Past Lab Meetings
Winter Quarter 2024
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Tuesday, January 9, 2024 | Rianna Jitosho | Rotation project matching | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PT |
| Tuesday, January 16, 2024 | Brian Vuong | Research update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PT |
| Tuesday, January 23, 2024 | Alexandre Thuillier | Research introduction | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PT |
| Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | Ryo Eguchi | Research update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PT |
| Tuesday, February 6, 2024 | LAB CLEAN UP | MERL 126 | 1:30-2:30 pm PT | |
| Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | Allison Okamura | DEIB Activity: Sustainable robotics discussion | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PT |
| Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | Cosima du Pasquier | Practice Job Talk | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PT |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | Ko Yamamoto | Research introduction | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PT |
| Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Elizabeth Childs | Practice talk for IEEE VR | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PT |
| Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | Rotators and Kyosuke Ishibashi (Univ. of Tokyo) | Rotator project presentations and Research visitor presentation | MERL 203 and Zoom | 1:30-3:00 pm PT (note extended time!) |
Summer Quarter 2023
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Thursday, June 22, 2023 | Jaehyung and Ian | Research updates | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PT |
| Wednesday, July 5, 2023 | Allison Okamura | DEI Activity | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 pm PT |
| Thursday, July 27, 2023 | Liana Tilton | Research Update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10:30-11:30 am PT |
| Thursday, August 10, 2023 | All | Lab Cleanup | MERL 126 | 11:00-12:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | Allison leads discussion | Student-Advisor Expectation Scales | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 pm PT |
Spring Quarter 2023
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | Allison Okamura, Elizabeth Childs, Rotation mentors | Lab updates, Practice research qual, Rotation matching | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | Yimeng Qin, Dan Ilyin | Practice research quals | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | All (except Allison who has a quals conflict) | Lab clean up (Allison will join for the last ~15 minutes to answer questions) | MERL 126 | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | Allison Okamura | DEI activity -- human subjects demographics | 1st floor CDR and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, May 3, 2023 | Cosima | ChatGPT in research | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | Aaron Michael West | Exploring Human Performance: The Importance of Studying our Limitations | 1st floor CDR and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | Megha Srivastava | Dorsa Sadigh’s group seeking data on AI+education | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | Crystal Winston | Research practice talk | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
| Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | No lab meeting (ICRA) | No lab meeting (ICRA) | N/A | N/A |
| Wednesday, June 7, 2023 | Rotators, Sreela Kodali | Rotator presentations and Sreela Kodali Research presentation | 1st floor CDR and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm PT |
Winter Quarter 2023
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Thursday, January 12, 2023 | Allison Okamura, Tomoya Takahashi, Rotation mentors | Lab updates, Tomoya Takahashi research introduction, Rotation matching | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Thursday, January 19, 2023 | Allison | DEI discussion with Lunch (note change in time) | MERL 203 only | 12:00-1:00 PT |
| Thursday, January 26, 2023 | Brian Do | Job talk | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Thursday, February 2, 2023 | Everyone | Lab cleanup | MERL 126 | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Thursday, February 9, 2023 | Hojung Choi, Kentaro Yoshida, and Ryo Eguchi | 10-minute Research Spotlight talks | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Thursday, February 16, 2023 | Alaa Eldin Abdelaal | Research Introduction | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Thursday, February 23, 2023 | No Lab Meeting | No Lab Meeting | ||
| Thursday, March 2, 2023 | Lloyd May | Disability design for musical experiences: Co-creating haptic instruments with children who are D/deaf and Hard of Hearing | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Thursday, March 9, 2023 | No Lab Meeting | No Lab Meeting | ||
| Thursday, March 16, 2023 | Rotators | Rotator presentations | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
Autumn Quarter 2022
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | Allison Okamura, Godson Osele, and Rotation mentors | Lab updates, Godson quals practice, Rotation matching | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | Cosima du Pasquier | Introduction and Past Research | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | Kentaro Yoshida | Introduction and Past Research | 1st floor CDR | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | No lab meeting | Quals | n/a | n/a |
| Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | No lab meeting | IROS conference | n/a | n/a |
| Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio | Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio seminar | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | Allison | DEI activity (lunch after) | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Everyone | Lab cleanup | MERL 126 | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, November 23, 2022 | No lab meeting | Thanksgiving week | n/a | n/a |
| Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | Alexander Kuebler | Research presentation on visiting student vine robot projects | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | Rotators | Rotator presentations | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
Summer Quarter 2022
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | Hyeonseok Seong | Research Presentation | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, July 13, 2022 | Catie Cuan Vanessa Sanchez, postdoc in Zhenan Bao's group | CHARM Safety Review Textiles as the Basis for Soft Wearable Robots | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10:00-11:00 PT |
| Thursday, July 28, 2022 | High school researchers | Research Presentations | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 PT |
| Wednesday, August 3, 2022 | Allison Okamura | DEI Activity | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, August 17, 2022 | Liana, William, Alejandrina, and Alex | Research Presentations | MERL 203 and Zoom | 11:00-12:00 PT |
| Wednesday, August 31, 2022 | Everyone | Lab Cleanup | MERL 126 | 10:30-12:00 PT |
Spring Quarter 2022
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Thursday, March 31, 2022 | Alexander Kubler Rotator mentors | Introduction and previous vine robot research presentation Rotation project idea presentations/matching | MERL 203 and Zoom | 3:30-4:30 pm |
| Monday, April 4, 2022 | CANCELLED [was: Fredrik Solberg] | CANCELLED [was: Research qualifying exam practice presentation] | CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| Monday, April 11, 2022 | PhD students, PostDocs, and MS students with RAships | Lab cleanup | MERL 126 | 1:30-2:50 pm PDT |
| Monday, April 18, 2022 | Allison Okamura | DEI Activity | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PDT |
| Monday, April 25, 2022 | Sreela Kodali | Previous research and qualifying exam practice presentation | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PDT |
| Monday, May 2, 2022 | Rachel Adenekan | Research update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PDT |
| Monday, May 9, 2022 | Nathaniel Agharese | Research Update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PDT |
