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🎭🤖Looking for a great event to attend on SATURDAY? Join us for the "Beyond Human: AI, Opera, and the Art of Machine Expression" symposium! Collaboration w/ Michigan Robotics, U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance & Detroit Opera (world-premiere production of Così fan tutte) Register: cart.detroitopera.org/5130/5131

Very happy and proud to announce that my PhD student Tom received the 2025 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research Michigan Robotics Michigan Medicine Michigan Medicine University of Michigan Medical School. Congratulations, Tom!! Well deserved!

“In our research, we’re not just developing technologies—we’re fundamentally rethinking how rehabilitation can be made more accessible and effective for stroke survivors.". - Winner of Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research, Thomas E Augenstein. Read: robotics.umich.edu/news/2025/auge…

News article "Trust issues: Study finds robots struggle to repair broken human trust" on our recent #HRI2025 paper. School of Information Michigan Robotics IEEE RAS IEEE ICRA si.umich.edu/about-umsi/new…

🎭🤖 Scenes from Beyond Human: #AI, Opera, & the Art of Machine Expression — a symposium exploring where artificial intelligence meets music, and theatrical storytelling. Thankful to our collaborators: Michigan Robotics, U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance & Detroit Opera. Check out the highlights! 📸✨

we just concluded the #Design #Retreat in Human-Robot Interaction, where experts from academia & industry gathered for 2 days in Newlab in Detroit to discuss the current challenges and re-invent the future(s) of #Design for #HRI 🥸hridesignretreat.com

On Morning Wave in Busan, Lionel Peter Robert Jr. talks about the rise of the bipedal robots, and the world's first humanoid robot half marathon, and if these humanoids will take our human jobs. Listen: youtube.com/watch?v=A1kxIq…

"Results revealed positive correlations between perceived expert and legitimate power and acceptance and a negative correlation between perceived coercive power and acceptance." deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42…

Robot parade for graduation! #victors2025 #mgograd

I graduated 6 PhD students since last year! Ray Zhang -> Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute (TRI) Tzu-Yuan Lin -> Postdoc at MIT w/ Sangbae Kim Chien Erh Lin -> Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics Tribhi Kathuria -> Lecturer at Michigan Robotics Sangli Teng -> Postdoc at UC

A new paper on human-robot intimacy, Sexual and Emotional Intimacy with Robots:...Review, merges theory and practice to redefine emotional and sexual closeness. School of Information IEEE RAS Michigan Robotics The HRI Conference RO-MAN 2025 #sexrobot Black in Robotics #Robotics dx.doi.org/10.7302/25453

We've just installed a new robotics research water tank. We used 8 water samples from other tanks around the country to start it off. Read more: robotics.umich.edu/news/2025/new-…

A new paper reveals that gender similarity enhances trust when the voice aligns with expected gender roles. Qiaoning(Carol) Zhang Jessie Yang School of Information Michigan Robotics #automatedvehicles #selfdrivingcars #Robots #Robotics #ai #aivoice #genderbias #aibias nature.com/articles/s4159…

ROB 310: Sensors & Signals featured a... • walking crawling Mbot • computerized chessboard • musical abacus • & more!

This research explores passengers' questions about AI-driven vehicles and shows how clear explanations can boost understanding and acceptance of this technology. #CSCW2025 School of Information Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan #selfdrivingcars Michigan Robotics #explainableAI #vehicles arxiv.org/abs/2505.06428

At #ICRA2025? Now (2pm), go paint with a robot from patrícia alves-oliveira's lab in the exhibition hall, arts & robotics space!

We received the #ICRA2025 #HRI #Award for Arts & Robotics on our co-painting robot 🏆 This project shows how arts and robotics can be used as a testbed to create better robots and to discover new knowledge about humans. IEEE ICRA Michigan Robotics DARPA

For #WorldBiodiversityDay, Talia Moore spoke with Paulson Institute on bioinspired robotics: “Bioinspired robotics can bring attention to rare or endangered species and help us see how they've evolved these awesome capabilities.” paulsoninstitute.org/conservation/c…

A special ICRA — a reunion with my former groups and a new beginning with my current one! #ICRA2025 Michigan Robotics Caltech Robotics@GT