The School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks hosts weekly seminars in the Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 12, or ISTB 12, on the Polytechnic campus at ASU. Open to the public, these seminars feature speakers at the forefront of manufacturing disciplines and applications.
About Heni Ben Amor is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where he leads the ASU Interactive Robotics Laboratory. He was also a visiting faculty research scientist at Google DeepMind from 2023 to 2024. Ben Amor has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, a Daimler and Benz Foundation…
About Albert To is the William Kepler Whiteford Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also serves as director of the ANSYS Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory. He is the founding director of the MOST-AM Consortium, a public-private collaboration of more than 30 organizations formed to…
About Natural swarms use simple rules to generate complex, coordinated behaviors on land, in the air and under the sea. Their robustness to failure, uncertainty and other disruptions makes them useful models for designing synthetic and robotic swarms. A key challenge is controlling emergent swarm patterns to achieve mission goals without tightly engineering individual agents….
About Sean B. Andersson earned a bachelor’s degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University in 1994, a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1995 and a doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003. Before pursuing his doctoral degree, Andersson worked at…
About Hannah Budinoff is an assistant professor of systems and industrial engineering at the University of Arizona. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona. Her research interests include automated geometric manufacturability analysis with a focus…
About Venkata Rani is a doctoral student in robotics and autonomous systems in the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. His research focuses on language-driven robot control and fine-grained multimodal understanding for robotics and industrial automation. He develops methods for code generation…
In this talk, Kim will argue that advances in design, manufacturing and materials are central to expanding the motion capabilities of miniature robots.
About Minglei Qu is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a graduate faculty member of materials science and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by…
About Fatemeh Elhambakhsh is a doctoral student in the data science, analytics and engineering program at Arizona State University. She earned a Master of Science in industrial engineering with a concentration in systems optimization from Iran University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on generative AI and multimodal learning for engineering design and manufacturing….