| Monday, May 16, 2022 | Negin Heravi | Practice Thesis Defense | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PDT |
| Monday, May 23, 2022 | No Lab Meeting | ICRA Conference | ||
| Tuesday, May 31, 2022 | Rotators | Rotator presentations | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-3:00 pm |
Winter Quarter 2022
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| January 3, 2022 | Everyone | Winter quarter plans and rotation project idea presentations/matching | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PST |
| January 10, 2022 | Allison | Paper writing and review process workshop | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PST |
| January 17, 2022 | No Lab Meeting | Holiday | ||
| January 24, 2022 | All PhD students, Postdocs, and MS students working with hardware | Lab clean up (see slack post for clean up jobs and sign up) | MERL 126 | 2:00-3:00 pm or 3:30-4:30 pm PST |
| January 31, 2022 | Allison | PhD student-advisor expectations worksheet | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PST |
| February 7, 2022 | Thomas Daunizeau (remote) | Review of visiting student activities and practice presentation for the Soft Robotics Winter School
| MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PST |
| February 14, 2022 | Allison leads | CHARM DEI Activity | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PST |
| February 21, 2022 | No Lab Meeting | Holiday | ||
| February 28, 2022 | Rotators | Rotator presentations from Yimeng, Genggeng (Mark), Grace, Sofia, Sidra, and Alexis | MERL 203 and Zoom | 2:00-2:50 pm PST |
| March 7, 2022 | No Lab Meeting | Allison at conference |
Autumn Quarter 2021
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| September 22, 2021 | Allison and current CHARM Lab Members | Lab introduction and potential rotation projects / project matchmaking | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10-11 am PDT |
| September 29, 2021 | Crystal Winston | Practice research qualifying exam presentation | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10-10:55 am PDT |
| October 6, 2021 | "Permanent" lab members only | Lab Clean up | MERL 126 | 10-11 am PDT |
| October 13, 2021 | Ryo Eguchi | Introduction of new postdoc and presentation on prior work | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10-10:55 am PDT |
| October 20, 2021 | Nathaniel, Negin, Rianna, Taylor | PhD Internship Experience | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10-10:55 am PDT |
| October 27, 2021 | Elizabeth Vasquez | Research Update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10-10:55 am PDT |
| November 3, 2021 | Allison Okamura | DEI Activity | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10-10:55 am PDT |
| November 10, 2021 | Mike Salvato
Zonghe Chua | Research update
Research update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10-10:55 am PDT |
| November 17, 2021 | Brian Do
Zhenish Zhakypov | Research update
Insights into the RoboSoft paper | MERL 203 and Zoom | 10-10:55 am PDT |
| November 24, 2021 | No Lab Meeting | No Lab Meeting | ||
| December 1, 2021 | No Lab Meeting | No Lab Meeting | ||
| December 8, 2021 | Rotating students | Rotator presentations (Elizabeth Childs, Aaron Garza, Joel Kiernan, Steven Trinh, more to be added...) | MERL 203 and Zoom | 9-10 am PDT (note change in time!) |
Summer Quarter 2021
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| June 23, 2021 | Allison Okamura | Summer kickoff: Introductions, group norms, and lab access procedures | Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| June 30, 2021 | Thomas Daunizeau | Research Introduction | Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| July 7, 2021 | Allison Okamura | Publication strategies: Where and when to publish | Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| July 14, 2021 | Allison Okamura | DEI activity | MERL 203 and Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| July 21, 2021 | No Meeting | (Allison on vacation) | N/A | N/A |
| July 28, 2021 | Zong | Statistics: A model-based perspective | MERL 203 and Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| August 4, 2021 | No Meeting | (Allison on vacation) | N/A | N/A |
| August 11, 2021 | Jasmin Palmer Catie Cuan | Relocated Haptic Feedback in Dynamic Virtual and Mixed Reality Environments Research update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| August 18, 2021 | Godson Osele Crystal Winston | Ph.D. Rotation review Research Update | MERL 203 and Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| August 25, 2021 | SURI and REU students | 5-minute lighting talks from Josue Gil-Silva, Destiny Kelly, Joel Kiernan, Owen Queeglay, Elena Kamas, Steven Trinh, Jianna So, David Vacek | MERL 203 and Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| September 1, 2021 | Prof. Renee Zhao | Lab introduction and collaborative project ideas | MERL 203 and Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| September 8, 2021 | Allison Okamura | Proposal writing | MERL 203 and Zoom | 3-4 pm PDT |
| September 15, 2021 | No Meeting | Enjoy the last week of summer! | N/A | N/A |
Spring Quarter 2021
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| March 29, 2021 | Jasmin Palmer Elizabeth Vasquez | Practice Research Qual Practice Research Qual | Zoom | 12-1:30 pm PDT |
| April 5, 2021 | Zhenishbek Zhakypov | Introduction of new postdoc and presentation of prior research | Zoom | 12-1 pm PDT |
| April 12, 2021 | No meeting | Spend time on lab cleanup instead (see lab email/google sheet) | ||
| April 19, 2021 | No meeting | No meeting (Allison has a faculty meeting) | ||
| April 26, 2021 | Mike Salvato and Negin Heravi Cara Nunez | QIF Finalist Practice Research Update | Zoom | 12-1 pm PDT |
| May 3, 2021 | Allison Okamura | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion activity | Zoom | 12-1 pm PDT |
| May 10, 2021 | Kyle Yoshida Brian Do | Research Update Research Update | Zoom | 12-1 pm PDT |
| May 17, 2021 | Brian Do Rianna Jitosho | Practice ICRA Presentation Practice ICRA Presentation | Zoom | 12-1 pm PDT |
| May 24, 2021 | Rotator presentations Zonghe Chua | Reports on Spring quarter rotation projects Practice ICRA Presentation | Zoom | 12-1 pm PDT |
| May 31, 2021 | No meeting | No meeting (Holiday) |
Winter Quarter 2021
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Friday, January 15 | Allison Okamura | Lab updates | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
| Friday, January 22 | Margaret Coad | Practice Job Talk | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
| Friday, January 29 | Cara W. | Practice Chalk Talk | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
| Friday, February 5 | Andrew Low | Previous Research Experiences | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
| Friday, February 12 | Sophia Williams Mike Salvato | Research Update Research Update | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
| Friday, February 19 | No Meeting | |||
| Friday, February 26 | Fabio Stroppa Allison leads | Research Update DEI Activity/Discussion | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
| Friday, March 5 | Nathaniel Agharese Mine Sarac | Research Update Research Update | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
| Friday, March 12 | Caitlyn Seim Negin Heravi | Research Update Research Update | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
| Friday, March 19 | Rotators/undergrads Crystal Winston | Short (5-minute) presentations of rotator projects Prior research | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PST |
Autumn Quarter 2020
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Tuesday, September 15 | Allison Okamura | Updates | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
| Tuesday, September 22 | N/A | CHARM + ARM Lab get-together | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
| Tuesday, September 29 | Jasmin, Elizabeth | Research Updates | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
| Tuesday, October 6 | Catie, Margaret | Internship Updates | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
| Tuesday, October 13 | Cara W. + Allison | Case Study | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
