In the RoboCup@Home competition, we advanced to the second round and did specifically well on the "General Purpose Service Robots" task portion, in which a robot needs to listen to verbal requests and execute them. The team leader, UTCS Ph.D. student Yuqian Jiang, was rewarded the Silvia Coradeschi award "for a young female RoboCup student, with distinguishing research."

Alexa Izquierdo is a 3rd-year Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently in the Robotics Minor program and hopes to continue to pursue robotics in the future.  

The influence of robotics in our daily lives is becoming increasingly prominent, evident in the self-driving cars navigating the streets of Austin and robot-assisted service on display in some restaurants. No one understands these developments better than the robotics researchers who are at the forefront of advancing these technologies. Among them is Dr. Luis Sentis, a Texas Robotics core faculty member who has long contemplated the future of robotics in society.

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As a University of Texas Alumnus, Dr. Nick Fey is driven by a passion for changing the world through engineering. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s, a master’s, and a doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering. He pursued postdoctoral research in the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.