Robots

Mason students compete with Lighter Than Air robotic shark blimps.

Two George Mason University mechanical engineering senior design teams are finding a way to make the process of removing unwanted contaminants from battlefield equipment safer and more time and cost efficient for our soldiers.

When Mason Engineering professor Cameron Nowzari was an undergraduate, all he wanted to do was design and build robots. He was especially interested in the idea of swarm robotics, in which large teams of robots are designed to cooperatively complete tasks that a single device might not be able to do alone.

A team of four mechanical engineering seniors designed a robot called Thunder Rat to inspect storm drains on campus. The bot gathers information to help Facilities Management employees pinpoint where they need to make a repair or clean out debris.

Jana Košecká's research seeks to open the "eyes" of robots allowing them to perceive the visual world.