| Tuesday, October 20 | Catie | Research Update | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
| Tuesday, October 27 | No Meeting | |||
| Tuesday, November 3 | Cara N. | Research update and doing research abroad | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
| Tuesday, November 10 | Brian, Rianna | Research Updates | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
| Tuesday, November 17 | Steven, Bryce, Alexis, Jack | Rotator Presentations | Zoom | 1:30-2:30 pm PDT |
Summer Quarter 2020
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Friday, June 26 | Allison Okamura Nathaniel Agharese & Sophia Williams | Updates Case Study Overview | Zoom | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT |
| Friday, July 3 | NO LAB MEETING | |||
| Friday, July 10 | Lead by Allison + volunteers | Anti-Racism Discussion | Zoom | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT |
| Friday, July 17 | Allison + group facilitators | Anti-Racism Breakout Rooms | Zoom | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT |
| Friday, July 24 | Allison + Steve Collins (Joint w/ Biomechatronics Lab) | Tutorial/discussion on journal paper revisions | Zoom | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT |
| Friday, July 31 | NO LAB MEETING | |||
| Friday, August 7 | NO LAB MEETING | |||
| Friday, August 14 | Song Wu, Bryce Huerta, Sochima Ezema, and Steven Trinh | Summer undergraduate project updates | Zoom | 11:15 am - 12:00 pm PDT (note late start time) |
| Friday, August 21 | Nathaniel Agharese and Sophia Williams | Case Study on Sexism in VR | Zoom | 11:15 am - 12:15 pm PDT |
| Friday, August 28 | Zonghe Chua | Feedback on possible ICRA paper | Zoom | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT |
| Friday, September 4 | Allison | Discussion of lab plans for fall: lab safety, clean up, rotators, lab jobs | Zoom | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT |
| Friday, September 11 | NO LAB MEETING |
Spring Quarter 2020
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Friday, April 3 | Allison Okamura | Updates | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PDT |
| Thursday, April 9 | Everyone | Updates/Lab Questions | Zoom | 12:00-1:00 pm PDT |
| Wednesday, April 15 | Margaret and Laura | State of the Art in Vine Robots | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PDT |
| Wednesday, April 22 | Haptics Team (Sophia, Mine, Mike, Melisa, Cara N., others?) | State of the Art in Haptics | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PDT |
| Wednesday, April 29 | Fabio Stroppa, Allison Okamura, and Mark Yim | Techniques for Reviewing Papers (joint with ModLab!) Link to materials on CHARM Google account | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PDT |
| Friday, May 8 | Mark Yim and Allison Okamura | Writing Workshop (hosted by ModLab!) Link to materials on CHARM Google account | Zoom | 11:00-12:00 am PDT |
| Wednesday, May 13 | Margaret, Negin, Zong, Fabio | ICRA Practice talks | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PDT |
| Friday, May 15 | Margaret, Laura, Cara, Brian | ICRA Practice talks | Zoom | 11:00 am-12:00 pm PDT |
| Wednesday, May 20 | Cole Simpson | Figures 101 | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PDT |
| Wednesday, May 27 | Allison Okamura and Mark Yim | Proposal Writing (joint with ModLab!) Link to materials on CHARM Google account | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PDT |
| Wednesday, June 3 | Allison Okamura | Lab re-opening, summer plans | Zoom | 10:00-11:00 am PDT |
Winter Quarter 2020
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Wednesday, Jan. 8 | Allison Okamura | Updates/Rotator Projects | MERL 203 | 3:00-4:00 pm |
| Wednesday, Jan. 15 | Everyone (coordinators: Mine, Cara W.) | Quarterly Lab Clean Up | MERL 126 | 3:00-4:00 pm |
| Wednesday, Jan. 22 | Mark Yim | Research Introduction | MERL 203 | 3:00-4:00 pm |
| Wednesday, Jan. 29 | Cole Simpson | Practice Green Light Meeting Presentation | MERL 203 | 3:00-4:00 pm |
| Wednesday, Feb. 5 (Note bonus long meeting!) | Melisa Orta Martinez | Practice job talk(s) | CDR 1st Floor | 3:00-4:30 pm |
| Wednesday, Feb. 12 | Laura Blumenschein | Practice job talk(s) | CDR 1st Floor | 3:00-3:30 pm |
| Wednesday, Feb. 19 | Caitlyn Seim | Accessible Wearable Devices, Vibrotactile Signals for Older Adults, Stimulation for Spasticity | CDR 1st Floor | 3:00-4:00 pm |
| Wednesday, Feb. 26 | Kyle Yoshida Fabio Stroppa | Practice Research Qual or Robosoft Presentation Implementing Shared Autonomy for Soft Robots | CDR 1st Floor | 3:00-4:00 pm |
| Wednesday, Mar. 4 | Yun-Hsuan Su (Melody), Ph.D. candidate, University of Washington | Learning to See Force: Knowledge Discovery and Perception Complementarity in Robot-Assisted Surgery | CDR 1st Floor | 3:00-4:00 pm |
| Friday, Mar. 13 (Note change in day of the week!) | Rotators | Rotator presentations | CDR 2nd Floor or Zoom | 3:00-4:00 pm |
Fall Quarter 2019
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time | Lunch |
| Thurs, Sep. 26 | Allison Okamura Catie | Updates/Rotator Projects Practice Quals Presentation | Bldg. 550, Rm 126 | 12:00-1:00pm (arrive at 11:45 for lunch) | Sophia |
| Thurs, Oct. 3 | Everyone | Lab Clean Up | MERL 126 | 12:00-1:00pm (arrive at 11:45 for lunch) | Zong |
| Thurs, Oct 10 | No Lab Meeting | Allison at NIH Study Section | |||
| Thurs, Oct 17 | No Lab Meeting | Allison at Rising Stars workshop | |||
| Thurs, Oct 24 | Margaret C. and Julie | TRI and Intuitive Internship Reports | Bldg. 550, Rm 126 | 12:00-1:00pm (arrive at 11:45 for lunch) | Cara W |
| Thurs, Oct 31 | Zong Nathan | Update on Visuohaptic Force Estimation Study Practice Green Light Meeting | Bldg. 550, Rm 126 | 12:00-1:00pm (arrive at 11:45 for lunch) | Caitlyn |
| Thurs, Nov 7 | No Lab Meeting | Allison at IROS | |||
| Thurs, Nov 14 | Mine Mike | Research Update Research Update | Bldg. 550, Rm 126 | 12:00-1:00pm (arrive at 11:45 for lunch) | Catie |
| Thurs, Nov 21 | Cara Negin | Research update Research update | Bldg. 550, Rm 126 | 12:00-1:00pm (arrive at 11:45 for lunch) | Julie |
| Thurs, Nov 28 | No Lab Meeting | Thanksgiving Holiday | |||
| Thurs, Dec 5 (note that there are TWO meetings!) | Margaret Coad Rotators | Practice Green Light meeting presentation Rotator presentations | Bldg. 550, Rm 126 Bldg. 550, Rm 200 | 12:00 pm-as needed (arrive at 11:45 for lunch) 3:30-4:30 pm (arrive on time because we have many presentations) | Catie Allison will bring treats to the second meeting |
Spring Quarter 2019
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time | Lunch |
| Friday, April 5th | Allison Okamura Negin Heravi Nathaniel Agharese | Updates/Rotator Projects Practice Quals Talk Practice Quals Talk | CDR 1st Floor | 12:30-1:30pm (arrive at 12:15 for lunch) | Sophia |
| Friday, April 12th | Brian Do Allison | Practice Quals Talk Lab jobs discussion | CDR 1st Floor | 12:30-1:30pm (arrive at 12:15 for lunch) | Cara W. |
| Friday, April 19th | Cole | Proposed study review: Exomuscle for stroke assistance and recovery | CDR 1st Floor | 12:30-1:30pm (arrive at 12:15 for lunch) | Giada |
| Friday, April 26th | Everyone | Lunch Lab Cleaning | CDR 1st Floor MERL 126 | 12:15-1pm 1pm-3pm | Julie |
| Friday, May 3rd | No lab meeting | (Allison out of town) | |||
| Friday, May 10th | Guy Avraham, UC Berkeley | Topic related to sensorimotor control and adaptation (tentative) | CDR 1st Floor | 12:30-1:30pm (arrive at 12:15 for lunch) | Cole |
| Friday, May 17th | Alyssa Novelia (Ph.D. 2018, UC Berkeley) | Mechanics of Soft Robots | CDR 1st Floor | 12:30-1:30pm (arrive at 12:15 for lunch) | Sean |
| Friday, May 24th | Caitlyn Seim (new postdoc) | Wearable Vibrotactile Stimulation: How Passive Stimulation Can Train and Rehabilitate | CDR 1st Floor | 12:30-1:30pm (arrive at 12:15 for lunch) | Darrel |
| Friday, May 31st | Rotators Linus Park | Rotator presentations Otherlab / Pneubotics activities | CDR 1st Floor | 12:30-1:30pm (arrive at 12:15 for lunch) | Margaret K |
Winter Quarter 2019
