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Research seminar

Autonomously moving microrobots that can be controlled remotely have enormous potential for innovative biomedical applications such as non-invasive surgery, drug delivery or cell manipulation.  This talk will present different approaches to the development of such wireless microrobots, ranging from biohybrid to bioinspired systems. Biohybrid and biomimetic approaches are very attractive because they exploit the naturally optimized designs and propulsion sources of biological swimmers.

Research seminar 

Surgical robots and exoskeletons save lives and enable independence. However, their access, acceptance and use are limited by usability barriers and cost-benefit comparisons with conventional practice. My talk will demonstrate soft robotics techniques and transdisciplinary design strategies that address these challenges and stimulate the discovery of new application areas in engineering and medicine.

Hear from Lee Fairclough, President of St. Mary's Hospital 

In her most recent book, Discriminating Data (2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Correlation, which grounds big data's predictive potential, stems from twentieth-century eugenic attempts to “breed” a better future. Recommender systems foster angry clusters of sameness through homophily. Users are “trained” to become authentically predictable via a politics and technology of recognition.

Research seminar 

Research seminar 

In this talk, Dr. Mojtaba Sharifi will go over the research projects he has done in the field of Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Soft Robotics in the past twelve years. His presentation is organized in three sections, which cover his research achievements from his MSc to Postdoc. The first one is devoted to his research area during the MSc and Ph.D. programs on the “Control of HRI: Medical Robotic and Tele-Robotic Systems”.

Research seminar 

Robotic teammates have the unique advantage and challenge that we have the ability to design them, and while we may know what we desire in a teammate, actually manifesting those characteristics is difficult.  In order to achieve the goal of creating our desired teammate it requires a greater understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the design elements as well as ourselves.  In this presentation Paul Stegall will present prior work on the use of exoskeleton devices for rehabilitation and pathology identification, current work on human abi

Join for a special seminar presentation with Austin Roorda, Professor, UC Berkeley, Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision. 

Abstract 

Presently, economic Demand Response (DR) is procured based solely on energy market characteristics. There is no recognition of DR’s full and unusual impacts on energy markets, and lack of recognition of DR suppliers’ surplus. This incomplete understanding results in inefficient market outcomes and waste.

The Department of Systems Design Engineering is delighted to announce that we will be holding our annual Graduate Symposium again in 2022! The symposium will take place on Thursday, June 23, 2022 in Faculty Hall (E7 7th floor room 7363).

The deadline to register for the Symposium is June 17, 2022.