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NSF Grant (March 23, 2020)
Profs. Jing Xiao, Marko Popovic, Jie Fu, and Carlo Pinciroli are lead and co-PIs on a new NSF award "Phase II I/UCRC WPI: Center for Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-Being".
Internship (March 16, 2020)
Nathalie Majcherczyk will be joining Amazon Rootics for an internship.
Amazon Robotics Grant (August 1, 2019)
NEST Lab received a grant from Amazon Robotics for a project on federated learning for robot swarms.
Internship (Jul 08, 2019)
Arsalan Akhter will be joining Vecna Robotics for a summer internship.
Internship (Jun 24, 2019)
Nathalie Majcherczyk will be joining GoogleX for a summer internship.
Internship (Jun 4, 2019)
Albert Enyedy will be joining Sikorsky (a Lockheed Martin Company) for a summer internship.
Internship (Jun 4, 2019)
Josh Bloom will be joining MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a summer internship.
Internship (May 13, 2019)
Tyagaraja Ramaswamy will be joining iRobot for a summer internship.
Award (Aug 30, 2018)
Nathalie Majcherczyk received a IROS Student and Developing Countries (SDC) Travel Award to attend IROS 2018 in Madrid and present her paper.
mRobot Grant (August 1, 2018)
NEST Lab received a grant from mRobot Technologies, Shangai for a project on navigation and coordination of multiple robots.
Internship (May 7, 2018)
Nathalie Majcherczyk will be joining Amazon Robotics for a summer internship.
Award (Apr 16, 2018)
Nathalie Majcherczyk received an Inclusion@RSS travel grant to attend RSS 2018 in Pittsburgh and present a poster about her work.
Award (Mar 27, 2018)
Nathalie Majcherczyk received an WPI Graduate Student travel grant to attend IROS 2018 in Madrid and present her paper.
Media Coverage (Aug 14, 2017)
Worcester Channel 3 coverage of research at NEST Lab.
Media Coverage (Aug 8, 2017)
Article of WPI Today about research at NEST Lab.
Award (Apr 5, 2017)
WPI undergrad Brandon M. Sanders awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Brandon will use this scholarship to join NEST Lab over the summer.
Award (Mar 7, 2017)
Nathalie Majcherczyk awarded the first WPI PhD Global Research Scholarship. Nathalie will use this scholarship to visit MIST Lab in Montreal over the summer.
Award (Feb 24, 2017)
WPI undergrad Sierra T. Palmer nominated Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholar. Sierra will use this scholarship to join NEST Lab over the summer.