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Tuesday, Jan. 8 | Allison Okamura Giada Gerboni | Updates/Rotator Projects Practice job talk | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Jan. 15 | Melisa Orta | Practice Green Light | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Jan. 22 | Sean Sketch | Practice Green Light | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Jan. 29 | Mike Salvato | Create/Update your website and help CHARM (bring your laptop) | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Feb. 5 | Dangxiao Wang | Proposal Presentation | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Feb. 12 | Fabio Stroppa | Prior Work | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Feb. 19 | Josey Oquendo | Robot-Assisted Surgical Training in a Complex Virtual Surgical Environment with Divergent and Convergent Force Fields | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Feb. 26 | Mine Sarac | Prior Work | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, March 5 | Darrel Deo | Greenlight meeting practice | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, March 12 | Rotators | Short (~5 minutes per person) presentations of research done in the CHARM lab this quarter | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
Winter Quarter 2019
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Tuesday, Jan. 8 | Allison Okamura Giada Gerboni | Updates/Rotator Projects Practice job talk | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Jan. 15 | Melisa Orta | Practice Green Light | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Jan. 22 | Sean Sketch | Practice Green Light | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Jan. 29 | Mike Salvato | Create/Update your website and help CHARM (bring your laptop) | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Feb. 5 | Dangxiao Wang | Proposal Presentation | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Feb. 12 | Fabio Stroppa | Prior Work | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Feb. 19 | Josey Oquendo | Robot-Assisted Surgical Training in a Complex Virtual Surgical Environment with Divergent and Convergent Force Fields | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, Feb. 26 | Mine Sarac | Prior Work | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, March 5 | Darrel Deo | Greenlight meeting practice | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
| Tuesday, March 12 | Rotators | Short (~5 minutes per person) presentations of research done in the CHARM lab this quarter | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 10:30-11:30 am |
Autumn Quarter 2018
| Date | Presenter | Title | Food Organizer | Location | Time |
| Tuesday, September 25th | Allison Okamura Francisco Valero-Cuevas, Professor at USC | Updates/Rotator Projects Research in the Brain-Body Dynamics Lab at USC | Sophia | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 pm - 1 pm |
| Tuesday, October 9th | Dangxiao Wang, visiting Professor from Beihang University | Introduction of research in the Beihang University Human-Machine Interaction Lab | Margaret K | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 pm - 1 pm |
| Tuesday, October 16th | CANCELLED | ||||
| Tuesday, October 23rd | Margaret Koehler Ajay Mandlekar | Stiffness Control of Soft Robots RoboTurk: A Crowdsourcing Platform for Robotic Skill Learning through Imitation | Sophia | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 pm - 1 pm |
| Tuesday, November 6th | Julie Walker and Margaret Coad | Lessons from Academic Careers Workshops | Mike | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 pm - 1 pm |
| Tuesday, November 13th | CANCELLED (Yuhang's thesis defense is Nov. 14!) | ||||
| Tuesday, November 20th | Jake Suchoski | Greenlight meeting practice talk | Yuhang | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 pm - 1 pm |
| Tuesday, December 4th | All Rotators (TBD) | Rotator Presentations | Cara W | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 pm - 1 pm |
Summer Quarter 2018
No regular summer lab meetings; occasional meetings will be listed below.
| Date | Presenter | Title | Food Organizer | Location | Time |
| Wednesday, July 11th | NA | Carla Pugh Lab Exchange | NA | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Spring Quarter 2018
| Date | Presenter | Title | Food Organizer | Location | Time |
| Monday, Apr 2nd | Allison Okamura Sophia Williams | Autumn kickoff meeting and rotation projects Practice Quals Talk | Zane | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Monday, Apr 9th | Ming Luo (Post-doc) | Pressure-Operated Soft Robots and Cable Driven Origami Robots | Julie | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Monday, Apr 16th | No Lab Meeting | ||||
| Monday, Apr 23rd | Margaret Koehler Julie Walker | Research updates | Sophia | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Monday, Apr 30th | Peter Tass | Providing Tactile Stimulation for Stroke Recovery | Zong | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Monday, May 7th | Cara Nunez Sucho | Practice Quals Talk ICRA Talk | Cara Welker | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Wednesday, May 9th | Everyone (1 min research talk) | Joint Meeting with Steve Collins's Lab | Margaret Koehler | Rm 131, Bldg 520 | 12:30 - 1:30 pm |
| Monday, May 14th | No lab meeting! | ||||
| Monday, May 21st | No lab meeting due to ICRA! | ||||
| Monday, May 28th | No lab meeting due to Memorial Day | ||||
| Monday, June 4th | Rotator project summaries | Mike | Rm 126, Bldg 550 | 12 - 1 pm |
Winter Quarter 2018
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Friday, Jan. 12 | Allison Okamura | Winter kickoff meeting and rotation projects | MERL 203 | 10:30 - 11:30 am |
| Friday, Jan. 19 | No lab meeting | |||
| Friday, Jan. 26 | No lab meeting | |||
| Friday, Feb. 2 | Allison | Report on the "Gender and Robotics" workshop | MERL 203 | 10:30 - 11:30 am |
| Friday, Feb. 9 | Christian Duriez, CHARM Visiting Scholar | Vision-based Sensing of External Force for Soft Robots using Finite Element Model | MERL 203 | 10:30 - 11:30 am |
| Friday, Feb. 16 | Sean & Cole | Advice on making figures | MERL 203 | 10:30 - 11:30 am |
| Friday, Feb. 23 | Nathan Laura | Research update | MERL 203 | 10:30 - 11:30 am |
| Friday, Mar. 2 | Margaret C. Yuhang | Research update | MERL 203 | 10:30 - 11:30 am |
| Friday, Mar. 9 | Carine Rognan, CHARM Visiting student (from EPFL) | How to Integrate Haptic Feedback into FlyJacket (Wearable Drone Controller) | MERL 203 | 10:30 - 11:30 am |
| Friday, Mar. 16 | Rotators | Summary of Winter 2018 rotation projects | MERL 203 | 10:30 - 11:30 am |
Autumn Quarter 2017
| Date | Presenter | Title | Food Organizer | Location | Time |
| Friday, Sep. 29 | Allison Okamura | Autumn kickoff meeting and rotation projects | Sophia | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Friday, Oct. 6 | Stefanos Nikolaidis | CMU PhD student gives talk about his work on human-robot interaction | Mike | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Friday, Oct. 13 | Margot Vulliez Sajid Nisar | Research (haptics) presentation from CNRS, Universit de Poitiers student currently visiting Khatib's group Research (medical robotics) presentation from University of Kyoto student currently visiting CHARM Lab | Cara W. | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Friday, Oct. 20 | No lab meeting | ||||
| Friday, Oct. 27 | Yousi (Josey) Oquendo | Josey Oquendo (current Stanford M.D. student) will describe her prior MS research done at the UPenn GRASP Lab | Laura | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Friday, Nov. 3 | Cara W. | Practice Quals Talk | Margaret C. | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Friday, Nov. 10 | Alessandro Diodato Giada Gerboni - Alessandro Diodato | PhD Research at SSSA Robotic Needle Steering Updates | Matthew | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Friday, Nov. 17 | No lab meeting due to Bay Area Robotics Symposium (register early!) | ||||
| Friday, Nov. 24 | No lab meeting due to Thanksgiving holiday | ||||
| Friday, Dec. 1 | Sharlene Flesher | Intracortical Microsimulation of Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex as a Source of Cutaneous Feedback | Giada G. | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 12 - 1 pm |
| Friday, Dec. 8 | Rotator project summaries | Cara N. | Bldg 520, Rm 131 | 12 - 1 pm |
Summer Quarter 2017
There are no regularly scheduled lab meetings during summer quarter. Any meetings will be listed here as they are planned.
