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Volunteers pose in front of a FIRST Robotics banner at a competition.

Robotics Outreach Ambassadors of 2026

April 29, 2026

We honor students who are enthusiastic in outreach through their extraordinary service to the robotics community and beyond.

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Robotics, advanced manufacturing and national security Q&A

April 27, 2026

University of Michigan Engineering's Okwudire and Dawn Tilbury are providing expertise for a new Special Competitive Studies Project commission.

A sequence of eight high-speed photos showing colorful water droplets exploding upward from a tiny soft actuator membrane, captured over just 3 milliseconds.

'Spark of Color' wins soft robotics art awards

April 16, 2026

The artwork captured the explosive beauty of combustion actuators through a high-speed camera, winning two awards at the 2026 IEEE RoboSoft conference in Kanazawa, Japan.

Events

May 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM

Michigan Robotics Hackathon

Split illustration contrasting two robotic perception scenarios: on the left, an underwater ROV with a camera surveys fish and seafloor objects in murky water; on the right, a self-driving car uses camera, LiDAR, and radar to detect pedestrians and vehicles on a rainy city street. A stylized brain with neural network nodes and intertwined loops sits at the center, linking the two domains.

May 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM

Multimodal Fusion and Temporal Reasoning for Intelligent Robot Perception

PhD Defense, Jingyu Song

May 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM

Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Autonomous Hybrid Microelectronics Packaging: Process Characterization, Adaptive Routing, and Real-Time Sensing

PhD Defense, Kaifan Yue

Social media

Instagram5/5/2026

Check out Robotics Capstone projects that challenge undergraduate robotics students for the culmination of the program. These groups partner with an external team, such as @subaru_usa, to study, design, and build a solution to an open-ended robotics...

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YouTube5/4/2026

A Robotics Department graduation? Needs a robot parade.Graduation means one thing around here: robot parade. Congratulations to all the graduates, good luck, and go blue!

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3/18/2026

Having trouble concentrating? Not in Robotics. Five new undergraduate robotics concentrations, coming this fall. https://t.co/6NQfQzsorO

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