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Prof. Cynthia Matuszek to chair NSF Robotics PI meeting

To be held in Baltimore, 28-30 April 2024

UMBC Professor Cynthia Matuszek is the PI on a new award from the National Science Foundation to support the 2024 joint Principal Investigator Meeting for NSF's two research programs on robotics...

Posted: February 9, 2024, 10:01 AM

Professor Cynthia Matuszek on Talking to Robots

Research by UMBC's Interactive Robotics and Language Lab

CSEE Professor Cynthia Matuszek gave a talk at UMBC's 2023 GRIT-X event on the need for physical robotic assistants to be able to understand and use human languages. Watch her 11-minute talk on...

Posted: November 19, 2023, 5:59 PM

Talk: Data-Efficient Robot Learning, 10-11am Mon. Oct. 23

Gaussian process models for learning good control strategies

Data-Efficient Robot Learning Marc Deisenroth, University College London 10:00-11:00 am Monday, October 23, 2023 ITE 325b, UMBC Data efficiency, i.e., learning from small datasets, is...

Posted: October 20, 2023, 2:04 PM

Prof. Matuszek on Talking to Robots, GRIT-X 2-4pm, Sat 10/14

The Role of Language in Human-Robot Interaction

CSEE professor Dr. Cynthia Matuszek will be one of this year's GRIT-X event speakers during the 2023 UMBC Homecoming celebration. Each of the nine speakers will give a 10-12 minute talk on their...

Posted: October 11, 2023, 5:35 PM

Prof. Ramana Vinjamuri's research team wins pitch contest

Group developing wearable to detect and help manage stress

UMBC CSEE research group wins a shark tank style pitch contest sponsored by the Maryland New Venture Fellowship Program. UMBC CSEE professor Ramana Vinjamuri leads a research group that won...

Posted: May 11, 2023, 2:18 PM

Robots are everywhere

Improving communication with people advances collaboration

Robots are everywhere - improving how they communicate with people could advance human-robot collaboration 'Emotionally intelligent' robots could improve their interactions with...

Posted: April 27, 2023, 11:11 AM

Prof. Cynthia Matuszek receives prestigious NSF CAREER award

Focus on improving robots' ability to interact with people

CSEE professor Cynthia Matuszek received an NSF CAREER award to support her research on improving the ability of robots to interact with people in everyday environments. The five-year award will...

Posted: March 16, 2022, 1:20 PM

New NSF grant to improve human-robot interaction

Professor Ferraro in UMBC’s Pi2 visualization laboratory talking to a virtual robot. CSEE faculty receive NSF award to help robots learn tasks by interacting naturally with people UMBC...

Posted: August 31, 2020, 9:00 AM