A professor and student with a UAV.

'The demand is so high'

July 30, 2024

CU Engineering launches interdisciplinary robotics program, graduate degrees Engineering graduate students have a new degree option at the University of Colorado Boulder: robotics. The CU Board of Regents has established a master’s and PhD program in robotics. It will provide students an education merging hardware and software engineering, mathematics and...

A human operator at a computer in the Subterranean Challenge.

Failure is Not an Option: Techniques for Autonomous Robots at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

Dec. 8, 2023

When engineers in the robotics research community think of what we'd like autonomous agents to tackle in the future, we often target "dull, dirty, and dangerous" tasks. However, despite a sustained boom in robotics research over the last decade, the number of places we've seen robotics in use for these...

Two underground robots in a cave.

CU Boulder offers new graduate program in robotics

Sept. 20, 2023

The University of Colorado Boulder has started a graduate engineering program in robotics to fill a growing need in an in-demand field. The CU Regents have approved new Master of Science and PhD degree options in robotics that will...

Rob MacCurdy

MacCurdy and collaborators advance research in genetic and evolutionary computation

Aug. 28, 2023

Assistant Professor Robert MacCurdy and his collaborators have won the ACM SIGEVO Impact Award for their outstanding contributions in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. The award recognizes up to three papers a year that were published in the GECCO Conference 10 years earlier and have amassed a high...

3D printed hand

Jayaram part of team that earns Outreach Award for STEM education

Aug. 23, 2023

Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram is part of an interdisciplinary team who have received a University of Colorado Boulder Outreach Award for their efforts to get the next generation of STEM programming into rural K-12 schools in Colorado. New science standards in Colorado require students to learn by working through problems...

Kaushik and student in a field at night

Video: Kaushik Jayaram on Bio-Inspired Engineering

July 12, 2023

Inspired by the natural world, Kaushik Jayaram heads up the Animal Inspired Movement and Robotics Laboratory (AIM-RL) at CU Boulder. The group aims to develop robotic devices that benefit and enhance human capabilities in the areas of search and rescue, inspection and maintenance, personal assistance, and environmental monitoring. As an...

Students observing two robots underground.

CU Boulder team takes home $500,000 in international underground robotics competition

July 12, 2023

A CU Boulder team has taken home third place and $500,000 in prize money in an international competition that sends teams of robots deep underground to conduct search-and-rescue operations. The CU Boulder group, made up of engineers from across the university, took part in the final event of the Defense...

Xudong Chen

New framework will enable better control of large networked systems

July 12, 2023

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are ubiquitous in nature and science, from flocks of birds and neurons in the brain, to social networks and quantum spin systems. That makes the question of how to control these natural or manmade systems a popular problem for engineers. Assistant Professor Xudong Chen wants to develop...

Robotics textbook cover

Robotics professors win award for modern textbook

July 12, 2023

Professors Nikolaus Correll, Bradley Hayes, Christoffer Heckman and Alessandro Roncone have received a recognition award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science for their work, Introduction to Autonomous Robots: Mechanisms, Sensors, Actuators, and Algorithms , an open textbook focusing on computational principles of autonomous robots. The award was created...