UW’s robotics and controls researchers are leaders in the areas of surgical and bio-robotics, haptics, smart cities, and network control systems. They collaborate with and hold secondary appointments in computer science and engineering, bioengineering, and the UW Medical Center, and are active participants in research centers such as the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.
Tactile sensing, biomechanics, biomedical modeling and surgical planning.
Faculty: Blake Hannaford, Howard Jay Chizeck, Samuel Burden
Cloud-based systems, network of sensors, RFIDs, spectrum development and testing.
Faculty: Lillian Ratliff, Linda Bushnell, Baosen Zhang, Maryam Fazel, Hanneneh Hajishirzi
Telerobotics, virtual reality, mobile device interface and remote surgery.
Faculty: Blake Hannaford, Howard Jay Chizeck
Communication networks, sensors, command controllers, drones, developing-world applications.
Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Linda Bushnell
Could this be the beginning of a new era of VR and AR tech? ECE doctoral student Farshid Salemi Parizi and Prof. Shwetak Patel have created AuraRing, a 5 DoF electromagnetic ring and wristband combination that can detect the precise location of someone’s finger and continuously track hand movements.
U.S. technology company Maxar Technologies Inc announced it has selected software developed by startup Olis Robotics to run a robotic arm of a lunar lander under NASA’s broader goal of human moon missions by 2024.
Zhang discussed Artificial Intelligence for Energy Grid Optimization at event hosted by Dept. of Energy Rick Perry.
Joanne Pransky, associate editor for Industrial Robot Journal, recently spoke with Chizeck about haptic feedback challenges and the lessons he’s learned through the founding of several robotics companies.
Dr. Bushnell is the first UW recipient of the IFAC Fellow Award, for "contributions to the analysis and design of networked control systems.”
Team hosted by UW ECE competes in 2019 RoboMaster competition
