Current Research Topics Include:
The field of robotics has expanded tremendously since its early focus on industrial robots, and now includes very diverse topics such as autonomous vehicles, medical robots, smart sensor networks, microrobots, robot vacuum cleaners, sentry robots, and pet robots. Robotics technology is embedded in many devices which are not usually thought of as robots. A knowledge of how to model motion and an emphasis on real-time computation finds application in graphics, animation, and computer games. Due to the extraordinary breadth of disciplines that robotics encompasses, roboticists have been described as universal engineers, able to apply their expertise and adapt to a wide variety of topics.
M.S. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Track
Robotics at the University of Utah
Faculty & Researchers
Jake Abbott, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research: wireless magnetic biomedical microrobots, robotic assistance for cochlear implants, teleoperation of novel systems
Lab: TeleRobotics Laboratory
Thomas Henderson, Professor of School of Computing
Research: computer vision, mobile robots, smart sensor networks
John Hollerbach, Professor of School of Computing, Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research: haptic interfaces, locomotion interfaces, robot calibration and control, medical robotics, human arm movement
Director: Robotics Track
Stephen Jacobsen, Distinguished Professor of Mechanic Engineering, Research Professor in School of Computing
Research: robotics, medical imaging, MEMS
President: Sarcos Inc.
Stacy Bamberg, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research: bioinstrumentation, gait analysis, aging, rehabilitation engineering, medical therapeutics
Director: BioInstrumentation Laboratory
Stephen Mascaro, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research: robotics and mechatronics, system dynamics and control, haptics, sensors and actuators, human-machine systems
Director: BioRobotics Laboratory
Sanford Meek, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research: biocontrol systems, robotics
Mark Minor, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research: design, modeling, and control of mobile robot systems, e.g., ground based modular systems and underactuated climbing robots
Director: Robotic Systems Laboratory
William Provancher, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research: haptics, tactile sensing and feedback, climbing robots, meso-scale manufacturing and embedded mechatronics
Director: Haptics & Embedded Mechatronics Laboratory
Thomas Schmid, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjoint Assistant Professor of School of Computing
Research: wireless, embedded, and networked systems
Wireless Embedded Sensing Systems Lab
Jur van den Berg, Assistant Professor of School of Computing
Research: robotics, virtual environments
