This month, my PhD student Guangping attended the Humanoids 2024 conference in Nancy, France, thanks to the Kanako Miura Travel Award. She is already reaching for the stars. #humanoids2024 #mecharithmlab #slu

Team Mecharithm Lab at SLU #mecharithmlab #slu

Joel and Pascal, two outstanding undergraduate researchers at the Mecharithm Lab, attended the 2024 IEEE BigData Conference in Washington, DC. They presented their poster, and their accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings. #BigData2024

Joel's paper titled "EMG-TransNN-MHA: A Transformer-Based Model for Enhanced Motor Intent Recognition in Assistive Robotics" is published in the proceedings of the 2024 IEEE BigData conference in Washington DC: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum… #assistiverobotics #intentiondetection

Learn Mechatronics hands-on and for free with step-by-step instructions in my Mechatronics course on GitHub. Search mechatronics-course on GitHub or click the link below: github.com/madibabaiasl/m… #mechatronics

Way to go, Pascal! #mecharithmlab #slu #goldwaterscholarship

Project 1 Part 1 implementation in my Mechatronics class at SLU. Implemented by Ethan and Nhat. Guide: github.com/madibabaiasl/m… #mechatronics #mobilerobot #motioncontrol

Obstacle-aware Navigation with Maximum-clearance Path Selection by Ethan and Nhat in my Mechatronics class Guide: github.com/madibabaiasl/m… #navigation #mobilerobot #mechatronics

Obstacle-aware Navigation with Maximum-clearance Path Selection by Matt and AJ at my Mechatronics class Guide: github.com/madibabaiasl/m… #navigation #mobilerobot #mechatronics

Had the honor of giving a talk at SLU’s AI in Medicine conference. #aiinmedicine #saintlouisuniversity

If you are attending ICRA 2025, let's meet up! #ICRA2025

Last month we had several fun activities in celebration of achievements or reaching milestones. The first picture is from a scape room and the second one is from grants farm during President Pestello’s farewell event.

Is it just me, or are modern laptops junk? 2016 MacBook Pro → dead motherboard 2023 MacBook Pro (work) → slowed down 2025 Dell (Ubuntu) → HDMI/freezing issues 2025 Dell (lab) → motherboard failed out of the box I used to run a machine for 10 yrs. Now? Lucky if it lasts 2-3!

Starting a video series for robotics learning: youtube.com/watch?v=C51S9C… #roboticslearning #robotics

High-level intro to ROS2 is published on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/LI4NexFDF4E #ros2 #robotoperatingsystem