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Monday, Jun. 19 | Allison Okamura | Summer Kickoff Meeting | MERL 203 | 11 am - 12 pm |
| Monday, Jun. 26 - Wednesday Jun. 28 | | Lab Retreat | ||
| Tuesday, August 8 | Mike Salvato | Introduction to Mike's previous work, Conference reports, Lab jobs, and Lab cleanup | 550-126 | 3-5 pm |
Spring Quarter 2017
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Friday, Apr. 7 | Nathan Usevitch Laura Blumenschein | Practice Research Qual Practice Research Qual | 550-126 | 11 am - 12 pm |
| Friday, Apr. 14 | Peter Shull | Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University | 550-126 | 11 am - 12 pm |
| Friday, Apr. 21 | No meeting | - | - | - |
| Friday, Apr. 28 | Nima Enayati Jake Suchoski | Research Updates | 550-126 | 11 am - 12 pm |
| Friday, May 5 | Heather Culbertson Sam Schorr | ACM CHI practice talk ACM CHI practice talk | 550-126 | 11 am - 12 pm |
| Friday, May 12 | Hyung Seok Nam | Visiting physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with a PhD in Robotics | 550-126 | 11 am - 12 pm |
| Friday, May 19 | Jake Suchoski Tania Morimoto Margaret Coad Giada Gerboni | World Haptics workshop practice talk ICRA TRO session practice talk + practice teaser World Haptics practice teaser ICRA practice teaser | 550-126 | 11 am - 12 pm |
| Friday, May 26 | Melisa Orta Margaret Koehler Joey Greer, Cole Simpson, Michael Raitor, Melisa Orta | World Haptics workshop practice talk ICRA workshop practice talk ICRA and World Haptics practice teasers | 1st Floor CDR | 11 am - 12 pm |
| Friday, Jun. 2 | No meeting | - | - | - |
| Friday, Jun. 9 | No meeting | - | - | - |
Winter Quarter 2017
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Friday, Jan. 13 | Allison Okamura | Winter kickoff, rotation projects | 550-126 | 11am-12pm |
| Friday, Jan. 20 | No meeting | - | - | - |
| Friday, Jan. 27 | Julie Walker Allison Okamura | Research Update Report on Davos | 550-126 | 11am-12pm |
| Friday, Feb. 3 | No meeting | (Visit to NASA Ames) | - | - |
| Friday, Feb. 10 | Sean Sketch Margaret Koehler | Research Update (or surprise!) Research Update | 550-126 | 11am-12pm |
| Friday, Feb. 17 | No meeting | - | - | - |
| Friday, Feb. 24 | Nathan Usevitch | Research Update | 550-126 | 10:30-11am (Note change!) |
| Friday, Mar. 3 | No meeting | - | - | - |
| Friday, Mar. 10 | Nima's awesome research talk | Research Update | 550-126 | 11am-12pm |
| Friday, Mar. 17 | Cara Welker Rotators | Research Update Rotator summaries | 550-126 | 11am-12pm |
Autumn Quarter 2016
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Friday, Sept. 30 | Allison Okamura Laura Blumenschein | Autumn kickoff, rotation projects MS research presentation | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:30-2:30 pm |
| Friday, Oct. 7 | Tania Morimoto | Lab equipment & materials tour | MERL 126 | 1:45 pm |
| Friday, Oct. 14 | Giada Gerboni | Novel actuation strategies for flexible and modular multi-DOF instruments for minimally invasive surgery (PhD work at SSSA) | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:45-2:45 pm |
| Friday, Oct. 21 | Yu Sun | On-going projects in Robot Perception and Action Lab (RPAL) @ University of South Florida | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:45-2:45 pm |
| Friday, Oct. 28 | Yasuhisa (Yasu) Kamikawa | Research and product development at Sony | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:45-2:45 pm |
| Friday, Nov. 4 | No meeting | Allison @ Dept. retreat | - | - |
| Friday, Nov. 11 | No meeting | Intuitive Surgical tour for Medical Robotics students | - | - |
| Friday, Nov. 18 | No meeting | Bay Area Robotics Symposium @ Stanford | - | - |
| Friday, Nov. 25 | No meeting | Thanksgiving Holiday | - | - |
| Friday, Dec. 2 | Patrick Slade Yuhang Che | Prosthetics and haptics (UG work at Illinois) Research Update | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:45-2:45 pm |
| Friday, Dec. 9 | Rotators | Autumn quarter research summaries | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:45-2:45 pm |
Spring Quarter 2016
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Tues. April 5 | Giada Gerboni Joey Greer | Needle steering brainstorm | CHARM Lab (MERL 126) | 11:00 AM |
| Tues. April 26 | Yuhang Che | Brainstorming | CHARM Lab (MERL 126) | 11:00 AM |
| Thurs. May 5 | Masashi Nakatani from Keio University | Visiting speaker | Building 550 Room 126 | 11:00 AM |
Winter Quarter 2016
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri. January 8 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. January 15 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. January 22 | Elliot Hawkes | Growing Robots | 550-126 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Fri. January 29 | Jee-Hwan Ryu | Stable Haptic Interaction: How Stiff Can We Display? (Prof. Ryu is a Visiting Professor from KOREATECH who will be here one year starting January 2016) | 550-126 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Fri. February 5 | No Lab Meeting - CHARM's Design Group Happy Hour in the evening instead | Back patio of MERL, between MERL and Santa Teresa St. | 4:00 pm | |
| Fri. February 12 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. February 19 | Jake Suchoski, Allison Okamura | Research update, Watch and discuss Uri Alon's TEDx talk | 550-126 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Fri. February 26 | Margaret Koehler, Melisa Orta | Research update | 550-126 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Fri. March 4 | Darrel Deo, Tania Morimoto | Research update | 550-126 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Fri. March 11 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Thurs. March 24 | Melisa Orta, Julie Walker, Heather Culbertson | Haptics Symposium practice talks Allison's last meeting before leaving for Japan | CDR 1st floor | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Fall Quarter 2015
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Thurs. September 24 | Allison Okamura | Fall kick-off meeting | MERL 203 | 1:30-2:00 pm |
| Thurs. September 24 | Tony Jarc, Intuitive Surgical Inc. | Special Robotics Seminar: "Understanding (and influencing) surgeon behavior during robot-assisted surgery" | MERL 203 | 2:00-3:00 pm |
| Fri.September 25 | No Lab Meeting (SCAN Symposium) | |||
| Fri. October 2 | No Lab Meeting (IROS) | |||
| Fri. October 9 | Heather Culbertson | Presentation of prior work: "Data-Driven Haptic Modeling and Rendering of Realistic Virtual Textured Surfaces" | Bldg. 560 (CDR) 1st floor | 1:30-2:30 pm |
| Fri. October 16 | Andrew Stanley, Allison Okamura | Research update, IROS review | Bldg. 560 (CDR) 1st floor | 1:30-2:30 pm |
| Fri. October 23 | No Lab Meeting (Stanford-Berkeley Robotics Symposium) | |||
| Fri. October 30 | Elliot Hawkes, Lizmarie Comenencia | Research update | Bldg. 560 (CDR) 1st floor | 1:30-2:30 pm |
| Fri. November 6 | Yuhang Che, Julie Walker | Research update | Bldg. 560 (CDR) 1st floor | 1:30-2:30 pm |
| Fri. November 13 | No Lab Meeting (bad luck) | |||
| Fri. November 20 | Sean Sketch, Joey Greer | Research update | Bldg. 560 (CDR) 1st floor | 1:30-2:30 pm |
| Fri. November 27 | No Lab Meeting (Thanksgiving Break) | |||
