via Multimodal Fusion...

February 10, 2024 · 10:15 AM

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