We use the UMBC group umbc-ai to share news about AI research, events, and opportunities at UMBC. UMBC faculty, staff, and students can join the group to receive email messages. Anyone can view past news on the group or on the AI.UMBC.EDU website. Below are short summaries of recent messages from the UMBC AI Center.
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Strange Dance Partners
UMBC researchers are discovering building blocks of hand motions, aiming to improve physical therapy for humans and find better ways to program robots. They're turning to a novel source material...
Posted: December 18, 2025, 8:07 AM
UMBC researchers use Indian dance to improve robotic hand movement learning
UMBC Professor Ramana Vinjamuri and his students used Bharatanatyam Mudras, Indian classical dance hand gestures, to help train and evaluate their system for recognizing and modeling human hand...
Posted: December 5, 2025, 10:54 AM
Talk: Extracting Implicit Social Information from the Space Around Us, 12/8
12-1 pm ET Monday, December 8, UMBC ITE 406 and online
Extracting Implicit Social Information from the Space Around Us Dr. Claire Liang, MIT CSAIL 12-1 pm ET Monday, December 8 UMBC ITE 406 and online We already have robots among us. From Coco...
Posted: December 3, 2025, 6:07 PM
Talk: Caring Robots in an Aging World, 11/6
4-5:30pm Thur., Nov. 6, 2025, AOK Library Gallery, UMBC
Caring Robots in an Aging World A lecture with guest speaker Shawn Bender, Ph.D. 4-5:30pm Thur., Nov. 6, 2025, AOK Library Gallery, UMBC The potential of robotics technologies to assist in...
Posted: October 17, 2025, 9:43 AM
UMBC researchers explore how a robot dance partner could help us de-stress
The performance in June during the Movement, Music, and Brain Health NSF AccelNet meeting at UMBC was the brainchild of three UMBC faculty who have joined forces to explore whether and how dancing...
Posted: July 12, 2025, 5:15 PM
Talk: Seeing Beneath the Surface: Vision-Enabled Robots for Long-term Ocean Monitoring
4:00–5:15pm ET Wed, Feb. 19, 2025, UMBC ITE 231 & online
Seeing Beneath the Surface: Vision-Enabled Robots for Long-term Ocean Monitoring Xiaomin Lin, JHU 4–5:15pm ET Wed, Feb. 19, 2025, ITE 231, UMBC & online Autonomous systems operating...
Posted: February 15, 2025, 12:03 PM
Talk: Improving Shared Embodiment between Humans and Robots with Haptics
12-1 pm EDT, October 30, ITE 459, UMBC
UMBC WISS Series Improving Shared Embodiment between Humans and Robots with Haptics Janelle Clark, Mechanical Engineering, UMBC 12-1pm EDT, Oct. 30, ITE 459 and online Lunch will be...
Posted: October 29, 2024, 1:10 PM
UMBC CARDS advancing robot communication and cooperation
When two robots are better than one
The UMBC Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy (CARDS) has been working to develop robotic devices that can interact with their environment and each other to plan and accomplish...
Posted: March 23, 2024, 6:25 PM