View Joe Campbell, Ph.D. student in the Interactive Robotics Lab received the prestigious NSF EAPSI Fellowship. The fellowship will enable Joe to travel to Japan. At the University of Osaka Joe will be working for 10 weeks with our research collaborators from the...
View Our robot Sun Devil-RX was featured in various news articles. We have recently shown how machine learning can be used by an autonomous robot to learn how to play basketball. Sun Devil repeatedly shot a ball to the hoop and learned how to refine his motor skills....
View The research collaboration between David Vogt and Heni Ben Amor about Human-Robot-Collaboration got featured in the newest print issue of the New Scientist. An excerpt from the article: That could relieve some of the physical stress on workers, says team member...
View Congratulations to our junior member Ricky Johnson for receiving the NASA space grant! Ricky will be working on football-playing robots.
View We are releasing a MATLAB implementation of the GrouPS algorithm for sparse latent space policy search. GrouPS combines reinforcement learning and dimensionality reduction, while also including prior structural knowledge about the task. The algorithm exploits...