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New NRI grant

November 2, 2020
Prof. Stefano Carpin is the PI for a four-year $1M grant from the USDA/NIFA for the project "Collaborative Resaerch: Mobile Robotic Lab for In-Situ Sampling and Measurement." This project is funded as part of the NSF led National Robotics Initiative and is in...

New CS4All grant

August 29, 2020
Stefano Carpin is Co-PI on a new NSF grant part of the CS4All program. Led by Prof. Angelo Kyrilov (PI) and in collaboration with Chelsea Arnold (Co-PI), the two year project aims at improving the pipeline of CS educators in the Central Valley.

UC Merced robotics joins new NSF ERC center on IoT4Ag

August 4, 2020
The National Science Foundation has awarded an Engineering Research Center (ERC) grant entitled, NSF ERC for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag), to a consortium of universities led by Penn along with UC Merced, Purdue, and Florida.  Prof. Stefano Carpin serves as co...

Jose Luis Susa Rincon Defends his PhD Dissertation

May 6, 2020
Jose Luis Susa Rincon has successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled Probabilistic Constrained Decision Making for Robots Exploring, Mapping, and Navigating Indoor Environments. Congratulations to Jose!

Two papers to appear at ICRA2020

January 30, 2020
Two papers have been accepted for publication at ICRA 2020 in Paris: C. Diaz Alvarenga, N. Basilico, S. Carpin. "Multirobot Patrolling against Adaptive Opponents with Limited Information." Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. F. Betti...

RAPID featured on Science Friday

July 12, 2019
The RAPID project was featured in the radio show Science Friday. More details can be found here.

R-Article Accepted

May 20, 2019
Our paper "Time Constrained Exploration Using Toposemantic Models: a Reproducible Approach," has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. Coauthored by Jose Luis Susa Rincon, this is the first ever reproducible paper (also known as R-Article) to be...

The Future of Machines

April 16, 2019
Checkout the new article The Future of Machines https://uc-merced.foleon.com/public-relations/the-future-of-machines/the-future-of-machines/

Keynote talk at SusTech 2018

October 1, 2018
I will give a keynote talk at the 6th Annual IEEE Conference on Technology for Sustainability (Long Beach, November 2018).

Best Conference Paper Award at CASE 2018

August 23, 2018
We won the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE): Multi-Robot Routing Algorithms for Robots Operating in Vineyards  by Thomas C. Thayer, Stavros Vougioukas, Ken Goldberg, Stefano Carpin [pdf]

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