https://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/ Very sparse news list for MIT's Robot Locomotion Group September 27, 2009 http://www.darpa.mil/Docs/YFA09AnnouncementFinal.pdf Russ Tedrake was awarded the 2009 DARPA Young Faculty Award. August 2, 2009 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/positions.html The Robot Locomotion Group currently has a number of positions available. July 14, 2009 Katie Byl has accepted an Assistant Professor position at UC Santa Barbara. Congratulations Katie! July 1, 2009 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/robotics-center/public_papers/Tedrake09a.pdf The LQR-Trees paper won the Best Paper Award at Robotics: Science and Systems, 2009. A MATLAB software distribution for the LQR-Trees algorithm is coming soon. June 11, 2009 http://dynamicwalking.org/ The Dynamic Walking meeting will be held a MIT in 2010, from July 8-11, organized by Russ Tedrake and Hugh Herr. May 8, 2009 Congratulations to Elena Glassman for winning the EECS Masterworks Oral Thesis Presentation Award. April 10, 2009 Congratulations to Woody Hoburg and Elena Glassman for winning the NSF Graduate Fellowship. March 1, 2009 Fumiya Iida has accepted a SNF Assistant Professorship at ETH Zurich. Congratulations Fumiya! February 1, 2009 Congratulations to John Roberts for passing the qualifiers and submitting his Masters thesis!. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/pubs.html October 1, 2008 The Robot Locomotion Group has moved to the third floor. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/directions.html September 22, 2008 The full-day workshop at IROS 2008 was a great success. PDFs of many of the talks and all of the poster abstracts are available on the meeting website. We plan to organize another Robot Learning workshop in 2009. http://www-clmc.usc.edu/~jrpeters/tcrl/pmwiki.php/TC/IROS2008 August 28, 2008 Katie Byl successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Katie! http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/pubs.html August 22, 2008 Russ Tedrake, Sebastian Seung, Alex Megretski, and Hongkun Park have been awarded an NSF EFRI for investigating the dynamics of neural networks on a planar patch-clamp array. You can find NSF's press release here. http://www.nsf.gov/eng/efri/fy08awards.jsp August 5, 2008 The Phoenix (a 2m wingspan ornithopter) has taken it's first autonomous flight. Photos by Jason Dorfman. <center> <img height=225 src="images/ornithopter_01_web.jpg">    <img height=225 src="images/ornithopter_08_web.jpg"> </center> July 26, 2008 Katie Byl was awarded the IFRR Student Fellowship for her paper/presentation at ISER 2008 July 3, 2008 The MIT Learning Locomotion (LittleDog) Team was awarded phase III funding. Photo by Jason Dorfman. <center> <img height=250 src="images/littledog_36_web.jpg"> </center> June 12, 2008 Russ Tedrake was awarded an NSF Career Award May 28, 2008 Elena Glassman was awarded an NDSEG Graduate Fellowship May 25, 2008 The new IEEE Technical Committee on Robot Learning is now online. http://www.learning-robots.de/ May 18, 2008 Russ Tedrake was awarded the Jerome Saltzer award for undergraduate teaching May 13, 2008 Rick Cory wins the MIT Computer Science Masters Thesis Award May 8, 2008 Rick Cory wins the Masterworks Award for his poster on perching planes and robotic ornithopters April 14, 2008 Russ Tedrake was awarded the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship