Braden done!

Dr. Braden Stenning successfully defended his PhD thesis on Monday, November 19.  Prof. Alonzo Kelly, a renowned expert on path planning from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, was the external examiner.  Braden will be staying on at UTIAS as a postdoc working on a cliff-descending robot concept for field geology applications.  Congrats and great work, Braden!

Robots Rule!

This weekend was the annual Robots Rule event at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto.  We brought our Clearpath Husky A200 robot and demonstrated stereo visual teach and repeat throughout the event.  We also took the Husky down to visit the impressive Curiosity full-size mockup in the new space exploration exhibit, which is worth seeing and only on until January 1, 2013.