5/16/13 Prof. Spenko was interviewed by WBBM news on 3D printing.

4/24/13 Arash Kalantari made the Chicago Tribune (paywall) for his work with FIRST Robotics.

4/13/13 Prof. Spenko and Arash Kalantari gave talks for National Robotics Week at the Museum of Science and Industry

4/8/13 Arash Kalantari won second place in the MMAE poster competition and his FIRST robotics team won the Midwest Regional Competition. Congratulations to everybody.

11/29/12 Arash Kalantari's HyTAQ robot is getting a lot of coverage in the popular media. Check out Media for the links.

News in the Past Year:

7/1/12 Arash Kalantari's walking quadrotor won the Boca Bearings Innovation Award of the month June (here)

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7/ 1/12 Arash Kalantari's walking quadrotor won the Boca Bearings Innovation Award of the month June (here)

7/ 1/12 Arash Kalantari's walking quadrotor won the Boca Bearing Innovation Award of the month June (here)

5/17/12 Chenghui Nie, Gareth Meirion-Griffith, and Don Ruffatto gave talks at the 2012 ICRA conference.

Welcome to the Robotics Lab at IIT

"I'd rather do a failed experiment than one more simulation" - visiting researcher Steve Peters

Our research is in the general area of robotics with specific attention to designing for, understanding, and exploiting the dynamics of mobile systems in the context of challenging environments. We focus on biologically-inspired design, novel vehicle designs, and robot-terrain interaction.

4/15/12 The Robotics Lab gave a demonstration at the Museum of Science of Industry. See this link for more details. Arash Kalantari gave a talk on bio-inspired robotics and Prof. Spenko gave a talk on "How to Rebel Against Your Future Robot Overlords."

4/12/12 Gareth Meirion-Griffith had a paper accepted to the Journal of Terramechanics.

4/12/12 Gareth Meirion-Griffith successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations to Gareth for being the first Ph.D. student to graduate from the lab!

News in the Past Year:\\

4/9/12 Don and Arash each had a paper accepted to the 36th annual ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference to be held here in Chicago this August.

3/31/12 Arash Kalantari's FIRST robotics team just won the industrial design award at the Minnesota regionals. Congratulations to Arash for all of his hard work mentoring the high school students.

3/31/12 Arash Kalatari's FIRST robotics team just won the industrial design award at the Minnesota regionals. Congratulations to Arash for all of his hard work mentoring the high school students.

1/02/12 Congratulations to Don Ruffatto, Chenghui Nie, and Gaerth Meirion-Griffith for having papers accepted to ICRA 2012.

11/17/11 Arash Kalantari passed his Ph.D. qualifying exams.

11/17/11 Arash Kalantari passed is Ph.D. qualifying exams.

Recent News:\\

9/23/11 Gareth Meirion-Griffith won the Planetary Rovers and Mobile Robotics Best Paper award at the 17th International Conference of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems.

6/20/11 Don Ruffatto won a 2011 NASA Graduate Fellowship.

Recent News:

7/16/11 Congratulations to Prof. Spenko on the one year anniversary of beating Gareth in a best of three games in racquetball.

6/26/11 Congratulations to Gareth Meirion-Griffith for the acceptance of his 2011 IROS submission.

6/20/11 Congratulations to Don Ruffatto for winning a 2011 NASA Graduate Fellowship.

We have organized a proposed workshop for the upcoming 2011 Robotics, Science, and Systems Conference. Details can be found here.

We have organized a proposed workshop for the upcoming 2011 Robotics, Science, and Systems Conference. Details can be found [RSSWorkshop|here].

The IIT Robotics Lab is also currently studying the evolving trends in mobile robot design. Please help us by taking 5 minutes to answer 15 short questions about your work. This information will be used to help us understand the relationship between mobility and certain robot characteristics. The results of this study can be disseminated to interested parties - just let us know! To fill it out, please visit:

IIT Robotics Lab Survey

The Robotics Lab is currently looking for exemplary PhD and undergraduate students with an interest in design, control, planning, and mechatronics. Students with design expertise are especially encouraged to apply. Please contact Prof. Matthew Spenko via email.

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The Robotics Lab is currently looking for exemplary PhD and undergraduate students with an interest in design, control, planning, and mechatronics. Students with design expertise are especially encouraged to apply. Please contact Prof. Matthew Spenko via email. At this time, there are no available positions for post doctoral researchers.

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The Robotics Lab is currently looking for exemplary PhD and undergraduate students with an interest in design, control, planning, and mechatronics. Students with design expertise are especially encouraged to apply. Please contact Prof. Matthew Spenko via email. At this time, there are no available positions for post doctoral researchers.

Welcome to the Robotics Lab at IIT.

+Welcome to the Robotics Lab at IIT.+

Here we do research in the general area of robotics with specific attention to designing for, understanding, and exploiting the dynamics of mobile systems in the context of challenging environments. We specifically focus on biologically-inspired locomotion, novel vehicle designs, and robot-terrain interaction.

The Robotics Lab is currently looking for exemplary PhD and undergraduate students with an interest in design, control, planning, and mechatronics. Students with design expertise are especially encouraged to apply. Please contact Prof. Matthew Spenko via email. At this time, there are no available positions for post doctoral researchers.

Welcome to RoboWiki, the wiki set up for The Robotics Laboratory at IIT.

RoboWiki uses PmWiki. The basic editing page describes how to create pages in PmWiki.

You can practice editing in the wiki sandbox.

More information about PmWiki is available from http://www.pmwiki.org .

Welcome to RoboWiki!

RoboWiki uses PmWiki. The basic editing page describes how to create pages in PmWiki. You can practice editing in the wiki sandbox. More information about PmWiki is available from http://www.pmwiki.org .