UBC lab welcomes a new “soft touch” mobile robot system
UBC’s Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (CARIS) — led by Mechanical Engineering Prof. Elizabeth Croft – has acquired a new human friendly robot. UBC is the first Canadian university to work with the PR2 model from Willow Garage, a U.S.-based developer of personal robot open source software and hardware. Dubbed Charlie by the […]
UBC mechanical engineering alumna Parisa Bastani receives Commonwealth Doctoral Scholarship
Parisa Bastani (BASc’09, MECH) has been awarded the Commonwealth Doctoral Scholarship from the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP), an international program in which member governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. She is one of two recipients of the scholarship this year; candidates are selected from seventeen Commonwealth countries. Bastani […]