University of Southern California




July 2007
The NAMOS project was featured in the Autumn 2007 issue of the USC Trojan Family Magazine.

June 2007
Congratulations to Gabe Sibley on passing his PhD defense.

The NAMOS project was featured on the USC Viterbi School of Engineering website and in the Daily Breeze.

April 2007
Congratulations to Srikanth Saripalli on passing his PhD defense.

Congratulations to Sameera Poduri on winning the USC WiSE merit fellowship.

The NAMOS project's experiments in boat autonomy at Redondo Beach are featured in The Log.

September 2006
Gaurav Sukhatme is one of the winners of an Okawa foundation research grant in 2006. The USC school of engineering ran a brief story about it.

August 2006
Popular Science magazine ran a story on the robot mapping work (local copy) done by Denis Wolf.

May 2006
The Idlewild Town Crier ran a story on the NAMOS and NIMS experiments at Lake Fulmor, which also featured the USC AVATAR.

February 2006
Congratulations to Denis Wolf on passing his PhD defense.

January 2006
Congratulations to Stefan Hrabar on passing his PhD defense.

December 2005
Congratulations to David Naffin on passing his PhD defense.

October 2005
Weekend America host Barbara Bogaev talks with Gaurav Sukhatme about the future of robotic vehicles on the weekend of the DARPA Grand Challenge.

September 2005
California Connected visits the James Reserve field research station in the San Jacinto Mountains, where a network of robots and sensors developed by the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing are monitoring the forest. The NAMOS project is featured.

July 2005
Congratulations to Mohammed Rahimi on passing his PhD defense.

June 2005
We were happy to be involved with the organization of the inaugural edition of the Robotics: Science and Systems conference which was held at MIT from June 7-11.

March 2005
Congratulations to Maxim Batalin and Boyoon Jung on passing their PhD defenses.

June 2004
The Scientific America article, Smart Sensors to Network the World, includes USC Robomote.

May 2004

The USC Helicopter project is featured on CT (Magazine fur Computer Technik), an important german computer magazine.

April 2004
The USC Helicopter project wins the 2004 Design Contest organized by the PC/104 consortium. Details on the PC/104 website, Linux devices, and Slashdot.

December 2003
Congratulations to Kale Harbick, winner of the 2004 Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award and Trophy. The award carries a cash prize of $1,000 and inscription of the recipient's name on a memorial trophy which is housed in the USC Graduate School. This award will be presented at the Academic Honors Convocation in March 2004.

'Have Segway, Will Travel', an article by Eric Mankin, USC News featured RESL research on the USC home page
November 2003
Boyoon, Milo, and Dan's work on robot recharging is featured on robots.net.

The USC Segway work is featured in an AP story, and on Slashdot.

October 2003
The USC Robomote was featured on the National Science Foundation's publicity page.

June 2003
The lab's helicopter work was covered in the USC daily newspaper, the Daily Trojan.

Interview with Gaurav Sukhatme by Gia Scafidi

An interview with Gaurav Sukhatme in the Dallas Morning News (online, local).

April 2003
RESL and Player featured on linuxdevices.com in an article entitled Mobile robots as gateways into wireless sensor networks.

Sajid Siddiqi wins the first prize in the Physical Sciences, Math & Engineering division of the Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work at USC. The prize carries a $500 award

February 2003
Robots to the Rescue, an article by Gia Scafidi, USC News featured RESL research on the USC home page

December 2002
Gabe Sibley and Mike Poole featured in NASA/JPL spotlight

November 2002
Robots, Robots, Everywhere, an article in USC Chronicle, featured RESL research

September 2002
An interview with Gaurav Sukhatme in LA Weekly's Best of LA

March 2002
The March issue of CACM has a special section on robotics edited by Gaurav Sukhatme and Maja Mataric. [PDF]

February 2002
The USC Autonomous Helicopter is the topic of "Designers Take Robots out of Human Hands", an article in the Technology Section, New York Times (2/28)

February 2002
USC Robomote is named NASA's cool robot of the week

November 2001
USC AVATAR featured in 'Future Wars' on the The Learning Channel

May 2001
USC Computer Science students work on new embedded device systems, featured in Wired magazine




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