| Fri. December 4 | Sam Schorr, Cole Simpson | Research update | Bldg. 560 (CDR) 1st floor | 1:30-2:30 pm |
| Fri. December 11 | No Lab Meeting (Final Exams) |
Spring Quarter 2015
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri.April 3 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. April 10 | Kirk Nichols | Research update | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:00-1:45 pm |
| Fri. April 17 | Kamran Shamaei | Research update | CDR 1st Floor (Bldg. 560) | 1:00-1:45 pm |
| Fri. April 24 | Troy Adebar Tania Morimoto | Research updates | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:00-1:45 pm |
| Fri. May 1 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. May 8 | Sean Sketch Julie Walker | Research updates | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 1:00-1:45 pm |
| Fri. May 15 | Joey Greer Margaret Koehler | Research updates | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 12:00-12:45 pm |
| Fri. May 22 | Darrel Deo Yuhang Che | Research updates | CDR (Bldg. 560) 1st floor | 12:00-12:45 pm |
| Fri. May 29 | No Lab Meeting |
Winter Quarter 2015
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri.January 9 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. January 16 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. January 23 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. January 30 | No Lab Meeting | |||
| Fri. February 6 | Colin Ho | Visitors from UC Berkeley to discuss new haptic device research | Peterson (Bldg. 550) 126 | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. February 13 | Andrew | Haptic Jamming Research Update (Note: This is a graduate admissions visit day) | Peterson (Bldg. 550) 126 | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. February 20 | Naoki Wake, grad student at University of Tokyo
Sam | Neurorehabilitation and electrophysiology research in the laboratory of Dr. Hirokazu Takahashi
Practice HRI Talk | Peterson (Bldg. 550) 126 | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. February 27 | Everyone | Lab exchange visits with Jeremy Bailenson's group (Virtual Human Interaction Lab) in Communications | Peterson (Bldg. 550) 126 | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. March 6 | Tania Morimoto | Personalized Medical Robot Design | Peterson (Bldg. 550) 126 | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. March 13 | Joey, Lizmarie
Ting, Douglas, Jacob | Practice Research Qual
Rotator project reports | Peterson (Bldg. 550) 126 | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. March 20 | NO LAB MEETING Finals Week | |||
| Mon. March 23 - Wed. March 25 | Everyone | Lab Retreat | Kirkwood, CA |
Fall Quarter 2014
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri.Sept 26 | Allison | CHARM Lab Intro for new students, ICRA paper submission plans, lab layout and clean up | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. Oct 3 | NO LAB MEETING Robotics Seminar | |||
| Fri. Oct 10 | NO LAB MEETING Neuroscience Institute Symposium | |||
| Fri. Oct 17 | NO LAB MEETING Stanford-Berkeley Robotics Symposium | |||
| Fri. Oct 24 | NO LAB MEETING Robotics Seminar | |||
| Fri. Oct 31 | David Rice, Senseg
Angelica Ruszkowski, University of British Columbia | Demonstration and discussion of Senseg haptic technology
Introduction of Angelica's research in the Robotics and Control Laboratory at UBC | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
| Thu. Nov 6 | Alex Olwal, Google [x], MIT Media Lab, KTH | Extra Seminar, Digital/Physical HCI | CDR (Bldg. 560) downstairs | 12:00-1:00 |
| Fri. Nov 7 | NO LAB MEETING Robotics Seminar | |||
| Fri. Nov 14 | Kamran Shamaei (new postdoc introduction) | Compliant Knee Exoskeletons and their Effects on Gait Biomechanics | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. Nov 21 | NO LAB MEETING Robotics Seminar | |||
| Fri. Nov 28 | NO LAB MEETING, Thanksgiving | |||
| Fri. Dec 5 | NO LAB MEETING Robotics Seminar | |||
| Fri. Dec 12 | NO LAB MEETING Finals Week |
Summer Quarter 2014
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri. August 29 | Allison | Lab logistics and SURI students presentations | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:00-11:30 |
| Wed. July 9 | Allison, Margaret Chapman | Lab logistics and BioRob conference practice presentation | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:00-11:30 |
| Fri. August 1 | Whole lab | Final presentations from Agnes and Alyssa, ICRA paper proposals | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:00-11:30 |
Spring Quarter 2014
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri. April 4 | No lab meeting | Attend Stanford Robotics Seminar | ||
| Fri. April 11 | Allison | Lab logistics (summer people/resources, lab jobs, etc.) | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 12:00-1:30 |
| Fri. April 18 | No lab meeting | Attend Stanford Robotics Seminar | ||
| Fri. April 25 | Allison | We will discuss the Student-Advisor Expectations Scale (provided by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education) | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 12:00-1:30 |
| Fri. May 2 | No lab meeting | Attend Stanford Robotics Seminar | ||
| Fri. May 9 | Allison, Ilana, Melisa, Sean, and Kelly | CHARM writing workshop | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 12:00-1:30 |
| Fri. May 16 | No lab meeting | Attend Stanford Robotics Seminar | ||
| Fri. May 23 | Allison | Ryder Winck ICRA practice talk and grad student professional development topic | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 12:00-1:30 |
| Fri. May 30 | No lab meeting | Attend Stanford Robotics Seminar and then the Haptics Course Demonstrations (1:30-3 pm in Bldg. 550 grove) | ||
| Fri. June 6 | No lab meeting | ICRA Conference |
Winter Quarter 2013
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri. Jan. 10 | Allison | Proposed rotation projects | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-10:55 (note shorter time) |
| Fri. Jan. 17 | ** No meeting this week (Intuitive Surgical conference) ** | |||
| Fri. Jan. 24 | Sean Sketch and Darrel Deo | Haptic Feedback for Improved Control of Brain-Computer Interfaces | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. Jan. 31 | EVERYONE | 2-minute research and skills/tools teasers | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. Feb. 7 | Ilana Nisky | Practice job talk | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
| Tues. Feb. 11 | Special presentation by Dr. Jayant Menon | The Pathophysiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Challenges in Movement and Sensation | MERL 203 | 3:00-4:00 pm |
| Fri. Feb. 14 | ** No meeting this week (prospective graduate student visit day) ** | |||
| Fri. Feb. 21 | Zhan Fan, Nick, Adam | Haptics Symposium practice talks | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. Feb. 28 | Sam Schorr | A comparison of sensory substitution methods used in teleoperation | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
| Fri. Mar. 7 | ** No meeting this week (Allison open lab hours)** | |||
| Fri. Mar. 14 | CHARM Rotators | Short presentations on quarter projects | CDR (Bldg. 560) upstairs | 10:30-12:00 |
