robotics and autonomous systems

  • January 25, 2023

    Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.

  • January 18, 2023

    A team of six from George Mason earned an award for teamwork and collaboration at the 2022 Maritime RobotX competition in Australia after working with competitors from two other universities.

  • January 3, 2023

    Drawn by Mason’s multidisciplinary research and teaching, Missy Cummings will create a new program in the design and deployment of Artificial Intelligence.

  • Wed, 08/10/2022 - 12:53

    Research Interests: Perception, tactile sensing, robotic manipulation

  • Tue, 08/09/2022 - 16:13

    Research Interests: Field Robotics, Motion Planning, Machine Learning

  • July 5, 2022

    Sabrina Stenberg sees the SMART scholarship as a way to maximize her graduate studies at George Mason while remaining employed as a chemical engineer with the Department of Defense (DoD). Through the scholarship, Stenberg can focus on her master of science in electrical engineering at Mason full-time.

  • March 1, 2022

    Mason's College of Engineering and Computing Rapid Prototype Research Center (RPRC) successfully completed a demonstration of an advanced heavy-lift autonomous aircraft called UAS-(L) at Fort Pickett, Virginia.

  • Mon, 01/31/2022 - 15:17

    Research Interests: Bio-medical robots, soft robotics

  • Wed, 09/15/2021 - 11:54

    Research Interests: Human AI interaction, NLP, machine learning

  • Thu, 08/05/2021 - 11:30

    Research Interests: Non/semi-parametric regression, methodologies for functional data, spatiotemporal data, survey sampling, high dimensional data analysis.