In The News

Smart Hive 2.0 installed at GMU and USDA

Appearance in “Go Navy Beat Army 2021” – NRL Army/Navy Game Promo Video

Events Presentations Robots

Hosting: Workshop on Robotic Swarms and Emergent Behavior

Parts we made launched into space successfully aboard NG-15

Letter of Commendation from U.S. Department of Defense and U.K Ministry of Defense

U.S. – UK 2020 Science and Technology Cooperation Award Winners

Robot News – Michael Overstreet interviews Daniel M. Lofaro

ONR-G/AFOSR “Trust in AI” workshop video posted

ONR-G/AFOSR “Trust in AI” Workshop

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Best Paper Award IEEE CIS-RAM 2019

Art Events Robots

The Narrative Machine Meets Robots – Musical Interactions with Humanoids a Tutorial at the IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2019 conference in Toronto, Canada

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Demo at the National Museum of the Marine Corps near MCB Quantico for Robotics Day

Art Maker Robots

Lofaro Labs Wiki Hits Over Two Million Views

Art Events Music

A new Lofaro instrument called “poem-drum” is debuting at the NIMBUS FUSE Ensemble April 5th and 6th in Washington DC.

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Event: Exploration of Musical Timbre – An Engineer’s Point of View (22 Feb)

10 Years of Jaemi Hubo and other Hubo Robots in the USA

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“Acts of Storytelling” by Edgar Endress and Daniel Lofaro – a “sneak peak”

Call for Papers: The 13th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at 18th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots Beijing, China – November 6th, 2018

Events Presentations Robots

Upcoming Event: Presenting at the National Museum of the Marine Corps – “Semper Force”

Photos from demo at the National Museum of the Marine Corps for Robotics Day

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Demo at National Museum of the Marine Corps – ROBOTICS DAY: IN THE FIELD AND AT HOME

Lofaro Labs/DASL@GMU Wiki Reaches One Million Views!!!

Featured on TV’s WUSA 9: Lofaro’s and Endres’ project “The Narrative Machine”

“The Narrative Machine” Feature in the Washington Post

In Water Test: Centroid vectoring for attitude control of floating base robots

The Narrative Machine is the featured article in “The George”

Preparing for fully submerged robot test with US/Croatia project

Presentations Robots

Lofaro Featured on IEEE Spectrum Video Friday

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Daniel M. Lofaro’s interview for Robots in Depth on the topic of “Co-Robots”

“The Narrative Machine” – Cello Drum – Video

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Presentation/Demonstration at the Impact Design Summit with DARPA Tech Shop and Autodesk

Making robots serve alcohol at the “Whiskey & Widgits” event

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Presentation for the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) sponsored by the Department of State

Presentations Robots

Presenting at IEEE-IROS 2017 on “Distributed Relative Localisation using Ultra-Wideband Ranging”

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Call for Papers: The 12th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots

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Thank you card from grade school students who visited the lab

Competing in the Amazon Robotics Challenge in Nagoya, Japan

SynthSpinner – Fidget Spinner + Magnets + Analog Synth

Made a DASL Spinner to test the new build plate for the CNC

Linear actuators connected via MIDI and x-Ach for our “Narrative Machine”

Events Presentations Robots

YouTube Lecture: From Automatons to Robots, the Future is Coming

Presentations Robots

Presenting “The Robots are coming” at the University of Bridgeport

Maker Music Robots

Presenting at the NoVA MakerFaire

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Demonstrating robots, next generation musical instruments, and 3D printers at the Engineering Youth Conference

CNC First Cut – Lofaro Labs Robotics – DASL@GMU

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RAS participates in Presidential Inauguration Leadership Summit

Wearable Metronome using Samsung Gear S3 Frontier

Wearable Robot Controller (WRC)

VLRS: Vehicle Lean Recovery System – Test Progress

Presentations Robots

Navigating Autonomous Three-dimensional Interactive Virtualization Environment

ROBOTS: A Lecture Series – Raj Madhavan

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TALK Youth Leadership Bimonthly Session – Presentation on “Robotics Engineering – The Science, Social, and Politics”

Jaemi Hubo Turns 8 (that is 104 in robot years)

Maker Music Robots

UPDATE: MIDI to Arduino to play a guitar (Instruments in the Attic Organ Update) [With Audio]

MIDI to Arduino to play a guitar (Instruments in the Attic Organ Update) [No Audio]

Events Maker Music Robots

Hack-a-thon for the 4th time!!!

Grasping and Manipulation Challenge at IROS 2016

2nd MAKING MUSIC ROBOTS Hack-a-thon!!!

The 16th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots – IEEE Humanoids 2016 in Cancun, Mexico Call for Papers and Abstracts

MAKING MUSIC ROBOTS Hack-a-thon!!!

Events Presentations

Talking Technology Policy and Secure Robotics with KAIST – KUSCO

Presenting Robots at the 2016 NoVA Mini Maker Faire

Real-Time over the Cloud

Presenting Robots for Engineer’s Week 2016

Presenting work at the 2016 HayMaker STEM Expo

Chris Vo and Dan Lofaro in The Connection article – Fairfax Area Becomes a ‘No Drone Zone’

NSF-DHS Policy for Autonomy Workshop

3D Printed Trumpet Plays “Bad” Christmas Music (We Wish You a Merry Christmas)

DARPA Robotics Fast Track Workshop Participant

Presentation to Virginia legislature’s House Appropriations and Finance Committees:

Humanoids 2015 in Seoul, South Korea

Team SurfBot Rocks!!!

Competing in RoboCup 2015 Child-Size League in Hefei, China

On MLB.com again!

Presenting at the 2015 National Maker Faire in Washington DC

DASL Finished 8th in the DARPA Robotic Challenge Finals, and a DRC-Hubo wins it all!!!

Lofaro Labs Undergraduates presenting at the 2nd Annual VSE Student Celebration

Lofaro Labs and Volgenau Students Participate in Smithsonian National Robotics Week

Upcoming Event: Robotics Week Kickoff Event Demo at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC

NoVa Mini Maker Faire 2015

2015 K-12 STEM Symposium

In “Washington Exec” Article – 2015 K-12 STEM Symposium

1st Place and People’s Choice