Yu ("Tony") Zhang

Movo is a helpful robot in setting up your table. It can work collaboratively with humans on various tasks. Movo is capable of learning from human collaborations and construct planning models accordingly to synthesize coordination plans that are "explainable" to humans.

Sprinkles is a robot based on PeopleBot mobile platform that is designed to help with office tasks such as sensing and delivery. It can take simple requests such as "Deliver this Room 566", autonomously plans a path to get to the destination. It is currently deployed on the 5th floor of the CS department. Sprinkles interacts with humans by utilizing facial recognition software, voice prompts and speech recognition, as well as touch input from an onboard web application. It uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor and a built-in ultrasonic sensor for mapping and obstacle avoidance. To satisfy user commands, Sprinkles uses an automated planner to generate a course of action, and executes it.

UR5 is one of the favorites in the lab due to its robustness and accuracy. It is perfect for various manipulation tasks and it is not shy in flexing its capabilities.