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Topcu to Work with Consortium Selected to Pioneer New Autonomy Capabilities

Oden Institute Professor Ufuk Topcu will participate in the new U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Center of Excellence for Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments.

My crafting makes me a better engineer—but it took me a while to realize

Texas Robotics graduate student, Christina Petlowany, shares how her experiences with crafting have helped her skills as an engineer. 

Dr. Scott Niekum Receives Young Investigator Award

Faculty Spotlight: Joydeep Biswas

Joydeep Biswas is a core faculty member at Texas Robotics leading research on long-term autonomy through his research group, the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory (AMRL)

AMRL's focus is working to enable robots to navigate and reason in unstructured human environments over extended periods of time..  Recently, AMRL's research culminated in an autonomous deployment on a trail through Eastwoods Park in Austin, Texas. The robot was able to navigate the terrain autonomously, using the insights it had learned from human demonstrations and its own observations.