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AWARDS
Even before the founding of CRES, various labs in the Center were getting recognition through various awards. Here are some awards robotics research at USC has received:
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- First place in the Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Systems Aerial Robotics Competition in 1994.
- Second placein the 1996 AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference Robot Contest.
- First place at the 1997 RobotCup World Championship.
- Two first place awards (Overall and People's Choice) and several others in the 1997 AAAI Conference Robot Contest.
- Second place in the 1998 AAAI Conference Robot Contest.
- Special Award and a 3rd place in the 1999 AAAI Conference Robot Contest.
- ACM best paper award, Agents 1999, D. Goldberg & M. Mataric'.
- Finalist for best paper award, ICRA 2000, S. Schaal, C. Atkeson, & S. Vijaykumar.
- Best paper award, ICRA 2002, A. Ispeert, J. Nakanishi, & S. Schaal
- Award for the paper with most philosophical consequences, SAB 2002, K. Stoy, W-M. Shen, P. Will
- Five of the fourteen papers in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, special issue on "Multi-Robot Systems", 18(5), October 2002, are authored by PhD students and faculty in the USC.
- Best paper award (2003), HICSS-36 Emerging Technologies Track M. Nicolescu and M. Mataric'.
- W-M. Shen and P. Will received 2003 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award in honor of their research on Reconfigurable Robots (CONRO).
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MEDIA COVERAGE
CRES was founded in the fall of 2002, and inaugurated on September 26, 2002. Here is some of the press the Center has received. |
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- TV'S CYBERGUY VISITS THE VITERBI ROBOTICS RESEARCH LAB, a KTLA-TV article by Kurt, Friday, December 14, 2007.
- JPL and USC Forge Four-Year Partnership, a USC Chronicle article by Allison Engel, Monday, February 13, 2006.
- Found in Translation, a IEEE Intelligent Systems 20(6):6-8 31, Nov./Dec. 2005 article by Danna Voth, Thursday, December 01, 2005.
- Smart Sensors of Network the World, a Scientific American article by David E. Culler and Hans Mulder, Tuesday, June 01, 2004.
- Puckish robots pull together: Air hockey helps joint techniques for work in space., a Nature article by Philip Ball, Friday, May 28, 2004.
- USC's Profs Breach Boundaries to Spur Interdisciplinary Research, a USC Chronicle article by Gia Scafidi, Monday, September 22, 2003.
- Heads Together, a USC News article by Gia Scafidi, Wednesday, August 06, 2003.
- What Lies Beneath, a College of Letters, Arts and Science Magazine article by Eva Emerson, Summer 2003.
- Robot science puts on a friendly face (scanned), a USA Today article by Edward C. Baig, Thursday, May 01, 2003.
- Robot science puts on a friendly face (online), a USA Today article by Edward C. Baig, Wednesday, April 30, 2003.
- Robots are ready to rumble, a USC Chronicle article by Gia Scafidi, Monday, March 31, 2003.
- Making Robots More Like Us, a New York Times article by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Thursday, March 06, 2003.
- Robots to the Rescue, a USC News article by Gia Scafidi, Thursday, February 20, 2003.
- Robots, Robots, Everywhere, a USC Chronicle article, Monday, November 11, 2002.
- At the Intersection of Robbie and HAL, a USC Today article, Wednesday, October 23, 2002.
- Are you Ready to Roomba?, a USC Chronicle article, Monday, September 23, 2002.
- Space Repairman, a Technology Review article by Gregory T. Huang.
- Robotica, a Trojan Family Magazine article by Mark Ewing, Eric Mankin and Bob Calverley.
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