Andy McEvoy’s research on variable stiffness materials was selected for $1000 Beverly Sear’s Graduate Student research grant. Congratulations Andy!

Our team has been accepted for competition at the 2013 RASC-AL Forum, for their abstract titled: “Bioregenerative Life Support Systems (BLSS) for Long Duration Human Space Missions.” Other graduate teams are from Georgia Tech, University of Maryland, Drexel University, and the Washington University in Saint Louis.

Nikolaus presented the paper  ”A One-hour Curriculum to Engage Middle School Students in Robotics and Computer Science using Cubelets” (joint work with Chris Wailes and Scott Slaby) at the 11th Int. Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems in Baltimore, MD. The presentation is available here.

Date:: Thu, October 4, 3:30pm – 4:30pm

Where: ECCR 265 (map)

Robots are computers that are extended by sensing, actuation, and communication capabilities. Similarly, devices that were previously limited to actuation or sensing alone, such as vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, cars or everyday gadgets and household appliances are becoming robots by increasing their sensing [...]

From CU Connections:

http://connections.cu.edu/news/five-questions-for-nikolaus-correll/

From http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/aug/HQ_12-280_Early_Career_Grants.html:

Universities Go to Space: NASA Announces Early Career Faculty Space Tech Research Grants

WASHINGTON — NASA has announced the selection of 10 research efforts from the agency’s inaugural Space Technology Research Opportunities for Early Career Faculty solicitation. NASA will provide grants of as much as $200,000 per year for as long as three [...]

At the occasion of Boulder-based startup Modrobotics raising its first round of venture capital, “Boulder is for Robots” that we organize together with Brad Feld has been mentioned on cnn.com.

Nikolaus co-organizes a workshop on Vertical Farming to be hold from September 26-27, 2012, at the conference center of the University of Maryland.