Fall Quarter 2013
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri. Sept. 27 | Allison and students
Tricia Gibo | Introduction to CHARM Lab for new students and discussion of potential rotation projects
Practice talk for postdoc interview | MERL (Bld. 660) Rm. 203 | 10:00-11:30am |
| Fri. Oct. 4 | Ryder Winck and Tania Morimoto | Practice talks for ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference | MERL (Bld. 660) Rm. 203 | 10:00-11:30am |
| Fri. Oct. 11 | No Meeting -- Stanford-Berkeley Robotics Symposium @ Berkeley | |||
| Fri. Oct. 18 | No Meeting -- Allison traveling to EPFL/ETHZ | |||
| Fri. Oct. 25 | Yoshi Kuroda
Margaret Chapman, Sean Sketch, Ian Flader | Recent research results, including large-deformable finite element model with haptic interaction
Presentation of NSF GRFP proposal ideas | MERL (Bld. 660) Rm. 203 | 10:00-11:30am |
| Fri. Nov. 1 | Tania Morimoto | Group Hapkit kit assembly and quality control | MERL (Bld. 660) Rm. 203 | 10:00-11:30am |
| Fri. Nov. 8 | No Meeting -- Allison traveling to Mt. Sinai Neurosurgery Simulation Symposium | |||
| Fri. Nov. 15 | Tricia Gibo | Thesis defense practice: "Control and Learning of Dynamics in Human Movement" | MERL (Bld. 660) Rm. 203 | 10:00-11:30am |
| Fri. Nov. 22 | Todd Farrell | Pattern Classification of Terrain During Amputee Walking (review of Ph.D. work -- Todd is a recent graduate of Hugh Herr's lab at MIT) | MERL (Bld. 660) Rm. 203 | 10:00-11:30am |
| Fri. Dec. 6 | Sean Sketch and Darrel Deo, visitors from Shenoy and Henderson groups
Rotators | Haptic Feedback for Improved Control of Brain-Computer Interfaces
Short overviews of rotation research projects | MERL (Bld. 660) Rm. 203 | 10:00-11:30am |
Summer Quarter 2013
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Mon. July 1 | Everyone | Moving major equipment to MERL 126 | MERL 126 | 2:00-4:00pm |
| Wed. July 10 through Fri. July 12 | Everyone | Lab retreat! | Lake Tahoe Cabin | all days |
| Wed. July 24 | David Zarrouk, Ph.D. | Worm robot locomotion in flexible environment: one step forward and three back | MERL 203 | 1-2 pm |
| Tues. July 30 | James Biggs and Colin Swindells | Activities and research collaboration interests at Artificial Muscle | MERL 203 | 10-11:30 am |
| Thurs. August 29 | Everyone | Lab exchange meeting, lunch, and lab walk-through with David Camarillo's Lab | MERL 203 | 11 am-1 pm |
Spring Quarter 2013
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri. April 5 | Andrew Stanley, Zhan Fan Quek, and Ann Majewicz | Practice talk for and teasers for World Haptics Conference | 550-126 | 9:30-10:15 am (note admit day lab tours from 10:15am-12:15pm) |
| Fri. April 12 | LAB MEETING CANCELLED -- World Haptics Conference | |||
| Fri. April 19 | Allison Okamura
Kirk Nichols | Practice TEDx talk and record video segments
Practice teaser for ICRA conference | 550-126 | 10:00-11:30 am |
| Fri. April 26 | Mike Rinderknecht
Sam Schorr and Ilana Nisky | Overview of research activities during Stanford visit
Practice talks and teasers for ICRA conference | 550-126 | 10:00-11:30 am |
| Fri. May 3 | Jung Kim (visitor from KAIST) | Research in the KAIST Biorobotics lab (http://medev.kaist.ac.kr) | 550-126 | 10:00-11:30 am |
| Fri. May 10 | Nasir Bhanpuri (visitor from USC Sanger Lab) | Cortical excitation due to deep brain stimulation in childhood dystonia | 550-126 | 10:00-11:30 am |
| Fri. May 17 | Ali Shahdi | A tutorial on Matlab SimMechanicsToolbox | 550-126 | 10:00-11:30 am |
| Fri. May 24 | LAB MEETING CANCELLED -- Allison off campus for panel | |||
| Fri. May 31 | Walter Mok
Michele Rotella | Planning for lab tours on July 25 and August 8
Update on isometric reaching generalization study | 550-126 | 10:00-11:30 am |
Winter Quarter 2013
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri. Jan. 11 | Ryder Winck | Overview of Ph.D. research at GaTech -- Dissertation: Simultaneous control of coupled actuators using singular value decomposition and semi-nonnegative matrix factorization | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am |
| Fri. Jan. 18 | Instead of lab meeting this week, please attend talks by Russ Taylor (Jan. 16) and Ken Goldberg (Jan. 17) | |||
| Fri. Jan. 25 | Flip Sabes | Research on Sensorimotor Integration and Learning in the Sabes Lab at UCSF | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am (lunch in CDR afterward) |
| Fri. Feb. 1 | Jim Gwilliam | Tactile Sensing and Display for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery: Detecting Lumps in Soft Tissue | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am |
| Fri. Feb. 8 | LAB MEETING CANCELLED -- Allison at JHU | |||
| Fri. Feb. 15 | Pablo Garcia, Tom Low, and Richard Mahoney Prof. Sadao Omata, Nihon University | Robotics research at SRI Haptic Medical Technology | MERL 203 10-11 am, CDR (Bldg. 560) first floor 12-2 pm | SRI presentation 10:00-11:00 am, Lab tours 11:00-12:15 pm, Lunch 12:15-1:00 pm, Dr. Omata presentation 1:00-2:00 pm |
| Fri. Feb. 22 | LAB MEETING CANCELLED -- MMVR Conference | |||
| Fri. Mar. 1 | Ali Shahdi | Overview of previous research -- Dissertation: Model-based predictive control for improving stability and transparency in time-delay teleoperation | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am |
| Fri. Mar. 8 | LAB MEETING CANCELLED -- DARPA Phoenix public day | |||
| Fri. Mar. 15 | Tania Morimoto, Erin Watson, Sean Sketch, Ashley Fletcher, Mark Stauber, Dustin Gerrard, others? | Reports on rotation projects | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am |
Fall Quarter 2012
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Wed. Sept. 19 | Ilana Nisky | Analysis of surgeon arm posture variability in RAS | MERL 203 | 9:30-11:00 AM |
| Friday Sep. 28 | Allison Okamura + All | Lab overview and potential rotation projects | MERL 203 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
| Friday Oct. 5 | Kirk Nichols | Autonomous robotic palpation: Machine learning techniques to identify hard inclusions in soft tissues | MERL 203 | 2:00 - 2:50 PM |
| Friday Oct. 12 | Nick Colonnese | Describing encoder error | MERL 203 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
| Friday Oct. 19 | NO MEETING -- NRI-Large meeting in SF | |||
| Friday Oct. 26 | TBD | Presentation of NSF GRFP proposal ideas | MERL 203 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
| Friday Nov. 2 | NO MEETING -- Allison at EPFL and ETH | |||
| Friday Nov. 9 | NO MEETING -- Allison at a meeting | |||
| Friday Nov. 16 | Tom Wedlick | Defense Practice Talk | MERL 203 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
| Friday Nov. 30 | Tricia Gibo | Impedance control: Effects of age and cerebellar damage | CDR (Bldg. 560) 2nd floor | 12:00 - 1:30 PM (note special time -- lunch provided!) |
| Friday Dec. 7 | Mike Rinderknecht | Tendon vibration and virtual reality for hand rehabilitation based on illusory movements | MERL 203 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
Summer Quarter 2012
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Tues. Jun. 19 | Allison et al. Akin Sisbot | Introductions and lab business Toyota InfoTechnology Center | MERL 129 MERL 203 | 1:15-2:30 pm |
| Wed. Jun. 27 | Allison et al.
