Michigan Robotics

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The University of Michigan Robotics Department.

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

In case the cicadas haven't told you, fall is just around the corner.

See what we've done this summer!

Read the latest Michigan Robotics newsletter:
https://t.co/eFaJIMa6iW

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

We invite applications and nominations for the position of Department Chair.

Find out more about this position and tenure-track faculty positions:
https://t.co/xTeCm1p7So

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

We invite applicants to join our mission to accelerate advances in robotics for the benefit of society.

We're looking for a new Department Chair to lead in defining the discipline of robotics.

We're also hiring tenure track faculty.

Find out more:
https://t.co/xTeCm1p7So

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

We're looking for a new Department Chair.

And tenure-track faculty.

Join us in our mission of creating the next generation of robotics and roboticists as force-multipliers for the benefit of society.

Learn more and apply: https://t.co/xTeCm1pFHW

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

Join our faculty!

@UMRobotics is searching for both:
• A new Department Chair to lead and shape the future of robotics.
• Tenure track faculty in the area of Human-Centered AI.

Get all the information and apply: https://t.co/xTeCm1p7So

[Maani Ghaffari @GhaffariMaani]

SKF is accepted for @NeurIPSConf as spotlight!
Wow, I didn't expect it. Kudos to AC and reviewers for valuing basic research. We feel extra rewarded and motivated!

[Michigan Engineering @UMengineering]

NEW ARTICLE: “Small robot propulsion: low-power twisting enables hopping, swimming.”

The mechanism works on challenging surfaces such as slippery cloth and grass-covered ground, producing frog-like motion. https://t.co/RqRgtviqnS

[Lionel Peter Robert Jr. @lionelrobertjr]

Congrats to @XinYe_Eva for her paper receiving the HFES HART Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award!

#HFES2026 @HFES @umsi @UMRobotics #securityrobot

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

Paper & more videos: https://t.co/wsI372qqvq

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

Do you want a robot that’s too confident?

Or one that knows when to be uncertain about what’s ahead?

New work from @TheLuisMarques and @umicharmlab.

[Lionel Peter Robert Jr. @lionelrobertjr]

Big congrats to @XinYe_Eva on our new paper, Mitigating Human–Security Robot Conflict Through Fairness. We found that distributive and informational fairness reduce conflict and boost security robot acceptance.
@umsi @UMRobotics @BlackInRobotics

https://t.co/awSZ07prpz

[Lionel Peter Robert Jr. @lionelrobertjr]

Congrats to MichealNayebare @kwameporterrob1 @roneglash @audreygbennett @guzdial

New paper: "Understanding online conversations through fractal dimension."

@umsi @UMichiganNews @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics

https://t.co/YEX5qATSKg

[Open Robotics @OpenRoboticsOrg]

We just hit 1000 users on our Open Robotics @zulip server.

Zulip is our open source alternative to Discord.

We migrated late last year and the experience has been nothing short of fantastic; no bots, no spam, and threaded conversations!

⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Lionel Peter Robert Jr. @lionelrobertjr]

Healthcare robots for older adults won’t succeed on novelty alone — design matters. Read our new article on the topic! @CarolQiaoning @Jessie_YangXi @umsi @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics @ieeeras @HRI_Conference

https://t.co/pdgASM4y98

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

It's not yet September, but we have #IROS2026 on the mind.

Get tips for visiting Pittsburgh and the latest robotics research from Michigan roboticists in our IROS summary.

Read:
https://t.co/YvOTJyvRAN

[ARM Lab at University of Michigan @umicharmlab]

We locally calibrate uncertainty in approximate dynamics models! By conditioning on latent observation embeddings, states, and actions, we enable uncertainty-aware planning in u̲n̲s̲e̲e̲n̲ test environments!
More on this @wafr_conf paper w/ @TheLuisMarques @UMRobotics below ⬇

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

Thank you Ilir for spreading the word! We'll be sharing more courses in the future.

[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

The University of Michigan put their entire robotics degree on GitHub.
Not one course. The whole curriculum.

ROB 101 — Computational Linear Algebra for Robotics
ROB 311 — How to Build Robots and Make Them Move
ROB 501 — Mathematics for Robotics
ROB 530 — Mobile Robotics

Every lecture video on YouTube. Every textbook on GitHub. Every problem set, every exam, every line of code.

Professor Jessy Grizzle said it best when they launched it:
"Linear algebra has become the language of computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and autonomy."

So instead of making students wait four semesters of calculus before touching a robot... they built a curriculum that starts with the math that actually matters, applied to real robotics problems from day one.

This is what open education looks like when a top-10 engineering school decides to mean it.

Free. GitHub. YouTube.
📌 [https://t.co/3STu1hzAz2]

Follow for more robotics resources!

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[AHA Science @AHAScience]

Stroke remains a leading cause of adult disability. It is responsible for high personal and public costs, with an annual total of $56.2 billion in the United States, including the cost of acute hospital care, rehabilitation, and days of missed work. https://t.co/ZTjeEm2FQZ

Rehabilitation plays a key role in reducing disability and promoting quality of life after stroke.

The goal of rehabilitation is for patients with stroke to be restored as closely as possible to normal form
and independent functioning, minimizing required assistance and promoting a high quality of life.

✍🏼@alicen_whitaker @CVCatMCW @NeuroscienceMCW @MedicalCollege @dukemedschool @duke_Oto @duke_neurology @duke_brain @dukehealth @AbilityLab @uutah @NeuRRoLab @UMichPMR @umichmedicine @UMichResearch @UMKines @umflintdpt @UMRobotics
@UMneurosciences @UMBME @umichme @IowaPT

[Jayjun Lee @jayjunleee]

What if robot hands could acquire dexterity once, then reuse it to learn downstream tasks much faster?

Introducing ADEPT: a pre-training & post-training paradigm using RL entirely in sim, then zero-shot deploying visuo-tactile policies in the real world.

🔗https://t.co/jdIR1CnG4c with Dex team @NVIDIAAI

[Michigan Robotics @UMRobotics]

@lukas_m_ziegler Thanks, as always, for sharing Lukas! If you're ever near Ann Arbor, come on by for a tour.

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Robotics at University of Michigan is on 🔥!

Plus, it's completely open-sourced and free.

@UMRobotics put their entire robotics program on GitHub.

Everything. Code. Textbooks. Examples. Simulations.

That's what inside:

→ ROB 101: Computational Linear Algebra. Foundation course on the math that actually powers robots.
→ ROB 201: Calculus for the Modern Engineer. They wrote a textbook from scratch (GPL-licensed, on GitHub) because standard calculus doesn't address what engineers need.
→ ROB 204: Introduction to Human-Robot Systems. How humans and robots actually interact.
→ ROB 311: How to Build Robots and Make Them Move. The gap between theory and practice.
→ ROB 501: Mathematics for Robotics. Graduate-level rigor with code examples and interactive Jupyter notebooks.

If you want to learn robotics math from one of the world's best robotics departments, it's free.

Over 2,800 GitHub stars on the math courses alone.

Thousands of people learning robotics, just because it's open for everyone :)

This is how you build the next generation of roboticists.

🔗 Access it here: https://t.co/jpXNy15ad3

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