Lab News

March 2022	David Watkins on winning team for 1st Place in NeurIPS Minecraft Challenge
April 2020	CS Department Honors Iretiayo Akinola receives Paul Michelman Award David Watkins receives CS Service Award Award Jeff Hu receives CS Scholarship award
November 2019	Harlem Childrens Zone High School Students visit the Lab
May 2019	Awards to Lab members: David Watkins-Valls: CS service award for service as Ph.D. representative to the department. Jingxi Xu: Andrew P. Kosoresow Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service
May 2019	GraspIt! Turns 20! Read the Original ICRA 1999 paper. Many thanks to Andrew Miller, Matei Ciocarlie, Jon Weisz, Corey Goldfeder, Jake Varley, Iretiayo Akinola and David Watkins-Valls for keeping the GraspIt! Github vibrant and up-to-date.
November 29, 2018	CMU Robotics Institute lecture by Prof. Allen: Multimodal Geometric Learning for Grasping
September 10, 2018	\ David Watkins receives Army Research Lab fellowship
March 5, 2018	Prof. Allen receives Google Faculty Research Award
Jan. 10, 2018	Ireti Akinola named Microsoft Phd Fellow
Ocotber 19, 2017	Frontiers in Robotics Conference Highlights Columbia Research and Innovation
March 30, 2017	Farewell lunch for Chaiwen Chou moving to Amazon
April 20, 2017	Professor Allen named 1 of 20 Data Science Professors to Know
April 26, 2016	Robert Ying wins Theodeore Bashkow Undergraduate Research award
February 23, 2016	Yinxiao Li's video of his ICRA 2016 paper Multi-Sensor Surface Analysis for Robotic Ironing has received a lot of press! Daily Mail, UK Nvidia Vice Motherboard Reddit See Yinxiao's Laundry Robot page
February 23, 2016	Matei Ciocarlie wins Alfred Sloan Research Fellowship
Dec. 16, 2015	Robert Ying wins CRA Undergraduate Research Award Honorable Mention
May 8, 2015	Watch the Lab's first drone flight!
April 30, 2015	Matei Ciocarlie wins ONR Young Investigator Award
April 21, 2015	Ben Shababo wins Hertz Fellowship
April 20, 2015	Jon Weisz wins Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence
April 20, 2015	Paul Blaer appointed Lecturer in Discipline at Columbia CS Department
April 20, 2015	Danfei Xu wins Theodeore Bashkow Undergraduate Research award
January 14, 2015	CBS News visits the Columbia Robotics Lab
December 16, 2014	Danfei Xu wins 2015 Computing Research Assocation Undergraduate Reserch Award
December 5, 2014	Columbia School students visits the Robotics Lab
December 4, 2014	Oxbridge Academy students visit the Robotics Lab
November 2014	Columbia CS Department named #3 most innovative by recent poll
September 2014	Robotic Grasping System: Helping the Severely Disabled Take Back Control
September 18, 2014	Former lab member Joseph Del Preto, SEAS 2013, wins Best Paper Award award at IROS 2014: Printable Robots (video), paper
August 1, 2014	Dr. Matei Ciocarlie is now a Professor in the Columbia Mechanical Engineering Department
July 24, 2014	Columbia Robotics ranked in top ten for Best Universities for Robotics in the US
July 1, 2014	Dr. Austin Reiter is now a Research Professor in the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins University
May 29, 2014	Jake Varley awarded NSF EAPSI scholarship to study in Korea
May 17, 2014	Three papers accepted at IROS 2014 Jonathan Weisz, Alexander G. Barszap, Sanjay S. Joshi, and Peter K. Allen, Single Muscle Site sEMG Interface for Assistive Grasping Austin Reiter, Alexandros Sigaras, Dennis Fowler and Peter K. Allen, Surgical Structured Light for 3D Minimally Invasive Surgical Imaging Yinxiao Li, Yan Wang, Michael Case, Shih-Fu Chang, Peter K. Allen, Real-time Pose Estimation of Deformable Objects Using a Volumetric Approach
May 22, 2014	Columbia Robotics hosts New England Manipulation Symposium
Nov. 2010	Gary Kasparov and Peter Thiel visit Columbia robotics Lab (go to 8 minute mark on video)

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