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Beth Humberd and Scott Latham pose with a robot at the NERVE Center

10/24/2018 Featured Story

Are Robots Coming for Your Job?

Manning School of Business faculty Scott Latham and Beth Humberd examined four ways that jobs will respond to automation in a research article published in MIT Sloan Management Review.

10/24/2018 Featured Story

PEZ dispensers on a shelf in Holly Yanco's office

7/6/2018 Lowell Sun In The News

In This UML Office, PEZ Dispenses More Than Candy

Distinguished University Professor Holly Yanco dispensing fun and science.

7/6/2018 Lowell Sun In The News

6/19/2018 Press Release

Teaching Robots to Sort Out their Issues

UMass Lowell researchers are working to give humanoid robots and other autonomous systems the ability to evaluate how well they can perform tasks or why they can’t complete jobs.

6/19/2018 Press Release

5/23/2018 Featured Story

Researchers to Develop Self-Evaluating Robots

Robotics experts from UMass Lowell, Carnegie Mellon University, Brigham Young University and Tufts University are working together to give humanoid robots and other autonomous systems the ability to assess themselves in terms of how well they can perform a given task.

5/23/2018 Featured Story

Workers set up a lab at TURI's new location

1/22/2018 Featured Story

Plenty of Movers and Shakers over Winter Break

The NERVE Center and Toxics Use Reduction Institute both moved to new homes over winter break, while Facilities Management steamed ahead on renovations at Perry and Pasteur halls and on the construction of University Suites Dining.

1/22/2018 Featured Story

1/19/2017 Lowell Sun In The News

UMass Lowell Hands Extend Reach of ARM

UMass Lowell, home to one of the most advanced robotics-testing centers in the nation, will be a partner in a $250 million robotics institute -- with the goal of producing new technologies and opportunities for workers in advanced manufacturing.

1/19/2017 Lowell Sun In The News

12/13/2016 Featured Story

Valkyrie Robot to Assist in Nuclear Facility Cleanup

Thanks to a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy, a team of robotics experts is studying ways in which a humanoid robot can help clean up America’s decommissioned nuclear production facilities.

12/13/2016 Featured Story

Students inspect a toy gun that's an exhibit in the CSI: Lowell fictional crime contest

10/26/2016 Featured Story

Forensic Science Contest Shows off Core Research Facilities

The university’s Core Research Facilities, a group of open access laboratories, is showing off its state-of-the-art scientific equipment by offering a fictional crime “Lunch and Learn” series of workshops and a short-story contest for undergraduates.

10/26/2016 Featured Story

7/12/2016 Featured Story

Professors Win Grants for Innovative Research

Three teams of UMass Lowell researchers — led by Prof. Holly Yanco and Assoc. Prof. Yu Cao, both from the Department of Computer Science, and Asst. Prof. Seongkyu Yoon from Chemical Engineering — are among the recipients of $834,000 in grants from this year’s UMass President Science & Technology Initiatives Fund.

7/12/2016 Featured Story

5/24/2016 Featured Story

NASA's Valkyrie Robot Will Blaze the Trail to Mars & Beyond

UMass Lowell students and researchers are programming one of only four robots in the world that NASA hopes will allow us to one day live on Mars.

5/24/2016 Featured Story

3/28/2016 Press Release

Expert: Robots Are Changing How Humans Relate to Each Other

Internationally respected robotics researcher and UMass Lowell computer science faculty member Holly Yanco will share her understanding of how the use of robots – from Mars rovers to assistive technology – is changing how humans relate to each other at the 2016 Distinguished University Professor Lecture.

3/28/2016 Press Release

1/7/2016 Featured Story

NASA Robot Coming to Campus

A state-of-the-art NASA robot prototype will soon be taking up residence at the university’s robotics testing lab to study how this human-like machine can assist astronauts in future space exploration.

1/7/2016 Featured Story

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