The second Seminar was last Wednesday July 3th, and was led by Guiseppe Vietri and Maylem Gonzales. Both discussed their work within the telebot project, starting with Guiseppe and his Core Manager for the Telebot, through which all movements and system updates occur. He also taught the attendees all about the classes and methods needed to update all other systems of the Telebot. Afterwards, Maylem went over the progress of the balancing system team. She also explained in full detail all the systems and the problems encountered throughout the development stages, as well as future developments of the system. Given technical problems, we were not able to take many pictures of the second presentation. More of these Seminars will come later today.
The Discovery Lab started to host closed door seminars for the Discovery Lab members. The events started yesterday with a presentation by Antonio Triana and Justin Rodriguez. The seminars cover current projects’ development, ideas, and possible future work. The seminars are given with the intention of allowing all the teams to immerse in all the other sections of the Telebot and know about other projects currently happening at the lab. Antonio Triana talked about his developments regarding the hand control and design, and explained the design of others to compare and contrast. Mr Triana also went on to explain very interesting possible adjustments and improvements to the system that will come in handy for the purpose of the Telebot. Justin Rodriguez explained the work of his team regarding a new project; an Emergency Response Bot designed after recent crisises. These seminars are done with the hope of improving each presentation and at some point give a much greater and complete seminar to the public. There will be more seminars coming up this week and the next.
As part of what will most likely be a very great research collaboration with the Physical Therapy Department, some of the members of the Discovery Lab received a tour of the Motion Tracking Lab by Dr. Leonard Elbaum. The tour was very well conducted and gave the members of the Discovery Lab a very clear idea of the future steps to take in our research. The software in the Physical Therapy Research Lab is fascinating and their solid hardware will come in handy for further developing the Telebot, as well as to test the quality of our research. The tour was a great, eye opening experience that will hopefully commence a great research collaboration between the Discovery Lab and the Physical Therapy Department.
The Discovery Lab activities will be taking a break from July 4th to July 7th to enjoy the festivities and relax after the past few extra stress-filled weeks. Enjoy the long weekend and be safe!
From Thursday June 13 to Saturday June 15, the Discovery Lab hosted an event sponsored by Google. The event is Computer Science for High school Students (CS4HS) and it was a complete success.
The event consisted of several lectures on programming and hardware given by Dr Jong-Hoon Kim and Dr Nagarajan Prabakar, as well as hands on exercises that led to the final project; a remotely controlled robot. There were a total of 24 attendees, each of which was given a kit with all the parts necessary for the project. The attendees not only were taught about the hardware and software needed for the event, but had also the chance to see the Discovery Lab from within.
Although the attendees to the event had many questions and technical problems with the hardware and software, the event went on smoothly thanks to the help of the many volunteers that aided in the process. All the volunteers are members of the Discovery Lab, which allowed the students to have a more personal contact with the lab’s researchers.
Once the event was finished, the attendees were given a certificate of completion as a small memento of the event. Even once the workshop had concluded, many students and teachers wanted to stay and keep working on their projects, proof of their involvement and liking of the event.
Hopefully, more workshops like this one are on their way for the Discovery Lab.
The Discovery Lab will be hosting an event for High School Students sponsored by Google. The event will be taking place starting on Thursday June 13 and will continue until Saturday June 11. Although it took some time, the participants have already been chosen and the event is completely full by now. The event will teach the students how to work with hardware such as the Raspberry Pi and scripting languages related to the hardware being taught. The Discovery Lab will provide breakfast and lunch for the participants, as well as all the materials needed for the Workshop. The members of the Discovery Lab are looking forward to this event.
The Telebot team has a new video update about the improvements the Discovery Lab has performed on the project. The video talks about the many teams that are arduously working on their sections of the Telebot and their jobs. We also present some of the results achieved in the project. Although there is still a long way to the completion of the project, these advancements are proof that our end goal is closer than ever.
On thursday May 16, representatives of Intel Corporation paid a visit to our campus. The representatives visited the Engineering Center and took a tour of the Engineering and Computer Science Building in the Modesto A Maidique Campus (MMC). They talked about the life of an Intel worker and its benefits. They also encouraged student her to apply for a position in their company. While they visited they also gave away two laptops thought a raffle.
When visiting the Discovery Lab, the Intel representatives were introduced to several of the members of our team, as well as the Director or our lab, Dr Jong-Hoon Kim. When talking about about one of aour current projects, the Telebot, the Intel representatives congratulated us on our work and encoraged us to continue our work. Although short, the event was very informative and encouraging for all of us. We are looking forward to another event with leading corporations like Intel.
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