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Kosuge & Wang Lab.
Department of Bioengineering and Robotics, Tohoku University

Associate Professor in the EECS Department at MIT.
Member of CSAIL at MIT
Research Interests: distributed robotics, mobile computing, and self-organization.

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Secondary Appointment in Computer Science
Director of the Haptic Exploration Laboratory
Faculty Member of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (Surgical Assistants Thrust Leader, 2004-present)
Johns Hopkins University, 2000-present
Research Interests: Haptic feedback in virtual environments, Human-machine collaborative systems, Reality-based modeling, Robotic fingers and hands; tactile sensing, Medical robotics and surgical assistance, Education and learning using haptics.

Professor of Computer Science, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Research Interests: Intelligent systems in general and span robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.

PhD Student, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence

Assistant Professor Director, IDEA lab, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma
Research Field: machine learning, knowledge representation, integration of learning and teaching

Associate Professor, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Research Interests: the effects of technology on groups and team, the effect of geographic distribution on work teams, cognitive and motivational inhibitors to using and sharing expertise, and the effects of autonomous mobile robots in the work environment, including workers' responses

Roberta is the name of the nice looking female robot.
The identically named project uses the fascination of robots and their development to convey knowledge about engineering and computer science in an exciting way to pupils, in particular to female pupils.

Reference: Monika Müllerburg and Ulrike Petersen, "Robots and Girls - A Promising Alliance", ERCIM News No. 53, April 2003
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw53/muellerburg.html