April 9, 2021

Robotics Expert: Gen Z Will Usher in Era of Advanced Robots

Today’s robots are good at performing single tasks. You can buy an autonomous robot, for instance, to vacuum your house. A true single helper robot that can vacuum, cook and wash the dishes? That could be a while, but Dale Musser believes Generation Z will usher in the era of advanced robotics.

Feb. 24, 2021

Students Now Putting Spot the Robot to Work

Watch as sophomore Stephen Bowen explains the programming used to code Spot (Video courtesy of Kristofferson Culmer) It’s not quite dancing in viral videos just yet, but Mizzou Engineering’s Spot is getting a little smarter each day, thanks to an inaugural group of student programmers. Spot is an agile mobile robot from Boston Dynamics perhaps best known for videos of it dancing to popular tunes such as Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” and “Do You Love Me?” by The Contours. The Information Technology Program acquired a Spot this semester to help students learn to work with autonomous systems. Now,…

Feb. 18, 2021

See Spot Work: Spot the Robot Now Embedded in IT Program

See Spot walk. See Spot run. Now, students in the Information Technology Program at Mizzou Engineering are seeing how they can make Spot perform more complicated tasks.