Welcoming robots into our home and businesses, and how to get there. w/ Daniel Lofaro

Daniel Lofaro’s PhD project made its public debut on an unlikely stage. His research in end-effector velocity control of non-planted robots (robotic throwing) enabled his HUBO humanoid robot subject to throw out the first pitch of the 2012 Major League Baseball season in front of 45,186 fans.

Daniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University, and the director of the laboratory Lofaro Labs Robotics which is apart of the international laboratory group called the DASL Autonomous Systems Lab Group (DASL Group).

Additionally, he's a affiliate faculty at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) within the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR). As a NSF-EAPSI and ONR-SFRP Fellow, he received his doctorate from the ECE Department at Drexel University in 2013 under the guidance of Dr. Paul Oh. He was the Research Lead of the DARPA Robotics Challenge team DRC-Hubo from 2012 to 2014.

Host: Per Sjöborg, Robots in Depth is supported by Aptomica.

His research focus is in the overarching field of real-world robotics. Within this his research interests include Swarm Robotics, Emergent Behaviors, Robot Design, Real-World Human/Robot Interaction, Humanoid Robotics, Complex Control Systems, Secure Robotics, Cloud Robotics, Unique Musical Instrument Design, and Real-Time Systems. Research interests include Complex Control Systems and Robotics with most recent ventures relating to Robot Design and Cloud Robotics. Daniel's dissertation title is Unified Algorithmic Framework for High Degree of Freedom Complex Systems and Humanoid Robots.

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