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/ 

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!

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

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.