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last updated 06 Oct 2009
 
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10-2009

Fall: involved in coteaching ME310a and running the ME393 Seminar on Bio-inspired and Human-Interactive Robotics.

Winter: Teaching ME112 Mechanical Engineering Design

Spring: ME310c and ME393 Biomimetics Seminar.

Research on bio-inspired robots and on haptics and tactile sensing for robotics and portable wireless devices.


Sometimes the best place to land is a wall...
12-2008

Fall: involved in coteaching ME310a and running the ME393 Seminar on Mobile Manipulation.
Winter: Teaching ME112 Mechanical Engineering Design
Spring: ME21N Renaissance Machine Design and ME393 Biomimetics Seminar.

Research on bio-inspired robots and and on haptics and tactile sensing for robotics and portable wireless devices.


climbing with hierarchical, directional structures
9-2007

Teaching E310abc in Fall, Winter, Spring, and ME393 Biomimetics Seminar.

Research on climbing robots and climbing people, and on haptics and tactile sensing for robotics, for rehabilitation and for portable wireless devices.

9-2006

Teaching ME310abc in Fall, Winter, Spring, and ME21N, Renaissance Machine Design in the Winter quarter.

Work on Climbing robots continues, along with some new work on haptics and tactile sensing for wireless applications.

5-2006

Back on campus for 2005-2006. Teaching ME310 in the Fall and Spring, and ME112 in the Winter quarter.

Work on Climbing robots continues, focusing now on gecko-inspired dry adhesive climbing for glass and other smooth surfaces.

4-2005 Work on the Climbing Robots continues. See some latest links at right.


I am now installed in Italy at the Stanford Florence Campus teaching courses on The Art of Engineering and the Engineering of Art in Renaissance Italy and Design for Well Being in 21st Century Tuscany. 		SpinybotII on campus
SpinybotII at large on campus.
ICAR 2005, Seattle, WA, July.
9-2004 Work on the Climbing Robots continues and there is a new, small project from MediaX on wireless tactile display.


During Fall and Winter I'll be teaching ME310/E310. In Winter 2005 I'm teaching a Freshman Seminar ME21N: Renaissance Machine Design. In spring I'll be at the Stanford Florence Campus. 		iSprawl running outside
iSprawl on ScienCentral News, July 8, 2004. Possibly the fastest legged robot at 15 body-lengths/second.
9-2003 We have a new research project on bio-inspired Climbing Robots.

Meanwhile, work continues on Dexterous Telemanipulation and teaching ME310abc.
 Quicktime movie Sprawlettes featured on CBS Evening News May 2003.
9-2002  

Back at Stanford and gearing up for ME310.

Research projects: Biomimetics, Dexterous Manipulation, SDM for mechatronic systems.

Sprawlita and siblings featured in
Next@CNN segment Biomimetic Robots and Metropolis Magazine Design Ideas for the 21st Century.
3-4-2002
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20-6-2002		 Starting a new course on Design and Prototyping of Micromechatronic Systems at SSSA in Pisa. Theme of course is small, three-dimensional electromechanical prototypes using a mix of SDM and lithographic technologies. In a week or two, the course will move to the new facilities in Pontedera.  
9-30-2001
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8-31-2002		 During the 2001/2002 academic year I will be on sabbatical. During the spring and summer I will be in Pisa, on a Fulbright Chair at the Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna. I will be teaching and doing research with Prof. Paolo Dario's lab.


  View from the Leaning Tower
11-2000

Video of Bob Full and our robots from Australian QuantumTV program.
These people did a good job of explaining Bob's ideas and how they've inspired our robots.

[get Quicktime player]

 


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