January 2019: HIRoLab moved to 麻豆精品.
September 2018: Dr. Rastgaar is the PI for a collaborative grant from National Science Foundation’s National Robotic Initiative 2.0. The Study entitled: INT:COLAB: Anthropomorphic Robotic Ankle Prosthesis with Programmable Material. This Award’s abstract can be found here: , and .
September 2017: Dr. Rastgaar co-organized the workshop on “Adaptive Control Methods in Assistive Technologies” for the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS 2017) in Vancouver, Canada.
January 2016: Robotic Falconry: A drone-hunter prototype. We filed and received the patent for the prototype drone-hunter system that we developed. It was featured in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and .
November 2015: Dr. Houman Dallali joined HIRoLab as a postdoctoral associate.
November 2015: Evandro Ficanha successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. He received Outstanding Scholarship Award from Michigan Tech’s graduate school. Dr. Ficanha continues his research at HIRoLab as a research engineer.
June 2015: Dr. Rastgaar and Dr. Artemiadis (Arizona State University) co-organized the workshop on “Rehabilitation Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction” for the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015) in Seattle, WA.
November 2014: Research at HIRoLab with EMG systems was featured in Delsys’ news website. The article can be viewed here:
September 2014: Dr. Rastgaar is co-PI for a grant from National Science Foundation’s National Robotic Initiative. The Study entitled: Co-Robots to Engage Next Generation of Students in STEM Learning. Award’s abstract can be found here: .
March 2014: Dr. Rastgaar received National Science Foundation CAREER award for the study entitled: Steerable Powered Ankle-foot Prostheses for Increased Mobility in Amputees. Award’s abstract and announcement can be found here: , (updated ).
October 2013: The robotic ankle-foot prosthesis developed in Hirolab in collaboration with Mayo Clinic was featured in several news outlets, including , , , , , , , , , and many more news outlets.
October 2013: Dr. Rastgaar’s research at MIT on the estimation of mechanical impedance of human ankle and lower extremity rehabilitation robots was featured in several news outlets, including , , , and several other news outlets.
May 2013: Evandro Ficanha received Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for his performance in instructing Robotics and Mechatronics lab.
December 2011: Evandro Ficanha received Outstanding Student Award for his performance and leadership in his Senior Capstone Design.
Januray 2011: HIRoLab was founded.