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2024/11/1: Project LASSIE-M (Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments - Improving Mars Exploration) received $1.4-million technology development funds from NASA's Mars Exploration Program (MEP)! Looking forward to more exciting science and technology development!
2024/6/17: Team LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments) successfully completed the 2nd field testing at Mt Hood, OR! Check out media coverage by Northwest Public Broadcasting: "How a dog-like robot is training for space exploration on Mount Hood"
2024/4/3: Our LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments) project was featured by CBS News - Los Angeles, BBC, CBC, Reuters, IEEE Spectrum, Wired (Spanish version), and NPR Weekend Edition!
2024/3/14: Team LASSIE performed a successful robot demo at the 2024 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), demonstrating our robots' capability to sense regolith forces from their legs during walking, and use the sensed forces to infer geotechnical properties of the regolith!
2023/11/1: Our TRUSSES (Temporarily, Robots Unite to Surmount Sandy Entrapments, Then Separate) project, in collaboration with UPenn, received a $2 million grant from NASA, to develop a multi-robot system that can collectively traverse extreme planetary surfaces!
2023/9/12: Congratulations to RoboLAND undergrad researcher, Ethan Fulcher, for receiving the 2023 Provost's Research Fellowship!
2023/8/12: Team LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments) successfully completed the field testing at Mt Hood, OR! USC team (Ethan Fulcher, John Bush, Shipeng Liu, Yifeng Zhang, Feifei Qian) and collaborators successfully tested sensing and locomotion of legged robots on icy regolith and snow/ice patches at the field site! Excellent job team!
2023/7/26: RoboLAND researchers and robots enjoyed a beach day at Manhattan beach! See robot testing video from previous trips on Viterbi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CumhUe6rW6W/?img_index=1
2023/6/24: John Bush's presentation “Robotic Legs as Novel Planetary Instrumentation to Explore the Mechanical Properties of Regolith" was selected to receive the Honorable Mention for the Stephen E. Dwornik Planetary Geoscience Undergraduate Poster Presentation Award at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Congratulations John!
2023/5/10: Prof. Qian received the NSF CAREER award, titled "CAREER: Utilizing Physical Interactions to Improve Legged Mobility on Challenging Terrains". This work seeks to develop methods that can enable robots to actively "harvest" environment interaction forces to produce agile movements in natural, complex environments.
2023/3/13: Team LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments) completed the 1st field testing at White Sands, NM! USC team (John Bush, Ethan Fulcher, Shipeng Liu, Yifeng Zhang, Feifei Qian) successfully tested sensing and locomotion of quadrupedal robots and direct-drive robotic legs at the field site! Excellent job team!
2023/3/9: Xingjue Liao, Haodi Hu, and Boyuan Huang presented their exciting research at APS Robophysics!
2022/8/1: Project LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments) led by Prof. Qian is awarded $3-million grant from NASA!
2022/6/14: Congratulations to Kaustav Chakraborty and Haodi Hu for their paper, "Planning of Obstacle-aided Navigation for Multi-legged Robots using a Sampling-based Method over Directed Graphs", accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
2022/5/2: Congratulations to Jake Futterman for winning the 1st prize in the undergraduate symposium!
2021/12/17: Congratulations to Shipeng for successfully presenting at the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting!
2021/12/5: Congratulations to Jake Futterman and his team (Remedy) for winning the 2nd place ($5K prize) at the ATHENA Pitch Competition!
2021/6/4: Congratulations to John Bush for receiving REU research stipend to develop terrain-sensing leg systems in Summer 2021!
2021/4/27: Congratulations to Elijah Yap for receiving the 2021 Provost's Research Fellowship!
2020/11/1: We have moved into new lab spaces in RTH and EEB! Please email Prof. Qian (feifeiqi@usc.edu) if you want to contribute to our project!
2023/3/9: Xingjue Liao, Haodi Hu, and Boyuan Huang presented their exciting research at APS Robophysics!
2022/8/1: Project LASSIE (Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments) led by Prof. Qian is awarded $3-million grant from NASA!
2022/6/14: Congratulations to Kaustav Chakraborty and Haodi Hu for their paper, "Planning of Obstacle-aided Navigation for Multi-legged Robots using a Sampling-based Method over Directed Graphs", accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
2022/5/2: Congratulations to Jake Futterman for winning the 1st prize in the undergraduate symposium!
2021/12/17: Congratulations to Shipeng for successfully presenting at the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting!
2021/12/5: Congratulations to Jake Futterman and his team (Remedy) for winning the 2nd place ($5K prize) at the ATHENA Pitch Competition!
2021/6/4: Congratulations to John Bush for receiving REU research stipend to develop terrain-sensing leg systems in Summer 2021!
2021/4/27: Congratulations to Elijah Yap for receiving the 2021 Provost's Research Fellowship!
2020/11/1: We have moved into new lab spaces in RTH and EEB! Please email Prof. Qian (feifeiqi@usc.edu) if you want to contribute to our project!
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