New!! WTIU covered the annual Robotics Open House held on May 1. An on-line version of their coverage can be found at: http://www.newsmatters.org/robotics-open-house-showcases-iu-research-projects/

The Cognitive Science Robotics groups led by Professor Randall Beer and Professor Matthias Scheutz invite you to a Robotics Open House, to be held on May 1, from 4:00-7:00pm on the 8th floor of the West Wing of Eigenmann Hall. The Open House will feature presentations about research going on in both groups and will include various live demonstrations on robots and in computer simulations. In particular, you will see CRAMER, the friendly interactive humanoid, an autonomous Segway platform moving to natural language commands, an autonomous robot photographer taking pictures, an autonomous walking hexapod controlled by a neural network, a robotic vocal tract producing natural sounds, a robotic head with attached arm showing binocular vision-guided reaching, a gantry robot, as well as various computer simulations of artificial agents performing tasks in simulated environments, and demos of gesture recognition and natural language processing. The exhibition is free and open to all, so please feel free to bring your family and friends. Refreshments will be served.

• Seth Frey will give a robot demo of a hexapod controlled by a neural network.
• Paul Williams will give a demo on referential communication in embodied dynamical agents.
• Didem Kadihasanoglu will give a simulation demo of visual guidance of an agent intercepting a moving target.
• Mike Brady will show a robot demonstration of a robotic vocal tract.
• Jenett Tillotson will demonstrate her gantry robot.
• You-Wei Cheah will demonstrate gesture recognition and imitation by virtual robot.
• Paul Schermerhorn will demonstrate an autonomous Segway platform controlled by natural language as well as hive-based artificial agents (like bees) performing foraging tasks with and without communication.
• Zach Haga will demonstrate CRAMER the friendly interactive humanoid robot.
• Rehj Cantrell will demonstrate algorithms for natural language processing.
• Michael Ranehart will demonstrate a robotic head with binocular vision used for reaching behavior of the attached arm.