News

Nov. 15 - One of our Hands, produced with iRobot and Harvard, is featured in the IEEE Spectrum Robotics Blog.

Oct. 4 - Prof. Dollar has been named to the John J. Lee endowed Junior Faculty Chair, the only endowed Junior chair in Engineering, and one of only a few in the whole University. Congrats!

July 31 - The patent for the work involving the SDM Hand that Prof. Dollar did as a PhD Student at Harvard has been issued.

June 19 - The GRAB Lab, teaming with Harvard University and iRobot Corp., have been selected as the top performer in the DARPA Autonomous Robotic Manipulation program, Harware Track, and will be supplying their hands to the winners of the ARM Software Track as well as the GFE Hardware for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Huge success!

Feb 17 - Paul Pounds has begun his job as Lecturer (Aussie version of Assistant Professor) in Mechatronics at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland. Congrats Paul!

July 8 - Ravi Balasubramanian has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University. Congrats Ravi!

June 25 - All three GRAB Lab submissions for IROS 2011 were accepted. Congrats to the authors!

June 2 - Prof. Dollar has been selected to give one of the two yearly "Early Career Spotlight" invited talks at the 2011 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference.

May 23 - Gavrail Tatarliev, a senior MechE student who did his senior thesis in the GRAB Lab received both the Henry Prentiss Becton prize for the top graduating senior in all of Engineering, as well as the McCrosky Prize for the top Mechanical Engineering Senior. Congrats, Gabe!

March 3 - The GRAB Lab's four submissions to the 2011 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics were all accepted. Congrats to all of the authors!

Jan. 7 - All seven GRAB Lab submissions to the 2011 International Conference on Robotics and Automation were accepted. With less than 50% acceptance rate, this is quite the accomplishment. Congrats to all of the authors!

Oct. 28 - Professor Dollar has been awarded the 2011 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award.

Oct. 27 - Our fabrication methods for building robotic hands has been featured on a 3-page 'Demo' article in the Nov/Dec issue of Technology Review Magazine

Aug. 30 - Our work towards grasping and manipulation from an aerial platform, dubbed the Yale Aerial Manipulator, has been covered by Technology Review, Popular Science, and Engadget, among others.

Aug. 25 - Prof. Dollar was named one of Technology Review's TR35, with work by GRAB Lab student Joseph Belter featured on the cover of the Sept/Oct Issue.

Aug. 6 - GRAB Lab PhD student Dan Bersak received a scholarship to attend the CT Space Grant Helicopter Workshop.

May 25 - GRAB Lab Undergraduate Greg Brown received the Donald Warren McCrosky Memorial Prize for "greatest distinction for scholarly achievement in fields related to mechanics and its applications", based partly on his research in the lab.

Aug. 6 - GRAB Lab PhD student Dan Bersak received a scholarship to attend the CT Space Grant Helicopter Workshop.

May 25 - GRAB Lab Undergraduate Greg Brown received the Donald Warren McCrosky Memorial Prize for "greatest distinction for scholarly achievement in fields related to mechanics and its applications", based partly on his research in the lab.

April 6 - GRAB Lab PhD student Joseph Belter has received an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Congrats, Joe!

April 2 - Two GRAB Lab papers were accepted to the ASME IDETC Mechanisms and Robotics Conference - Ravi's paper entitled "External Disturbances and Coupling Mechanisms in Underactuated Hands" and Lael's paper "Fast, accurate models for predicting the compliance of elastic flexure-jointed robots."

March 27 - The GRAB Lab co-hosted 250 students and parents for a Robotics Workshop organized through the Center for Talented Youth.

Feb. 18 - Prof. Dollar has received the 2010 NSF CAREER Award, its "most prestigious award in support of junior faculty". Only a few percent of recipients receive the award in their first year of eligibility. Congrats!

Dec. 29 - Technology Review featured work from our lab in their Year in Robotics article.

Oct. 6 - DesignBoom featured the SDM Hand on their site.

Sept. 28 - Technology Review ran an in-depth article on the SDM hand.

The Harvard Crimson featured the SDM Hand in its Sept. 25 issue.

Sept. 2 - The SDM Hand has been officially licensed to Barrett Technology, who plans to have a product available sometime in 2011.

May 6 - The final project contest for Prof. Dollar's Mechanical Design Course is featured on the Yale Engineering Website.

April 6 - Discovery Channel News quotes Prof. Dollar in a story about Robotic Exoskeletons.