Summer Presentations.
This summer four students, Harshey Aggarwal, Jojo Liang, Jared Rosenbaum, and Taojun Wang, completed remote independent studies at the lab. Their presentations included a proposed abstraction system for Zoom meetings that may help study when someone is listening (Harshey and Jojo), a quantitative study of tai chi (Taojun), and a reflection on the “human-likeness” inherent…
MOCO 2020
The RAD Lab presented 3 new works at MOCO 2020 this week. (And check out Babyface on the homepage of the next MOCO in 2022!) R. Kaushik, A. K. Mishra (Siemens), and A. LaViers. “Feasible Stylized Mo- tion: Robotic Manipulator Imitation of a Human Demonstration with Collision Avoidance and Style in Increasingly Cluttered Environments.” 7th International…
RSS 2020
Workshops build community. Come check out ours Sunday morning (Pacific time) at RSS 2020: https://radlab.mechse.illinois.edu/rss-2020-workshop/
transparency.
over the past 7 years, the RAD Lab has employed 43 different people (myself included) in this federally-funded organization working in #robotics. for #juneteenth, inspired by @pullupforchange, I want to acknowledge the lack of diversity on this team. while we’ve had 49% people of color work in the lab and 47% women, only 19% were women…
Article in American Scientist
The July/August issue of American Scientist magazine features an article by Amy LaViers, featuring our work with artist-in-residence Kate Ladenheim alongside lots of contributions from the lab more broadly: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/dancing-with-robots.
ICRA 2020
Allison’s presentation for ICRA 2020 (held virtually) is up here: https://youtu.be/fLzjsvMCkuE. When the proceedings are online; we’ll share the link to the paper here as well!
Allison Bushman, M.S.
Congrats to Allison Bushman on her (virtual!) graduation and master’s thesis entitled “Evaluation of human-like teleoperated robot motion through performance, perception, and preference-based studies”. This is a picture of Allison (center), along with Reika McNish and Austin Hamlett, taking a rock climbing class during ME 598 — next she taught a class on gymnastics in…
HRI 2020
Although HRI 2020 was canceled this year, we are really excited that everyone can watch the virtual presentation by Kate Ladenheim (also in the picture above) describing our paper in this year’s proceedings “Live Dance Performance Investigating the Feminine Cyborg Metaphor with a Motion-activated Wearable Robot” by Kate Ladenheim, Reika McNish, Wali Rizvi, and Amy…
Interview in the Bridge
This issue of The Bridge, the National Academy of Engineering’s quarterly periodical, features an interview about the RAD Lab. See p. 73 of the issue (or p. 75 of the linked PDF): https://www.nae.edu/File.aspx?id=229295
Event Moving Virtual — IPRH-sponsored Participatory Performance Cancelled
Due to the new campus policy regarding COVID-19, “Circuit Circus presents: Saunter, Skitter, Stride: a Participatory Event to Study Locomotion Styles in Humans and Robots”, is cancelled. We are moving to a virtual format and will update this page with details as soon as we have them! Description: The IPRH Research cluster “Understanding Movement Style…
CRCI 2020
Another successful and inspiring CRCI 2020! Pictured: Kate Ladenheim performing “Babyface” The People Movers x The RAD Lab at this year’s CRCI.
The Performance Arcade 2020
The lab’s collaborative work with artist in residence Kate Ladenheim opened in Wellington, NZ at this year’s Performance Arcade. This art installation includes live performance and interactive participation. This installation is about a femme cyborg who was made to be perfect, uncovering a tension between humans and machines through original sound, choreography, and interaction with…
Berkeley Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Amy, giving the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) on January 28. Talk details at http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/13/art-tech-culture/3224/dancing-with-robots-expressivity-in-natural-and-artificial-systems. [Update:] Talk recording at https://archive.org/details/20200127amylaviers. References: [1] E. R. Truitt. Medieval robots: mechanism, magic, nature, and art. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. [2] A. LaViers. Learning the Primary Colors of Dance.…
Hooding Ceremony
Congrats to Dr. Umer Huzaifa!
IROS 2019
Amy recently traveled to Macau, China to present a paper, “Toward a Bipedal Robot with Variable Gait Styles: Sagittal Forces Analysis in a Planar Simulation and a Prototype Ball-Tray Mechanism”, which is co-authored with a team a Tulsa University, showing our progress in creating correspondence with a physical prototype and a simulation used to design…
Humanoids 2019
Allison, pictured above, giving a lab tour to an FAA 110 course, just returned from Humanoids 2019 where she presented a poster of her work studying joint-space teleoperation at the “Workshop on Teleoperation of Humanoid Robots”.
RO-MAN 2019.
An image of beautiful classical Indian dance from the conference banquet. J. Lambert, W. Rizvi, U. Huzaifa, and A. LaViers. “A Comparison of Descriptive and Emotive Labels to Explain Human Perception of Gait Styles on a Compass Walker in Variable Contexts.” 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). 1-8. New…
MOCO 2019.
The RAD Lab had three presentations at MOCO 2019 at ASU this past week: A Practice Work presentation of A Machine (above). Y. Zhou, M.Asselmeier, and A. LaViers. “Toward Expressive Multi-Platform Tele- operation: Laban-Inspired Concurrent Operation of Multiple Joints on the Re- think Robotics Baxter Robot in Static and Dynamic Tasks.” 6th International Conference on Movement…
RO-MAN 2019 Workshop: Schedule and Event Images
Inspired from our rich “artist-in-residence” program, the RAD Lab presents a workshop at IEEE RO-MAN 2019 on merging artistic and research practice. After an international call for performances, we are excited to present work from our colleagues at Oregon State University and University of Bristol as well as new work from the RAD Lab. The…
New journal paper analyzing human motion and robot imitation
A new journal paper has been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics, describing much of lead author Roshni Kaushik’s masters thesis work. You can find the article here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-019-00595-y
Dance NOW Festival 2019
Photo by Yi-Chun Wu Kate, Reika, Wali, and Amy traveled to New York City to present the premiere of Babyface in the 2019 Dance NOW Festival at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. The performance is part of an in-development robotic prototype (shown above). They also held related outreach workshops at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of…
New journal paper with artist-in-residence
A new journal paper is now published online, co-authored with Artist-in-residence and Research Technician Catie Cuan and Research Technician Erin Berl, extending work by students Ishaan Pakrasi and Novoneel Chakraborty (pictured above at the Conference on Research on Choreographic Interfaces — CRCI — at Brown University). We are happy to see how fruitful our artist-in-residence…
IPRH Mixer
Interested in style, interaction, dance, robots, and participatory performance? Come to our student/faculty mixer on September 24 at 4pm in the RAD Lab, 1208 Mechanical Engineering Lab (MEL).
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