Happy New Year! Now that it’s 2011, things are really starting to get rolling. In addition to the theoretical work I’ve been doing for my project, I’ll be working to collaborate with other organizations. Most notably, I will be meeting Shadow Robotics and the Italian Institute of Technology. These next few months will be particularly…

Things are going so far so good. Word is that there will be a review panel meeting on Nov 3 to approve or disapprove of the grant we’re requesting. Fingers crossed that it will go through. The other day, I came up with a new idea for the snake robot the group is pushing to…

So after some negotiating, I am now at a crossroad between two projects. The first would be the snake-bot and the second would be a humanoid. Personally, I find working on a humanoid to be vastly more exciting, so I’m trying to jump onto that project. However, green-lighting that project is currently dependent on whether…