Lots of things have happened! First off, I’ve changed projects, again. I am now going to be working on a flexible manipulator for minimally invasive surgeries. My supervisors are now Dr. Prokar Dasgupta, Dr. Thrish Nanayakkara, and Dr. Kaspar Althoefer. They are great mentors to work with, and have helped me a lot so far.…

Things are going well, so far. Last week my supervisor and I submitted two papers for a presentation at the Dynamic Walking 2011 conference and an ICRA 2011 workshop. As of now, we’re working on completing another full conference paper for IROS 2011. In addition, I just finished TA-ing for his Real Time Systems course…

Two weeks ago, I left for Genoa, Italy to meet the humanoid robotics team at the Italian Institute of Technology. I spent about a week observing their work, particularly on the ccub robot (a variant of the icub robot). It was a lot of fun, and I definitely learned a lot, as well as gaining…