Associate Director, Industrial Automation Laboratory;
Co-Coordinator, Electro-Mechanical Engineering Option
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of British Columbia
Research Interests: Industrial Robot Motion Planning and Control, Robot-Human Interaction, Intelligent Robotic Systems, Sensor and Device Fusion and Machine Vision for Industrial Work-Cell Applications, Mechatronics

TechBridgeWorld innovates and implements technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world. Through strong collaborations with partners in developing communities, we explore and enhance the role of technology in the globe, focusing on two main principles: sharing expertise to create innovative and locally suitable solutions, and empowerment of indigenous populations to create sustainable solutions. Through these efforts TechBridgeWorld creates technology accessible and relevant to all.

Beca FPI/FPU (Generalitat i MEC)
Becari FPI de la Uji
TI2032DI
964 387046
Universitat Jaume I

Professor/a Titular d'Universitat
Dpt. d'Enginyeria i Ciència dels Computadors
Ciència de la Computació i Intel.ligència Artificial
TI2122DD
964 728303
Universitat Jaume I

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

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

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

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

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.

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.