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CU Boulder Mechanical Engineering

Robotic bees? These bio-inspired robots from the PRAISe Lab redefine the boundaries of autonomy and sustainability.

Maryland Today

A team led by University of Maryland computer scientists invented a camera mechanism that improves how robots see and react to the world around them.

UMD Computer Science

Singh is developing a framework for enhanced autonomy in tiny robots inspired by the efficient perception systems of small animals.

UMD Robotics

Drawing inpiration from these living organisms, Chahat Deep Singh has centered his research around designing compact, minimalistic, yet effective perception systems.

Science Robotics Cover

Estimating Uncertainty — A Deep Learning Framework for Estimating Uncertainty in Optical Flow for Real-Time Control of Robots. Utilizing only uncertainty in optical flow obtained from a monocular RGB camera enables real-time performance on resource-constrained robots.

BBC Earth

It sounds like a sci-fi dystopia, swarms of robot bees flying around our previously quaint countrysides. But could they actually be part of the solution and help to revolutionise farming?

Crowd Supply

The team showcases three different applications of this system for quadrotor navigation: flying through a forest, flying through an unknown static or dynamic gap, and accurate 3D pose detection of an independently moving object.

Mashable / Futurism

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Zurich equipped a drone with event cameras and a sonar system to make it capable of detecting and dodging objects thrown at it.

IEEE Spectrum / NVIDIA

Researchers at the University of Maryland are adapting the techniques used by birds and bugs to teach drones how to fly through small holes at high speeds.