Professor Ken Goldberg Student researchers for these projects need a basic engineering background in IEOR, CS, or ME, and superior programming skills. A minimum of six hours per week is required. Graphic design skills may also be helpful. Robot Grasping New research is needed for automation, particularly for grippers and grasp points where automated machines must capture a part in a desired position and orientation, hold it as it is transported and inserted, and release it accurately at a desired destination. Working with experts from Adept Technology and Ford Motor Co, we are developing a new robot gripper technology to meet this challenge.
Work involves programming robots and doing grasping experiments with sample parts.
In this project we will design and develop a new WWW Telerobotic system. Student researchers will work in the Alpha Lab with PC-based WWW servers, digital cameras, and robots.