Yoshihiro Kuroda | Lab business Development of pseudo haptic glove and prior estimation method of motion for collaborative haptics. | MERL 203 | 9:30-11:00 am |
| Fri. July 6 | Nick Colonnese Ozkan Celik, Asst. Prof. of Mechanical Engineering, SF State | RSS practice talk (~5 mins) Neuromuscular Mechanisms of Movement Variability: Implications for Rehabilitation and Augmentation | MERL 203 | 9:30-11:00 am |
| Wed. July 18 | Micah Yairi, CTO and VP of engineering, Tactus Technology | Tactus Technology | MERL 203 | 2:00-3:30 pm |
| Thurs. August 2 | Allison and Zhan Fan | Lab business | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:00 am |
| Wed. August 15 | Sam Schorr Allison Okamura | Projet rapid prototyping machine Discussion: Haptics for online education | MERL 203 | 9:30-11:00 am |
| Wed. August 22 | Margaret Koehler,
Denis Lin | SURI Project Presentations | MERL 203 | 2:00-3:30 pm |
| Wed. August 29 | Chris Ullrich, VP of UX, Immersion | Immersion | MERL 203 | 9:30-11:00 am |
| Wed. Sept. 12 | Michele Rotella | Rehabilitation Research and Project Ideas | MERL 203 | 9:30-11:00 am |
| Wed. Sept. 19 | Ilana Nisky | Analysis of surgeon arm posture variability in RAS | MERL 203 | 9:30-11:00 am |
Spring 2012
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time |
| Fri. Apr. 6 | Jared Muirhead | Surface Haptics | Bldg 550, Rm 126 | 9:30am-10:00am (note short time) |
| Fri. Apr. 13 | Everyone | Lab logistics -- we'll review lab jobs, then do a lab organization/clean up session | Bldg 550, Rm 126 | 9:30am-11:00am |
| Fri. Apr. 20 | Nick Colonnese | Quantization effects for velocity and acceleration signals | Bldg 550, Rm 126 | 9:45am-11:00am (note slightly later time) |
| Fri. Apr. 27 | Everyone | Useful research resources and skills: machine shops, drawing, writing, etc. | Bldg 550, Rm 126 | 9:30am-11:00am |
| Fri. May 4 | No meeting | Allison out of town (University of Washington) | ||
| Fri. May 11 | Everyone | Brief update | Bldg 550, Rm 126 | 9:30am-11:00am |
| Fri. May 18 | No meeting | Allison, Ann, and Tom out of town (ICRA conference) | ||
| Fri. May 25 | Troy Adebar Pierre Renaud, Strasbourg University | BioRob Practice Talk Guest research talk | Bldg 550, Rm 126 | 9:30am-11:00am |
| Fri. Jun. 1 | Tom Wedlick | BioRob Practice Talk ++ | Bldg 550, Rm 126 | 9:30am-11:00am |
| Fri. Jun. 8 | No meeting | Allison out of town (Harvard) |
Winter 2012
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time | Minutes |
| Friday Jan. 13 | Dana Damian and Taylor Newton | Research Update: Economical artificial skin for upper-limb prostheses | Bldg. 550, Room 126 | 10:00am-12:00pm | |
| Friday Jan. 20 | Allison Okamura | Lab materials | Bldg. 550, Room 126 | 10:00am-10:50am | |
| Friday Jan. 27 | Ilana Nisky | MMVR 2012 Talk + The Role of Surgeon Perceptuomotor Performance in Robot-Assisted Surgery | Bldg. 550, Room 126 | 10:00am-11:30am | |
| Friday Feb. 3 | Ilana Nisky | The Role of Surgeon Perceptuomotor Performance in Robot-Assisted Surgery - continued | Bldg. 550, Room 126 | 10:00am-11:30am | |
| Friday Feb. 10 | Fidel Hernandez III | Assisted Navigation of Unstable Virtual Paths | Bldg. 550, Room 126 | 10:00am-11:30am | |
| Friday Feb. 17 | Kirk Nichols Michele "Mi-Ro" Rotella | 2012 Haptics Symposium Talk 2012 Haptics Symposium Talk (HAPI Bands: A Haptic Augmented Posture Interface) | Bldg. 550, Room 126 | 11:00am-12:00pm (note time change) | |
| Friday Feb. 24 | NO LAB MEETING | (TTI/Vanguard lab tours) | |||
| Friday Mar. 2 | Andrew Stanley Jim Gwilliam | 2012 Haptics Symposium Talk 2012 Haptics Symposium Talk (Design and Control of an Air-Jet Lump Display) | Bldg. 550, Room 126 | 10:00am-11:30am | |
| Friday Mar. 9 | NO LAB MEETING | (Allison likely to be out) | |||
| Friday Mar. 16 | Ann Majewicz and Andrew Stanley | TBD | Bldg. 550, Room 126 | 10:00am-11:30am |
Fall 2011
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time | Meeting Minutes (internal) |
| 9/28/2011 | No Meeting | IROS Conference! | |||
| 10/05/2011 | Ann Majewicz (~20 min) Netta Gurari | Lab Computing Characterization and Enhancement of Haptic Sensing using Custom Haptic Systems | MERL 203 | 1:30-3:00 | |
| 10/12/2011 | Allison Okamura (~15 min) Troy Adebar | How to review a paper A Robotic System for Intraoperative Transrectal Ultrasound in Prostatectomy | MERL 203 | 1:30-3:00 | |
| 10/19/2011 | Students applying for fellowships (Rob, Sam, Fidel, Jared, Taylor) | Discussion of NSF Fellowship research project ideas | MERL 203 | 1:30-3:00 | |
| 10/26/2011 | Prof. Will Provancher | A presentation on research in the Haptics and Embedded Mechatronics Laboratory at the University of Utah | MERL 203 | 1:30-3:00 | |
| 11/02/2011 | Ann Majewicz | SVN Tutorial and practice presentation for IEEE chapter meeting (overview of CHARM lab research) | MERL 203 | 1:30-3:00 | |
| 11/09/2011 | Netta Gurari (~20 min) Stefano Galvan and Francesca Pizzorni | Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position -- Overview of Rice NSF ADVANCE Workshop Presentations on haptics and medical imaging by researchers from the University of Verona | MERL 203 | 1:30-3:00 | |
| 11/16/2011 | No Meeting | Allison is out | |||
| 11/23/2011 | No Meeting | Thanksgiving | |||
| 11/30/2011 | Zhan Fan Quek (~10 min) Nick Colonnese | Improvements to the HAPI Bands system Stability analysis for haptic displays, to be continued... | MERL 203 | 1:30-3:00 | |
| 12/07/2011 | Tricia Gibo (~20 min) Nick Colonnese | Practice talk for Sensorimotor research day at JHU Stability analysis for haptic displays, continued! | MERL 203 | 1:30-3:00 |
Summer 2011
| Date | Presenter | Title | Location | Time | Meeting Minutes (internal) |
| 8/10/2011 | Dr. Ankeet Udani (Anesthesiology), Allison Okamura | Head Mounted Display Summary of CHARM Lab Work | Peterson | 10:00-11:30 am | |
| 8/17/2011 | Pete Shull Jim Gwilliam | Wearable Haptic Feedback for Stroke Rehab Characterization of an Air Jet Haptic Lump Display | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am | |
| 8/24/2011 | Danilo De Lorenzo Dana Damian | Force Feedback for Needle Insertion Skin Stimulation Apparatus | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am | |
| 8/31/2011 | No Meeting | ||||
| 9/7/2011 | Allison Okamura | Lab Logistics | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am | |
| 9/14/2011 | No Meeting | ||||
| 9/21/2011 | Ilana Nisky | Perception and action in teleoperated and virtual environments | MERL 203 | 10:00-11:30 am |