January 13, 2025Breakthroughs in George Mason University's Department of Computer Science may result in more effective use of rescue robots.
Mason students compete with Lighter Than Air robotic shark blimps.
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.
