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Students from Law Elementary visit TRACLabs

David Kortenkamp — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:58:39 +0000

Students from the James H. Law Elementary School in Houston recently visited TRACLabs to see robotics demonstrations and interact with TRACLabs scientists. Law Elementary is a magnet school for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Nearly 20 students participated. In the picture below, TRACLabs’ scientist Dr. Patrick Beeson demonstrates a thermal sensor to the students. The TRACLabs manipulator is in the foreground.

Students from James H. Law Elementary visit TRACLabs

Seth Gee joins TRACLabs

jeremy — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:07:44 +0000

Seth Gee, a recent graduate of University of Texas at Austin has joined the TRACLabs team. While at UT, he worked on embedded systems and control for autonomous aerial and ground vehicles before getting his degree in Computer Engineering.

He will be working on teleoperation software for NASA and GM’s R2. He is also working on dexterous manipulation for TRACBot.

TRACLabs scientists participate in NASA’s Desert RATS

David Kortenkamp — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:58:54 +0000

NASA is conducting their annual Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) program. Desert RATS evaluates technology, human-robotic systems and extravehicular equipment in the high desert near Flagstaff, Ariz. TRACLabs scientists are working side-by-side with NASA researchers to explore time-delayed operation of robotic assets. You can follow the Desert RATS experiments over the next two weeks at the following sites:

Desert RATS website
Twitter
Facebook

The Habitat Demonstration Unit (HDU) and Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV) from Desert RATS

Follow Robonaut on Twitter

David Kortenkamp — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:37:23 +0000

NASA’s Robonaut is undergoing testing on-board the International Space Station. During testing, Robonaut is tweeting:

http://twitter.com/#!/AstroRobonaut

TRACLabs researchers have worked with NASA on various generations of Robonaut over the past decade and continue to perform joint research with NASA on a variety of robotic technologies.

NASA's Robonaut on-board the ISS

TRACLabs interns

David Kortenkamp — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:15:03 +0000

TRACLabs was fortunate to have three excellent summer interns this year. These interns improved the capabilities of our mobile manipulation system and also built a high-fidelity Gazebo simulation of the mobile manipulator. Pictured below, left to right, are Ben Conrad from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nicolae Stiurca from the University of Texas-Austin, and Jonathan Realmuto from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Ben will return to the University of Wisconsin for graduate school. Nicolai will start graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall while Jonathan will start graduate studies at the University of Washington in the fall.

TRACLabs 2011 Summer Interns

TRACLabs interns meet NASA R2

David Kortenkamp — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:01:16 +0000

TRACLabs interns received a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA Johnson Space Center’s robotics facilities today. Including an upclose-and-personal encounter with the R2 humanoid robot. A duplicate of this R2 robot is currently on-board the International Space Station (ISS). TRACLabs scientists work side-by-side with NASA robotics engineers on a wide variety of robots for space applications.

Jonathan meets NASA's R2

TRACLabs under construction

David Kortenkamp — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:43:53 +0000

TRACLabs is currently building out a new facility in the Clear Lake area of Houston. This 5000 square foot laboratory and office space will more than double our current space and will provide room for our growing company. TRACLabs scientists took a tour of the new site recently (see picture below). We are quite excited and will post regular updates as we move forward.

Looking in from our new front door

Welcome to Jeremy Norman

David Kortenkamp — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:23:56 +0000

TRACLabs welcomes its newest employee, Jeremy Norman, who is a software engineer. Jeremy comes to us from Northrop Grumman in Colorado. He has a BS in Mathematical and Computer Sciences from the Colorado School of Mines. Proficient in Java, C++, Web programming and OWL ontologies, Jeremy will be assisting TRACLabs scientists in developing cutting edge information display technologies for NASA and other customers.

TRACLabs' newest employee